The Weekly Review

Gameweek 10: The Awakening of Mike

Gameweek 10 review · 37.5-point league average · one red card · one man's chosen scorer is officially the last of all

Headline: Mike remembers how to do this

Ten weeks of 29s and 31s, and then 67, out of nowhere. That's the best score of the week, the second-best of the season (only Will's 89 in GW5 beats it), and 23 more than Mike's previous best of 44.

Ødegaard got 11, and Trafford and Muharemović 10 apiece. Isak and Dewsbury-Hall both scored, and Mike's whole XI registered points. He moves up one place to 7th, which is modest, but it was his first YCC game and he used it to beat James 67–20. You can't call that a win. It's a crime scene.

The top: Will is getting comfortable

Will put up 51 and stays top on 352, 28 points ahead of Chris (35 this week, 324 total). Groß got 10, Cherki got 9 and scored, and nobody in the side really failed. He also took care of Jonny Breeze 51–29 in the YCC. On this form the chasing pack needs Will to have a bad week, not just a good one of their own.

Climber of the week: Gurj (6th → 4th)

Barry scored twice and got 16 points, the best single player return of the week. Konsa added 8, and Gurj's 50 jumps him two places. He also won his YCC away game at Chris's, 50–35.

Faller of the week: James (4th → 5th)

Twenty points. That's the week's lowest score and James's worst of the season. Haaland got 2, Gvardiol and Suzuki got nothing between them, and his top scorer was Murillo with 4. A week earlier James was looking at the top three, and now Gurj has gone past him. Then there was the 67–20 against Mike. Rough week.

🔴 Fine watch

• Ben: Chosen scorer, Šeško. Bruno Fernandes finally scored for Col, which left Šeško as the only chosen scorer in the league without a goal, and that makes Ben the last one standing. Ben currently has Šeško loaned out. He got rid of his own chosen scorer and still gets fined for him. Poetry.
• Rik: Red card, Thiago. Sent off, −2 points, and a fiver. Vuskovic put up 12 at the other end of the squad to make up for it, but Rik still slips from 7th to 8th.
• Jonny Breeze: Squires muse, Jackson. N. Jackson scored, got 11 points, and still picked up a fine for him. Even the good news comes with paperwork.

Bottom of the pile

Ben's 37 actually beat four people this week, and Le Fée (11) did his job. He's still bottom on 177, 52 behind Col in 9th. Jonny Wild had 23 and lost his YCC tie 37–23 to Col (Wirtz 13, Fernandes 10). Saka and Semenyo blanked, Davis got −1, and Evanilson was the only real contributor.

YCC round 1 results

Next up (GW11): Chris v Ben · Gurj v Jonny Wild · James v Rik · Mike v Will: last week's hottest team against the leader.

International break. GW10 doesn't officially end until the 21st. Use the fortnight to think about what you've done, James.