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Week 6 fixtures

Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2 Arsenal
Everton 1-0 Ipswich Town
Newcastle United 2-1 Hull City

FA Challenge Cup second qualifying round
Merthyr Town 1-2 Truro City
Stafford Rangers 1-2 Hereford w/I Bent My Wookie

Scottish Premiership
Celtic 1-1 Rangers (Sunday 12:00)

Serie A
Roma 1-2 Inter (17:00)
Fiorentina 0-1 Napoli (Sunday 11:30)

Ligue 1
Olympique de Marseille 1-2 Paris St Germain (Sunday 19:45)

A Primeira Liga
Porto 1-2 Benfica (Sunday 20:30)

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Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion 2-2 Arsenal
Everton 3-1 Ipswich Town
Newcastle United 1-1 Hull City

FA Cup Second Qualifying Round
Merthyr Town 2-1 Truro City
Stafford Rangers 1-0 Hereford w/Bent My Wookie

Scottish Premiership
Celtic 1-2 Rangers 

Serie A
Roma 0-1 Internazionale
Fiorentina 0-3 Napoli 

Ligue Un
Marseille 0-0 Paris Saint-Germain 

A Primeira Liga
Porto 2-0 SL e Benfica

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Week 6 fixtures

Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion 0-2 Arsenal
Everton 2-1 Ipswich Town
Newcastle United 3-1 Hull City

FA Challenge Cup second qualifying round
Merthyr Town 1-3 Truro City
Stafford Rangers 2-2 Hereford w/I Bent My Wookie

Scottish Premiership
Celtic 3-1 Rangers (Sunday 12:00)

Serie A
Roma 2-2 Inter (17:00)
Fiorentina 1-2 Napoli (Sunday 11:30)

Ligue 1
Olympique de Marseille 2-3 Paris St Germain (Sunday 19:45)

A Primeira Liga
Porto 2-1 Benfica (Sunday 20:30)

 
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1st in the table, barely conceded a goal, won 6-0 last week and I'm trying to convince you that we may not win to get any bonus points at all...what a D2D when I thought we may be relegation candidates

 

Week 6 fixtures

Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion 0-1 Arsenal

Everton 3-1 Ipswich Town

Newcastle United 0-1 Hull City

FA Challenge Cup second qualifying round

Merthyr Town 1-3 Truro City

Stafford Rangers 0-4 Hereford w/I Bent My Wookie

Scottish Premiership

Celtic 0-2 Rangers (Sunday 12:00) (physically ill by this prediction) 

Serie A

Roma 2-1 Inter (17:00)

Fiorentina 0-1 Napoli (Sunday 11:30)

Ligue 1

Olympique de Marseille 1-3 Paris St Germain (Sunday 19:45)

A Primeira Liga

Porto 2-1 Benfica (Sunday 20:30)

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Week 6 fixtures

Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-1 Arsenal
Everton 1-0 Ipswich Town
Newcastle United 0-0 Hull City

FA Challenge Cup second qualifying round
Merthyr Town 0-2 Truro City
Stafford Rangers 0-2 Hereford w/I Bent My Wookie

Scottish Premiership
Celtic 2-2 Rangers (Sunday 12:00)

Serie A
Roma 1-2 Inter (17:00)
Fiorentina 0-1 Napoli (Sunday 11:30)

Ligue 1
Olympique de Marseille 0-2 Paris St Germain (Sunday 19:45)

A Primeira Liga
Porto 2-0 Benfica (Sunday 20:30)

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Week 6 fixtures

Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion 0-2 Arsenal
Everton 1-1 Ipswich Town
Newcastle United 1-1 Hull City

FA Challenge Cup second qualifying round
Merthyr Town 0-1 Truro City
Stafford Rangers 1-2 Hereford w/I Bent My Wookie

Scottish Premiership
Celtic 2-1 Rangers (Sunday 12:00)

Serie A
Roma 1-1 Inter (17:00)
Fiorentina 1-2 Napoli (Sunday 11:30)

Ligue 1
Olympique de Marseille 0-2 Paris St Germain (Sunday 19:45)

A Primeira Liga
Porto 2-1 Benfica (Sunday 20:30

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Balls. 

Scottish Premiership
Celtic 1  v 2 Rangers (Sunday 12:00)


Fiorentina 1 v 2 Napoli (Sunday 11:30)

Ligue 1
Olympique de Marseille 0 v 2 Paris St Germain (Sunday 19:45)

A Primeira Liga
Porto 1 v 1 Benfica (Sunday 20:30)

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On 9/18/2026 at 7:14 PM, I Bent My Wookie said:

1st in the table, barely conceded a goal, won 6-0 last week and I'm trying to convince you that we may not win 

And that's why we love football. Stafford Rangers did indeed cause the upset of the round, winning 3-2 to knock The Bulls out at the earliest possible hurdle. You're right that it perhaps not the best choice of D2D fixture since you'd have only got four more points even if Hereford had gone through, but it was definitely a more interesting pick than any league fixture would've been. As for feeling "physically sick" at the Old Firm prediction? Well, you've gotta go with your head sometimes and not your heart.

Anyhow, the results were up in the opening post on Sunday night, and the table was updated soon after that, complete with the draw for the FPL Cup on the right-hand side. It was based on a seeding system using performances in both competitions last season, but I've put the groups into alphabetical order to disguise that somewhat. I had considered one big "Swiss system" (i.e. new European League phase-style) group of 10, but with our usual "crosspools" clashes in odd-numbered groups it'll likely produce a similar outcome regardless.

We'd need a few dozen more frequent players for me to consider actual divisions so there's no relegation as such, but if Stinky Dad is now worried about the wooden spoon then he's in good company because it seems reigning Double holder Vegeta has decided to join him. The gap there is now four points, just one fewer than at the top where Gooner still leads and three people are level on 40 points as his nearest challengers. Despite being best performer for the round, Rory isn't among them but he does at least make it into the top half of the standings.

The randomly selected "wildcard" fixture was, strangely enough, once again match #10 which took place at the Estádio do Dragão where the home side triumphed by threeOn  goals to one. Nobody managed the exact scoreline, but half a dozen participants took an extra bonus point each. Elsewhere, victories for Everton and PSG generally proved fruitful, but score draws in Italy and at Penydarren Park produced more of a mixed bag of guesses, while reverses on the road for title-chasing Arsenal and Hull caught most people out.

On reflection, should've possibly included the fash-on-fash* Madrid derby instead of that tie in Merthyr, but adding a game from yet another league makes things untidy. Truro have since won the replay to keep alive hopes of a highly rare appearance by a Cornish side in the First Round proper. As promised, the final stats for D2D picks which total more than thirty despite no overlap, because one person sent more than three teams in just in case (I do always say I need a minimum of three teams, to be fair):

Spoiler

A dozen sides are from England, four come from elsewhere in the Home Nations, and ten are from further afield in Europe which leaves five from the rest of the world. Three are national teams so a whopping 28 are club sides. There's a similar bias towards men's teams with the exact same ratio, and in both cases there are no first picks from either category. Of the internationals, one plays in Nations League A, another is in League C and the third is from a continent that hasn't set up a Nations League yet.

Sixteen of the 28 club teams play in their country's top flight, three are in their respective second tiers, and two are in the third division meaning a whopping seven ply their trade in a level even below that.

One person's first choice has been rejected, for remarkably similar reasons to somebody else's second choice from last season (despite said pick hailing from a completely different continent). We've also had to skip over a further second pick this campaign for reasons I'll explain nearer the time, but in principle eight of you should get your first and second choices which I don't think is a bad hit rate at all.

That's mainly in spoiler tags for reasons of space, by the way. It still doesn't give too much away. Right, high time we put a new lot of encounters into the original post, including the first tranche of FPL Cup group clashes. See you all there.

*Not as in Justin vs John. Figure it out

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Slovenia 2-0 Scotland (Saturday 14:00)
England 1--1 Spain (Saturday 19:45)
Denmark 2-1 Wales (17:00)
Gibraltar 0-0 Andorra (17:00)
Israel 1-2 Ireland
Norway 3-2 Portugal
Belgium 0-2 France
Northern Ireland 0-1 Hungary (Monday)
Sweden 3-0 Poland (Monday)

Women's Super League
Liverpool 1-1 Everton (14:00)

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Week 7 fixtures

UEFA Nations League

Slovenia 0-2 Scotland (Saturday 14:00)
England 1-2 Spain (Saturday 19:45)
Denmark 2-0 Wales (17:00)
Gibraltar 0-1 Andorra (17:00)
Israel 1-0 Ireland
Norway 1-2 Portugal
Belgium 1-3 France
Northern Ireland 1-2 Hungary (Monday)
Sweden 1-2 Poland (Monday)

Women's Super League
Liverpool 2-1 Everton (14:00)

NB All games kick off on Sunday and at 7:45pm unless stated. Times are given in BST. 

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Week 7 fixtures

UEFA Nations League

Slovenia 1-1 Scotland (Saturday 14:00)
England 1-1 Spain (Saturday 19:45)
Denmark 2-1 Wales (17:00)
Gibraltar 2-1 Andorra (17:00)
Israel 1-2 Ireland
Norway 2-2 Portugal
Belgium 1-2 France
Northern Ireland 1-2 Hungary (Monday)
Sweden 2-1 Poland (Monday)

Women's Super League
Liverpool 2-0 Everton (14:00)

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UEFA Nations League

Slovenia 2-1 Scotland 
England 0-2 Spain 
Denmark 3-1 Wales 
Gibraltar 1-1 Andorra 
Israel 0-3 Ireland (in Debrecen)
Norway 1-0 Portugal
Belgium 2-2 France
Northern Ireland 0-1 Hungary 
Sweden 1-2 Poland 

Women's Super League
Liverpool 0-0 Everton

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