Goal Cup Update - Santa Cruz is coming to town
This week's top scoring players were Barcelona's resurgent Samuel Eto'o and Blackburn's Paraguayan goalscoring sensation Roque Santa Cruz.
The two newest Goal Cup heroes notched nine points each. Eto'o scored a Champions League goal as Barcelona romped to a 3-1 win against Stuttgart, before grabbing two league goals against Valencia at the weekend.
Santa Cruz scored a hat-trick away from home against Wigan Athletic, as well as spurning two more glorious chances, and still somehow ended up on the losing side, as Rovers crumbled to a 5-3 defeat against their north-west rivals.
Johan Elmander of Toulouse kept up his remarkable recent run of form by grabbing eight Goal Cup points, scoring twice as his side beat PSG away from home. The flying Swede now has 7 goals in The Goal Cup, and is ranked seventh among strikers.
More injuries struck the Goal Cup this week. After Didier Drogba and Thierry Henry were crocked last week, Leo Messi and John Terry both picked up bad injuries this week.
Barcelona's Messi is the Goal Cup's most popular player, featuring in over 20,000 teams, but he won't be scoring any points for a while. The Argentine has torn a thigh muscle, and will be out for at least a month. From Robinho to Blaise N'Kufo, every Goal Cup player has a wealth of choices to replace the young superstar.
England captain Terry has broken three bones in his foot, and is expected to miss the next six weeks of action, so it's time to ship him out. Surely John Arne Riise is due a goal for Liverpool? Or perhaps it's time to plump for Sergio Ramos. The choice is yours!
Remember that you have twenty transfers for the season, and the transfer cut off time is 17:30 UK time every Tuesday.
At the top of the Goal Cup leaderboard, we have three teams locked on a mighty 161 points. Just think, with a few canny transfers, you could soon have your name up in lights as the Goal Cup's overall leader!
Published Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:49 PM
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