Week Three - October 21st

-Home Teams are responsible for recaps. Week 3 Home Teams: Haya, Emaan and Yaqeen

-Trade deadline has been set to November 23rd at 7:00 pm. Will a gm be bold enough to break up their core group if it means giving their team a better shot at the championship?

-Contrary to popular belief, all teams don’t make the playoffs. The last place team goes home. Also the first two teams get a bye.

-There has been talk of doing an all-star game with another league. This is to first and foremost reward attendance (need to play at least 7 games to qualify) and top performers of the regular season. Talks have been preliminary so keep making dua!

-How good has Hany Soliman (IHSN) been? 2 straight weeks being selected by the refs as one of the three stars; Week 1’s First Star and Week 2’s Third Star. Scoring 4 of his teams 5 goals. Nothing seems to be slowing him down so maybe being off in Week 3 does the rest of the league a favour

- WEEK 2 2ND STAR: YAQEEN- Humza Chaudry 3G, GWG

- WEEK 2 1ST STAR: Shukr- Idris Deen, 3G & 1 A

-You snooze you lose Mr. Soliman. Yaqeen’s Hamza Chaudry gets a chance to take the lead in the goal scoring race.

-As mentioned in the previews Yaqeen has been one of the most if not the most impressive teams we seen so far this season.

-On that note, we haven’t see Haya. Welcome to the show! What you have for us? Huzaifa Manjra ran the table last year picking up two I-slam championships. He begins the quest to remind the league that this is still his kingdom.

-I feel obliged to mention that Ihsan’s Zaid Majoo came up with 2 break away saves to help preserve the victory for Ihsan. You probably didn’t read about it though because of the jerk move. Another friendly reminder that Home teams are responsible for recaps.

-Emaan’s Zaid Toorawa and Umair Awan has notched 2 goals in 2 games.

-This team seems to be drawing a lot of penalties; After going 0-5 on the PP in Week 1, Emaan had some success on the PP in Week 2.

-Ikhlas’ Salman Khalid will be in Spain. Huge blow to Ikhlas this week

-Shukr put up 6 goals against Sabr. The most by any team so far.

-Sabr has had a poor star. Luckily for them they Ikhlas also haven’t won either. Both teams are desperate to get out of the basement and get their seasons back on track.