Euro 2016 Fantasy Football Live Match Chat – The Group Stages
And we’re very nearly there. Just a bit of last minute tinkering before it all begins and another summer of wondering when England will be home will be over in about a week or so! We’ve opened the discussion a bit early so feel free to post up those last minute Rate My Teams and post any questions you have on any of the squads or potential team selections. We are blessed with a truly international community so we are sure you will get some answers to almost any concern you may have. Questions regarding what the Dutch are doing this summer are summarily banned though. Oh ok, who are we kidding. First to get Raz to come out from under his anti-Euro blanket wins a t-shirt!
As ever, just as with FPL – post your scores, your match comments, your highs, your lows or just whatever you’re about to have for dinner. Don’t forget that you can make team changes daily with captains altered as well as line-up swaps as no doubt the site screwing up your changes as per every year but either way get involved as usual. It’s sure to be a fun ride. And please, please, whatever you do – don’t let Init win it again…
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And the games themselves…
Group stage: (all times CET)
Match Day 1
Day 1
Friday 10 June, 21.00 (St-Denis): France v Romania – Group A
Day 2
Saturday 11 June, 15.00 (Lens): Albania v Switzerland – Group A
Saturday 11 June, 18.00 (Bordeaux): Wales v Slovakia – Group B
Saturday 11 June, 21.00 (Marseille): England v Russia – Group B
Day 3
Sunday 12 June, 15.00 (Paris): Turkey v Croatia – Group D
Sunday 12 June, 18.00 (Nice): Poland v Northern Ireland – Group C
Sunday 12 June, 21.00 (Lille): Germany v Ukraine – Group C
Day 4
Monday 13 June, 15.00 (Toulouse): Spain v Czech Republic – Group D
Monday 13 June, 18.00 (St-Denis): Republic of Ireland v Sweden – Group E
Monday 13 June, 21.00 (Lyon): Belgium v Italy – Group E
Day 5
Tuesday 14 June, 18.00 (Bordeaux): Austria v Hungary – Group F
Tuesday 14 June, 21.00 (St-Etienne): Portugal v Iceland – Group F
Match Day 2
Day 1
Wednesday 15 June, 15.00 (Lille): Russia v Slovakia – Group B
Wednesday 15 June, 18.00 (Paris): Romania v Switzerland – Group A
Wednesday 15 June, 21.00 (Marseille): France v Albania – Group A
Day 2
Thursday 16 June, 15.00 (Lens): England v Wales – Group B
Thursday 16 June, 18.00 (Lyon): Ukraine v Northern Ireland – Group C
Thursday 16 June, 21.00 (St-Denis): Germany v Poland – Group C
Day 3
Friday 17 June, 15.00 (Toulouse): Italy v Sweden – Group E
Friday 17 June, 18.00 (St-Etienne): Czech Republic v Croatia – Group D
Friday 17 June, 21.00 (Nice): Spain v Turkey – Group D
Day 4
Saturday 18 June, 15.00 (Bordeaux): Belgium v Republic of Ireland – Group E
Saturday 18 June, 18.00 (Marseille): Iceland v Hungary – Group F
Saturday 18 June, 21.00 (Paris): Portugal v Austria – Group F
Match Day 3
Day 1
Sunday 19 June, 21.00 (Lille): Switzerland v France – Group A
Sunday 19 June, 21.00 (Lyon): Romania v Albania – Group A
Day 2
Monday 20 June, 21.00 (St-Etienne): Slovakia v England – Group B
Monday 20 June, 21.00 (Toulouse): Russia v Wales – Group B
Day 3
Tuesday 21 June, 18.00 (Paris): Northern Ireland v Germany – Group C
Tuesday 21 June, 18.00 (Marseille): Ukraine v Poland – Group C
Tuesday 21 June, 21.00 (Bordeaux): Croatia v Spain – Group D
Tuesday 21 June, 21.00 (Lens): Czech Republic v Turkey – Group D
Day 4
Wednesday 22 June, 18.00 (Lyon): Hungary v Portugal – Group F
Wednesday 22 June, 18.00 (St-Denis): Iceland v Austria – Group F
Wednesday 22 June, 21.00 (Nice): Sweden v Belgium – Group E
Wednesday 22 June, 21.00 (Lille): Italy v Republic of Ireland – Group E
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Set-Piece Takers
Courtesy of Jamie @fplbet
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Great article from a twitter friend analysing Form vs Fixtures in FPL. Worth a read. Hopefully might feature Peter on some guest articles next season if we can.
https://mathematicallysafe.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/fpl-analysis-form-and-fixtures/
Enjoyed that but I was hoping for a grand reveal at the end. I was disappointed :sad-face:
Great analysis though.
To be honest I wasn’t expecting anything different. There’s no real logical answer to this debate. This is as close as I’ve seen to proving that. The one big variable is you can’t predict the future! I didn’t pick Perisic because of fixtures (Spain) but form said I should have. His form. Spain’s said I shouldn’t. And so the two things cross over anyway – player form vs opponents (fixture) form. He mentioned ‘gut feeling’ a lot and it’s a mix of that and pure luck most of the time when it comes to individual cases. Getting the overal package correct in the main is just as important.
I hear you too here init; I ditched perisic on my WC for that reason: spains fixture form. That and the fact modric was out. Argh.
So, on that basis, Ronaldo will have a hattrick tomorrow, he’s in poor form, playing for a team with poor fixtures and against one with good fixtures form. Is that how this works?
I hear you too here init; I ditched perisic on my WC for that reason: spains fixture form. That and the fact modric was out. Argh.
So, on that basis, Ronaldo will have a hattrick tomorrow, he’s in poor form, playing for a team with poor fixtures form and against one with good fixtures form. Is that how this works?
I’ve no idea now with him in all honesty! I just know he’s likely to get a hatty at any given moment if the mood / luck takes him. Hopefully it will tomorrow eh?!
Hopefully!! Oddly as it turns out a 0-0 against hungary gets us through!
Oh don’t say that! Although your defence has done me ok so far I guess. Well, once anyway. I have 2 of them. Will have just One tomorrow as I don’t need the keeper.
I hear you GP. Can’t read numbers and letters in the same sentence so I couldn’t really follow the graphs. The annotations are very clear though so the message is understood: you can’t rely neither on form nor on fixtures!
Why the hell did Ramos take the peno?!
Will I now get a points deduction for him now like FPL?
Yep, that’s a -2 to add to the -1 for conceeding 2
Reckon it’s -1 overall for him tonight. But you can sub him out if you have anybody left. I think. Don’t see why not.
I have Pudil and Dzsudzsák to come in as Piszczek randomly didn’t play?! Why I lost a Poland CS lol
So I will sub them both out! cheers
Lol I don’t even have Ramos! I have Alba! Why on earth did I think I had Ramos! hahaha
lol that’s a +1 then! Much better!
Pudil, though, isn’t he from the czechs? Or do Hungary also have one of their own?
I had Ramos, just great. Why did he take that penalty?
He’s pretty high on the list of set piece takers, i’ve seen him score a few penalties and free kicks down the years.
I didn’t see the game but was there any other players who could take the penalty?
I don’t know who their regular taker is to be honest..
Iniesta is their usual taker. Ramos is listed as 2nd in the order. No idea why they switched.
Oh really? Wouldn’t have guessed that and clearly didn’t check! Would have guessed Cesc
Wow has anyone noticed this? Germany, Italy, Spain, France and England, only one of them will get through to the final! This will be a major chance for second tier teams to make history!
Yikes, i hadn’t seen the setup until now. Getting that side of the draw right will be huge for fantasy picks. Hmmmm
DMC Wales could have a good run here.
Silvers, they’ll play either Northern Ireland or most likely Turkey so, given Bale’s form, I can see them in the quarter finals. Probably not much after that but who knows. At this point, looking at player’s potential and team general strengths and form I see Croatia, of course, and Belgium as the contenders from that left side of the graph. If Portugal can get a convincing win tonight, them too then. If not, they’ll make a strong case anyway if they get through but it will have to be game-by-game, with Belgium most likely on the last 16. Still, we need to see the group stage past us to re assess.
Yes I agree DMC , also just looking at that chart I’ve picked my team for the nk round , obviously I will have to put names in because of prices but it has made it easier.
Ronaldo(C) to play tomorrow. Hope he comes good, he’s overdue. Have Patricio, Sanches, Long and Siggurdson to come
Yeah, about six tournaments overdue :hippo:
We’ve been through this NIN mate, and the facts don’t support that conclusion.
The last euro cup (2012) no one scored more than him (3) and Portugal hit the semis and he was named in the tournament best XI. We lost to Spain on penalties.
2008 was a bummer, that’s true. He only scored 1 – in the last and crucial group stage game against Czech Rep. though – and then Germany kicked us out (3-2). But the general performance of the team was very bad as a 2-0 group stage loss to Switzerland shows. He actually did his part here.
2004 he had 18 years old and still managed to score on his debut and was one of the stars of the tournament.
It’s the WC that probably gives you the impression that he sucks in final tournaments, but let’s look closely:
Brazil we all know how that went and 2010 we were eliminated by Spain right after the group stages (1-0). So, yeah, in those two situations he let us down (the whole team did, actually).
But 2006 is a very different story. We reached the semis and he played well throughout the tournament scoring 1 in the groups and the winning penalty against England (after leading to Rooney’s sending off) in the quarters. We went out on a Zinedine Zidane controversial penalty on the semis. Sad really, but it wasn’t that Ronaldo was due anything.
This shows that he went very well in 2 Euros (2004 and 2012) and 1 WC (2006). He was our best player in 2008 and then there’s the 2 WC that everyone failed (Brazil) and that he particularly failed (2010).
So, there you have it, Ronaldo failing in final tournaments is an urban myth!!
And he’s also good at throwing inconvenient journalist’s mics at the river! Look at this, from this morning at 00m38ss!
https://youtu.be/CWN-45jYvV0
Still think the chances he has so far he is due to score. That journalist deserved that
He better not fail tonight!
Init I hope so too
Which defender should I play?
Snookie, if possible wait to see the Portugal line up before deadline.
Guess will have to do that…. Hope I remember to change though