Euro 2016 Fantasy Football Live Match Chat – The Knockout Phase
Just as the UK votes on a possible Brexit, the group stages at Euro 2016 have been completed with some unfortunates already on their way home, while all the Home Nations secured to Remain for a while longer as England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland all qualified for the round of 16. You will notice a few changes to the fantasy game, so please allow us to run you through them so you are fully up-to-speed.
Price changes – some players price has increased, but only by a minimal amount it would appear. For example Dimitri Payet’s price has risen from 8.0mln to 8.1mln!! So, nothing to get too worried about.
As a result, your budget has increased by 5mln to 105mln, which not only reflects the price changes but also the fact that most of the smaller teams and cheaper players are no longer available due to them being knocked out, hence there are less budget options available.
Transfers – for this round you have an unlimited amount of transfers. For the quarter-finals you will have 4 free transfers, for the semi-finals you will have 6 free transfers and for the final you will have 6 free transfers.
Team personnel – you can now select four players from a single team for the round of 16, followed by five players for the quarter-finals, six for the semi-finals and eight for the final.
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And the games themselves…
Quarter Finals – Matchday 5
Day 4
Sunday 3rd Juy, 20:00 France vs Iceland
Semi Finals – Matchday 6
Day 1
Wednesday 6th July, 20:00 Wales vs Portugal
Day 2
Thursday 7th July, 20:00 Germany vs France
Final – Matchday 7
Sunday 10th July, 20:00 XXXXXXX vs XXXXX
All times are GMT
Here is the route the teams will take from now on. (Courtesy of @CBSSPORTS)
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Set-Piece Takers
Courtesy of Jamie @fplbet
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How does this rabble of reprobates look for the semis?
Looks exactly like my team , I suspect the same as most teams good to go Rosco77
That’s the problem now, all our teams will be quite similar. To make any significant gains it might be an idea to triple up on a defence and hope for a clean sheet. Avoiding the obvious capo’s will also be necessary if you want to be make up ground.
Will Umtiti retain his place with Rami back Rosco?
And…how did that capo work out for you in the end? Did you end up with Payet or Griezmann?
Yeah he’ll probably lose his spot but I’ve got 6 def non starters so focussed on them, worth a hit? I’m thinking not!
Oh and i went Griezman!! thank god!!
Captain some one from wales/ portugal first? They play first.. u can change it to griezman if they dont play well..
Morning all figure its going to be a tough game for Wales without Ramsey he has been one of the players of the tournament.
Have they said who might replace Ramsey?
Kop they have Williams and Edwards (obviously, any Welsh team would
) but it looks like it’ll probably be Andy King who comes in.
Cookie!! That’s not fair!! You didn’t enter a daily’s 7 and now I can not win this anymore!! Well, in fairness I could’ve only tied if I won all the games which would be a long shot…
Anyway, this was my effort for last night.
Apologies DMC, i was away at the weekend and travelling back yesterday, but no excuse! I’ll give you the win for last night and let battle commence for the semis!
Fair enough mate!
You’ll bet me to it anyway!! On that note, how’s Umtiti status being rated in france? Not that I think he’ll do anything relevant but still, needs a transfer out if is not nailed. I thought he did ok except maybe on Iceland’s first goal, but that was a very fast siggy move which I’m sure nor rami or mangala would’ve seen better.
Not sure yet DMC, give me a couple of days and I’ll try and get some feedback. My thoughts would be that Rami would come back in, but that’s just my thinking.
Yeah, a shame we won’t see their line up. I would be interested to check if he’ll maitain the 2 pivot in mid without kanté. That seemed to work better, with Griez behind Giroud. Also, on the german camp, it would be good to know if people like draxler or goetze will get the nod. Several doubts actually in both teams. Hummm.
One thing we know is that the bench doens’t matter in the final, so we just need at least 5 of our players to go through.
Now don’t go tranfers in all the Portugeezers; you can only have 6 of a single team for the semis. 8 for the final.
LOl that was my plan
Ehehe Chris, same here!!
Looking at the referee nominations for the semis, it seems England could have someone in the final after all: Mark Clattenburg.
Morning fellas, how’s everyone doing? As you can see I have 7 people not playing thanks to that stupid yellow card rule but as I see it I have 3 options.
1. Take a hit and sell all 7
2. Use 6 FTs and leave Ramsey on the bench
3. Use 6 FTs but leave either Meunier or Gia on the bench to maximise attacking players.
Which is best?
I see your problem Matt. I don’t think hits are recommended at this late stage. Not if you have at least XI. You’d need something special for it to compensate and we know how tight games have been. That being said, clean sheets were non existing in the quarters so maybe option 3 is the best one (leaving meunier, since he’s the cheapest).
You’ll have another 6 for the final meaning that you’d probably be able to bring ramsey on a free if they reach the final. Just try to spread the love between the teams so that you have at least 5 going through.
Hey DMC, option 3 is the one I was leaning towards as I took a hit last round so don’t want to take consecutive ones and leaving Meunier is the exact player I was thinking for his price.
Who would you lean towards bringing in?
Right now I’m thinking:
Fabianski –> Rui Patricio
Giaccherini –> Williams
Hazard –> Allen
That leaves me with Ramsey, Milik and Witsel to be replaced and 27.7 Mil to replace them with, I’m thinking one more German but then I’m stumped as to who else to bring in.
Well, you know about my bias for Portugal so maybe I’m not the best person to recommend transfers right now ?
I’ll say this: if any of these games offers clean sheet potential then yeah maybe it’s the Portugal-Wales one, given our inability to score much and their ability to play tight/concede few (England scored twice though).
I expect Portugal to control possession which also makes it difficult for wales to score, so on that basis I’m going heavy on Portugal’s defense, but I do have Chester and will probably leave him there so I understand your Williams move. Of course with bale in there they can score at any given time. But so can Griez, Giroud, Payet and Ozil, Draxler, Kroos which means that their semifinal offers less CS potential.
Not sure why you’d bring Allen in, but maybe I’m missing something.
I think I also covered your other question in terms of which attacking players to bring in. Ronaldo is a must right now, for me, but you already have Nani so maybe that would be overkill.
So Griez/Giroud for Milik’s spot and then Draxler or Goetze if we get to know which one (or both) gets the nod.
I think there’s enough money for those moves.
Pogba is someone I wouldn’t transfer out or in. He looks off the pace in terms of goal scoring opportunities and I’m not sure about he’s role if Kanté is back. Matuidi I see as a cheeky punt; he seems to be better in terms of form and has now produced an assist. It all depends on your goals here, if chasing something than yeah a small punt like that could work; if keeping, maybe stick the big guns in there and relax. Portugal offer several cheap mids that pose an attacking threat like Mário, Renato and André Gomes (fully fit now and seriously in contention).
Matt, that question mark was supposed to be a 🙂
grrrr ::):
Cheers for your thoughts DMC. It really helps.
As for Allen be may go he’s performances have been brilliant but I don’t think they really convert to fantasy points so he could move to Matuidi. Pogba definitely won’t be coming in he’s been poor all tournament I think and only did something against the lowest ranked team in the tournament.
Right now the moves are :
Fabianski –> Rui Patricio
Giaccherini –> Williams
Hazard –> Kroos
Witsel –> Joao Mario
Ramsey –> Matuidi
Milik –> Greizmann
Only thing I dont like about that is I know how 5 Frenchies and that will screw me over if they get knocked out. I think the German/French match will go penalties to be honest but then I don’t know who will win.
Maybe Matuidi out but then I’m unsure who go bring in.
That’s supposed to read “I now have” haha
All decent moves Matt. If I’m correct you have at least 5 going through to the final, bar any injuries or red cards, of course, so all’s well even if France goes out.
That will be a great game to watch from a neutral point of view – as was with Italy.
It’s different though: ze Germans seem to be a much better team as a whole but the frenchies are playing at home and coming out of a 5 goals win. Anything can happen really, from a 2-0 German win to a narrow France win. France can’t defend like Italy though, so, unless they score first and then concede late, I don’t see this one going into extra time. I may be wrong of course.
That’s true I miscounted. I think the Germans are the better team but with the French having a home advantage it seems to be giving them more of a boost lately so they could spring a surprise but I agree with you it will be an entertaining match for neutrals which is basically all of us haha