Euro U21’s Competition, Potty Style!
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Good Evening and welcome to the launch of my Summer Competition. Given as UEFA have left all us good fantasy folk stranded with no actual competition to play I thought I would step forward to try and fill the void a bit with my own little competition, just to keep us entertained. The competition is based on the Under 21 European Tournament which starts on Friday 16th June. Screw UEFA then, let’s get on with it…
Your aim is to gather as many points as possible, its that simple.
Follow this link to the UEFA site to find all you need to know when selecting your men who’ll hopefully bring you European Glory (then click on the Under 21 tab).
Lets Play ‘Its A Pre-Tournament Gamble’
The Rules.
A – Select 5 players from any position you wish.
B – Highlight one as your Captain (C) for double points.
C – Your men may come from just one of the Under 21 teams or a pick and mix from any.
D – Your five man team must be picked ahead of the tournament starting, hence its all a Potty gamble.
E – There will be two groups which I’ll draw on Monday at 9pm, with the top four after the group stage is complete making the semi-finals stage.
The Potty Points System!!!!
All your players will gain points as follows…
Appearance (and even off the bench) = 15pts
Goalkeeper/Defender cleansheet = 25pts
Goalkeeper/Defender conceeding = -10pts per goal
Any player making an assist = 20pts per assist
Any player scoring = 30pts per goal
Yellow or Red Card flashed = -5pts & -8pts respectively.
Now pick your 5 star men from these teams…
Poland
England
Slovakia
Sweden
FYR Macedonia
Portugal
Serbia
Spain
Czech Republic
Italy
Denmark
Germany
The 1st part of the competition, and your 5 picks as per above, are for the group stages only. You will get to pick a different squad after that but stay tuned for details should you qualify that far.
So do a wee bit of research then post those men of yours below.
Cheers my dears x
Potty
This article was written by Potty Procky
Where can I find the predicted starting XI for each team?
You can’t Kop let me know if you do you can only see the squad & how often they have played pre tournament, just guess 😉
I’ll look into it for you the permed one.
Potty
Cheers Potty
Hello Potty
Here are mine !
Davie Selke (Germany) Capt
Gerard Deulofeu (Spain)
Marco Asensio (Spain)
Max Meyer (Germany)
Schick (Czech)
Huggy Bear
Your team is sweet
Potty
Alright Potty, here is my five, trying to stick with Spanish players for the most part, as I actually have seen them, but trying to figure out who starts from Mayoral or Sandro is a headache.
Asensio (Spain)
Deulofeu (Spain)
Selke (Germany)
Bernadeschi (Italy)
Berardi (Italy) (C)
Why is everyone ignoring Italy? They are loaded!! Them and Spain have to be the favourites.
They’re about 5th favourites at roughly 10/1. Decent odds actually if you fancy them. No idea how that translates into American under / over stuff…
10/1? Wouldn’t that translate into +1000? Not bad considering that it’s a futures bet.
That seems kinda of high odds for Italy. Even when they suck they still manage to be in the fight to win any tournament. They shouldn’t suck in this u21, I don’t know the other teams that well, but so far I only see Spain as a better team. Both teams are goin to have guys on the bench that would walk into the England starting xi.
Futures bets are always priced high, no matter who you pick. Too many things can go wrong, and since there are so many betting options for a single prize, the bookies can inflate prices to drum up interest. Either way, they only have to pay out to one group of winners, but they’re taking money in from every side.
They may have even inflated that price to draw some interest away from Spain’s early action just to make sure that it doesn’t get too lopsided on them.
I get what you are saying there Guy, makes sense.
Paddy Power has them 6/1 and only behind Spain and Germany. That makes a lot more sense to me.
10/1 this morning with William Hill, that’s come into 8’s now. Still 10 with Stan James.
Mito
Can you representing Kulumbeeher win this?
Potty
Potty, you I actually represent Peneentuculo, not Kulumbeeher.
Picked mine Potty. Looks good, if I do say so myself
Ok, here’s my squad:
Tammy Abraham (ENG)
Alberto Cerri (ITA)
Marco Benassi (ITA) – C
Inaki Williams (ESP)
Gerard Deulofeu (ESP)
Winner winner, chicken dinner.
Footy Fantastic
I guess you like pasta?
Potty
More of a dumpling sort. But yeah…I’ll twirl some noodles with the best of them.
Pre-Tournament info
The Group A teams are….
Potty