Fantasy World Cup Final Live Match Chat
And so it’s finally here, or at least it will be tomorrow. We have the most pointless of pointless games to get out of the way this evening as Brazil and Holland must somehow pick themselves up and face each other in the 3rd/4th place play-off. From a fantasy perspective though this one could be crucial as it is part of the final round of games. Team news will be key here and we advise that you have your desired squads in place but also be poised to make changes once these line-ups are announced ahead of the deadline which is 8pm UK time. Don’t be surprised to see wholesale changes to both sides as they may well look to ‘reward’ the squad players who haven’t featured much so far and in Brazil’s case probably shield a number of players who flopped in dramatic fashion in the semi and well and truly had sand kicked in their faces as the Germans brushed them aside on their way to lay their towels on the ‘final’ sunbeds. This could go either way and we could see a dour game as the teams just go through the motions, suitcases in hand, but you never know and we wouldn’t be surprised to see them throw caution to the wind and treat us to a lively open game. Although in Brazil’s case we suspect they may not be so up for that after last time!
Sunday evening then sees the big one as the heavyweights of international football, Argentina and Germany, clash to see who will be crowned World Cup 2014 winners. We will not have the luxury of seeing the line-ups for this one but the teams themselves should not be too difficult to predict. German boss Joachim Loew will have to decide whether to stick with newly crowned all time WC goal scoring record holder Klose or tighten things up and perhaps bring in an extra midfielder which will see Muller revert to the centre. Other than that the rest of the team will be as you were we suspect with Lahm continuing at right-back as we don’t think that he will be rushing back U-boat Mertersacker to face Messi, unless Hummels doesn’t recover from injury in time.
Likewise with Argentina, Alejandro Sabella will have a decision to make with Aguero having returned in the semi from yet another injury. A lot will depend on how tight the canny Sabella decides to make this one as he does have a history of shutting up shop and trying to snatch the odd goal in big games. If he does then we could be in for another turgid affair and it won’t be the spectacle that the occasion deserves. Not that the Argentinians will care a hoot if it sees them over the line. Messi has gone some way to confounding any doubters with some wonderful contributions to the competition so far but was strangely lacklustre in the semi final to the point of almost anonymity. We doubt many will be brave enough not to include him in their teams but a poor 6 point return last time could tempt some to spread the money around elsewhere and give themselves a bigger squad to choose from.
Whatever you decide to do we wish you the best of luck and we want to take the opportunity to thank every single one of you who has helped to make this a successful and enjoyable Fantasy World Cup, from the contibutors who started the ball rolling with the group reviews way back when, to everyone who has read and commented throughout, to Potty and his wonderful competitions, to Bench for running the Mirror league right through to the FF247 team itself for somehow pulling it all together. Thanks everyone!
Just a thought . .
The first team to ‘take’ the new World Champions title will be . . . . .Scotland.
Enjoy it while it lasts Jogi.
How can Messi end up winning the Goldan Ball? He’s been invisible since the group stages!
Messi has been terrible against both Holland and Germany. Doesn’t look fit at all and not in form either. Wait? He’s best? Ok, corrupt FIFA doing its job again. LMAO.
Congrats Elle, looks like you nicked it (insert your own scouser joke here).
Cheers Init, i have only won because you taught me well, and of course i would have nicked it as i seem to nick everything else according to you lot on here. Cheers once again boss man.
Golden Ball rubbish
Yeah worst shit ever. This is even worse than the ballon d’or 2010 when Sneijder should’ve won it. And if not him Iniesta or Xavi. NOT MESSI. LMAO. This stuff is terrible.
Ok, let’s hope a few hours from now the FPL site works and can do transfers. Time for some action!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i thought Mascherano was sensational all tournament . messi was far from best player for me !
I thought he was his usual dirty self, and should have had a second yellow at least twice and sent off.
Init me old mucker, guess what, our doubles team has nicked the mirror doubles title, we finished 2nd behind Jeet, but his entry was only his singles team, therefore he don’t come into the reckoning. Give yourself a pat on the back mate. :thumbup:
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