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!
Take Clasie out (7pts) for Khedira?
Inittowinit
Not sure how close your Final is?
But I would make that move.
Potty
Yip.
Gordon’s alive! :dance:
Definitely.
do i take cillisen(10) out for romero?
Nope.
Elleffcee
The man of few Words?
Has Suarez bit your tongue out?
Potty
No t’internet mate, all hunky dory now.
Glad goofys gone the gimp, what a total tw*t, can’t keep carrying dead weight, let barca worry about him now.
Any word on how fit Hummells is?
Sounds like he is going to play, but probably not 100%. Will have to wait on team sheets to be sure.
FinalGame 2 status
The Dreamers – 63
Serendipity – 38
So I am Trailing by 25 points, not impossible for me to win though ……. I still have 8 players to play but 7 of them are German
Seren- it’s closer than that. I’ve 15 to come off for subs. Captain choice will be key.
I’m still in with a chance then
. Captain choice will be important, I’m still deciding on mine.
Seren – who u got captain? I’ve muller. 6 in it
I have muller too. Currently on 81points.
Players working for me currently are:
Neuer, boateng, hummels, rojo, lahm, mascherano, Kroos, mueller
No messi for me , could be a differential for you
You guys are still making forwards captain? I thought everyone has learned that the defenders are where the points are at
consistent 9+ points a game. With forwards, it’s been all or nothing. If I could have played all 6 of my defenders then I would have haha.
Josh I figured that Mueller would be trying to snatch that golden boot! Who have you captained?
Ah okay. I left it on de Vrij who got me 26 points.
Seren – what u on now – I am 92
88 …..
Cs so n u win.
Germany Team
1 M. Neuer
16 P. Lahm
20 J. Boateng
4 B. Höwedes
5 M. Hummels
7 B. Schweinsteiger
8 M. Özil
6 S. Khedira
18 T. Kroos
11 M. Klose
13 T. Müller
Argentina Team
1 S. Romero
15 M. Demichelis
4 P. Zabaleta
2 E. Garay
16 M. Rojo
14 J. Mascherano
6 L. Biglia
8 E. Pérez
10 L. Messi
9 G. Higuaín
22 E. Lavezzi