Fantasy World Cup Live Match Chat Day 11
Happy Sunday to you all! Belgium and Russia kick us off at 5pm today with Lukaku hoping to atone for his no show in stage 1. Well ok, he showed up, but he did pretty much bugger all and disappointed many who had him as a last resort captaincy option. Hopefully he can produce in this one and announce himself on the world stage. Either way, and even if he notches a hat trick, we imagine Jose will be sat at home saying ‘meh, bring me Costa’. Hazard and KDB will hold many a hope here also and it will be interesting to see if Belgium can get into their stride as they looked a little burdened in the opener, perhaps with the weight of expectation but if they can it would be thrilling to see a ‘smaller nation’ finally threaten the established teams.
South Korea and Algeria go at 8pm. Little of fantasy interest here we imagine other than the odd cheeky Algerian filler. If you have an under performing star elsewhere then replace and hope by all means but don’t be expecting much. Although a few of us thought that of Greece the other night and woke up with an extra 20 odd points so just never know!
The good old USA are back in action at 11pm as they attempt to tame Ronaldo and 10 other Portugeezers. Given our links with MLS and having a good number of regulars from the USA we may be a tad biased here but we make no excuses for saying ‘Go USA!!!’ in this one. Ronaldo himself is struggling with a persistent knee injury that his medics have warned him he needs to rest but we imagine he will be out there fighting regardless as Portugal look to avoid an early exit from the competition.
Morning. Away from my computer and still can’t make any changes on my phone.
Anyone got any ideas?!
Shadow, check your e-mail.
Thanks, will email you back shortly.
Morning all,
My Hugstars are only 2 points behind HHHHHHannibal on a 195 and only 3 pts in front of TinkerManU in POTTY A, its tight at the top. I guess HL is top, who’s TinkerManU?
Morning Photek.
Yes, HHHHHannibal is HL. TinkerManU is Floydeth. Ninja9iN are my lot and i haven’t a clue who Mozzy is. Tight group aint it?
Yeah it is a tight group Ni, everyone getting some good scores.
Have you got anymore players to play?
i took out Gerrard (5pts) and brought in De Bruyne.
Debating about Neymar (7) for Luka but he didn’t do alot in the 1st game
Just Bentaleb and Ronaldo (c) left for me, really hoping Ronny does the business for me or i’m in trouble. The Lukaku/Neymar call is a close one, Belgium v Russia will be a tight game i think.
I’m sure Ronny will get you some good points Nin and put you right up there with me and HL.
Luka / Neymar is a tough one, i’m not confident Luka will beat Neymar’s 7.
Hopefully. His injuries are worrying but i’m hoping he can make up for less surging runs, with set pieces and his aerial ability. Two attacking returns is what my team needs and then a few make up points from Bentaleb. Or two hat-tricks, that would do nicely! ha.
well GL mate, i’m not sure Bentaleb will repeat his GW 1 score but i’m sure Ronny will pick up some nice points for you
Cheers. Good luck to you too.
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Nice to see my team holding the top spot, but I aint got anymore players to play…So guess this will change…
Its a tight group,indeed…
Cheers 😉 !
Nice work HL! Guess it’ll be a nervy day for you then although not knowing who everyone else has or can do doesn’t help!
My groups a bit tight too! Other than Calvin walking away with the lead there are 4 points separating 2nd to 4th. I’ve got a few Belgians to go today but one of them is Lukaku……
Belgium & especiallu Lukaku is due to a good game, finally…
Think you will see a good return from him/them…
Round 3 should see a number of players rested/rotated, so I feel this will make or brake some teams…
Re Group A- both Photek & Nin have 2 more players to go, so it will be veeeeeery close…
Good shooting HL, i’m sitting 2 points behind you with De Bruyne to play. As you can see from above i’m debating about taking Neymar’s 7 out for a punt on Luka but i’m not so sure he’ll do much…. choices choices
Whats Calvin on Innit and where are you in your group?
@Photek-I would gamble on Lukaku…
7pts is not much…
Cheers HL, to be fair, i gambled on Giroud (22) being my captain for Messi (20) that nearly cost me a few points be it for Messi late great strike.
I think you may be right for the sake of 7 points, already took out Gerrard’s 5 for the same reason.
It does add a different dimension to fantasy football all this chopping and changing.
Photek sorry missed this, our group looks like this –
Top players of ‘POTTY F’.
1 Jon_Sharpe 215 (Calvin)
2 CraigMitchel 187 (GP)
3 FC_Sanchez 185
4 inittowinit8 183
5 Potmiester 95
Wow, in the Mirror game my defence has scored a magic 1 point between them, and an amazing 2 points in round 1. The -1 for every goal conceded and -2 for a yellow card is really harsh on us isn’t it? Anyone else had a similar, or worse defensive display in the Mirror game?
Don’t even get me started NIN! Have Evra, Neuer and Baines, all played and all three on 0 points!! And have Yoshida sitting pretty on the bench with 6, FML.
At least i’m not alone!! haha. Very harsh rules.
Big shock in the Bosnia game last night. Anyone watch it?
I seen most of the game and thought Nigeria were the better side on the night. Luck was on their side though.
if Messi hadnt scored Id have had the armband on Dzeko
Well, thankfully he did and what a goal it was! Literally the first time they gave him a half yard of space and bang, top corner.
I love the smell of predictions in the morning.
Hasta la predicta, baby. Only about 15 left Calvin! 😉
Hahaha! Was honestly going to go with Predicta la vista, baby in one of the upcoming ones!
Oops! Well, actually, that works better than mine anyway 😉
Haliche (ALgerian defender) or Bentaleb instead of Dzeko (3 points)??
TD – bentaleb for me.