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.
Bit quiet on here…where has everyone gone…!
Anyway if anybody’s on here, what shall I do..?
Bentaleb
In For
Iniesta 6 pts
Really tight in POTTYs perfect 32 Group H
I need to squeeze every point outta my squad…!
I’d make that switch Biggy
Nice group we have Bigpopz ;-). I cannot advice you becauce you are my main competitor in the group. May the best win !
Congrates Big and Milk. You are 1 and 2 in group H. Good luck for you joining the best 16 ! I am out. Took too much risk ;-).
Still a full round of games left yet Wolfy, this is just round 2.
Haha thanks wolfpack.. I didn’t even know! lol
So Blind (5) > Kombarov and Ozil (4) > KDB seems logical right?
Also, would you dare replace Neymar with Kokorin?
go for it B…
he who dares…!
After lineups are released, then the changes begin!
Hows your McD campaign going Biggy?
B..
yea not bad…
in a tough group with not much separating the top 3…
I believe our top 2 in group H play your top 2 in group G …right..?
if all goes well our paths may be crossed…
hows your team doing..?
Chins is giving me a tough time at the moment and sits on the top, but not for long. Not much afraid from Ellefcee. If only he had put some time in McD than in his quizzes, he would have been a great competitor. :hippo:
It would be fun to meet you in knockouts!!!! B)
I deleted my team don’t forget, so doing ok considering i lost all of my gw 1 points, getting some re-instated at the end of group stage don’t forget. :dance:
NIN…
so glad I noticed your post earlier…. ref formation changes.
I was seriously put of tweaking formation due to earlier gremlins, but after following ur advice, ive successfully changed formation… & rather swapping like for like ( iniesta 6 pts to Bentaleb ) ive saved a whole point swapping Evra 5 to Bentaleb..
ta…!
No problem mate. Good luck with your picks.
I can confirm I have also just swapped formations with no issues. (heart skipped a beat as it did it as I had Messi on the right!). Worked just fine.
Belgium: Courtois – Alderweireld, van Buyten, Kompany, Vermaelen – Witsel, Fellaini, De Bruyne – Mertens, Lukaku, Hazard
any Russia teams news mate ?
Here you go:
#RUS LINE-UP: Akinfeev, Kozlov, Ignashevich, Kanunnikov, Glushakov, Kokorin, Berezutskiy (c), Shatov, Samedov, Fayzulin, Kombarov
Cheers Tekno
Come on then Kombarov and KDB!!!
Afraid to put in Kokorin in place of Neymar’s 7 points, he was awful in last match.
Ditching Pjanic (6) for KDB, with Bedoya/Bentaleb as two potential wildcards if he doesn’t perform. If he does, Neymar (7) is next in my sights!
Gutted for Bosnia last night- didn’t create a great deal but robbed by clumsy refereeing. Pjanic looks like a great player, will be sad to not see much more of him