Fantasy World Cup Live Match Chat Day 6
Ok, so today could be interesting! Group stage 1 ends and Group stage 2 begins. If only it were that simple… Just so we are all perfectly clear here there are three games today. The first and the last ones are in stage 1, the Brazil game in the middle is actually the start of stage 2. Now how McDonald’s choose to handle this quirk could be anybody’s guess and judging by the way they have handled the whole fiasco so far we are not holding our breath on this being a smooth transition! Please keep us updated throughout the day if anyone notices anything to indicate that Group stage 2 is open on their site.
As for the games themselves we begin at 5pm with Belgium vs Algeria. This could be a game with plenty of fantasy interest, some intentional and perhaps some not! Hazard, De Bruyne, Lukaku and the Belgian defence all proved popular choices prior to the tournament so it will be interesting to see if they can deliver on that promise. The Algerians inadvertently attracted equal attention due to their plethora of £1m squad fillers. Judging by the amount of botched formation changes though, a lot of people could be cheering on the Algerians!
It’s then back to the hosts Brazil as they and Mexico face off for their second games of the tournament at 8pm. Last time out Neymar and Oscar delighted while Fred frustrated but can the golden boys shine again against a Mexico side who also began the tournament with a decent victory over Cameroon.
We round the evening off and indeed stage 1 at 11pm as Russia and South Korea take their tournament bows. It’s difficult to think of two countries who have courted as much political controversy as of late so whether this encounter will provide some light relief for their fans we shall see but one things for certain, whatever the outcome, the Koreans will be informed with glee of their glorious 5 – 0 victory.
so chaps….
lets have a points update for round 1
me 106
102 for me.
110 for me
Great score Josh.
103 for me. 😉
Happy with that. A few sub decisions didn’t work out. 6 more points left on the bench. Overall, should keep me in contention.
If KDB and Bentaleb are confirmed on 7 apiece then it looks like I’m on 114. Pretty pleased with that. Puts me a little out in front of you Josh mate (for now!), but it’s going to be pretty tight in each group I imagine. Marginal calls like captain decisions, stick or twist on 5-6 pt players and so on may well prove decisive- exciting stuff!
91, meh.
Anybody know, are you limited to how many times you can change captain?
Docky
Change Captain as many times as you wish.
Deciding to stick is the hard part.
Potty
Paulinho fails me yet again…
Didn’t really turn out to be the differential I thought he would.
Akinfeev, Eshchenko, Ignashevich, Berezutskiy (c), Kombarov, Glushakov, Fayzulin, Shatov, Zhirkov, Samedov, Kokorin
96 pts so far with Kokorin yet to play
… who scored me a massive 1, so 97 but still the no minus pts for Ramos to be resolved, so another 2 might come off that