Fantasy World Cup Live Match Chat Day 9
Good morning all and we hope you’re up for some more non-stop action as we continue to progress through the group stage of the World Cup. Today is Day 9 and we kick off in the colourful and coastal city of Recife as Italy meet Costa Rica – both teams won their opening fixture in the group and this one should be a further test of how good the surprise package of Costa Rica really are.
The middle game sees us move into Group E as the toblerone-loving, cheese-eating Swissies aim to put one of their neighbours, the garlic smelling French. These two also won their first game, though we suspect you will have more fantasy interest in the French, with the likes Benzema, Pogba and Evra.
And finally, for all you insomniacs out there we have Honduras vs Ecuador – not really sure what to say about this one except to hope that those Hondurans you used to fill up the cheap spaces in your squad play and maybe even get you some points.
Well good luck, hope your players perform, careful on those formations now.
Armband is on Benzema (36 points). Do I keep it on him or give Messi a chance? Last week I swapped to Lukaku which got me nowt. Advice from the elders please.
Elders
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Haha…
I have it on Benze-goal,too..and I don’t have Messi, so guess I’d just leave it where it is…
Goetze is tempting, but…
I think Cookie, elle and Potty will be well away by now mate. Hot chocolate at 9pm I believe so I’ll have a stab at this. Keep him. End of. You’re looking at something approaching a Messi hat trick to beat that.
Changing it would be madness unless you are chasing a gap in your mini- league. In fact even if you are probably keep it on Benzema as most will captain Messi, so just hope he blanks! He’s capable of getting a hat-trick, sure, but you gotta play the odds.
Thanks guys. Messi hat trick is possible against Iran but as Calvin says most people will have gone for him. I did until this afternoon when I read something on this God-sent site about going for Giroud with the option of swapping later. Thank you whoever posted that. I think I’ll stick with the “oiseau” in the hand….
Better than two “mains” in the bush :big-lol:
Bon joué mon fils! Just lost 4 points for his missed penalty. Down to 32……still enough?
Yeah, just noticed this myself…
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Benzema down to 16pts
Oh well…
I’d keep 36 points, Messi needs a massive game to beat that
Stick.
Would you change Valbuena as captain to Messi? Leaning towards “no”. Any thoughts?
How many pts did he score, sorry ?
HL – he got 22
I would go and gamble…
Saying that, Messi was not at his best in his previous game…
Nah, I would gamble anyway…
Fixture is too good…to miss…me thinks…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27951343
cheers lads
Would anyone change Giroud captain to Messi? Giroud got me 22 pts, i’m not sure its big enough
So, to all pondering swapping their captains out- I had Karnezis (c) on 24 total before this game, and opted to leave it there instead of switching out to Benzema, which would have netted me 32. Sometimes it will pay to gamble… Messi vs Iran is certainly very tempting, but with the mini-league margins so tight it’ll take a ballsy man to remove the armband from a high scoring player I feel.
France though – woof!
Indeed Pippin. Bear in mind as well that although it seems you have missed out on 8 points it is actually only 4, so really not that bad considering you would have lost more than 4 in making the switch if Benzema had blanked.
Pippin, you are bmccormick in Potty D yes? I will if you will?
C’est la vie!
Ok, Im out…
Cheers !