Fantasy World Cup Live Match Chat Last 16, Day 3
Morning Chins 😉 Welcome to the last 16 of the World cup – or the round of 16 as some choose to call it, or the first knockout stage. In fact, call it what you want – either way, it’s sudden death time – lose and you go home, outta here, offski and this will likely mean that your coach resigns or gets the chop or in England’s case receives a pat on the back and a “bad luck old chap”.
Monday is Europe vs Africa day. France vs Nigeria get’s us going – hopefully goals is the order of the day and a game akin to Nigeria’s 3-2 loss to Argentina will do very nicely, thanks lads. The evening gives us another viewing of ze Germans as zey take on ze plucky, mucky, lucky (delete as per your personal preference) Algerians. Both European sides will be favourites to go through, but it’s been a World Cup of surprises thus far so mustn’t count our chickens quite yet.
The final day of the round sees the Argies back on display as they attempt to neutralise the Swiss – that shouldn’t be tricky. However, with the likes of di Maria and Higuain quiet so far and Aguero injured (obviously), it’s been down to little Leo to carry the Argies through the group. Easy then, mark Messi out the game and you’ll be fine – how many times have we heard that before?! Switzerland’s only chance of course is if Shaqiri turns on the style and his hat-trick vs Honduras will leave him feeling on top of his game.
The round is concluded as Belgium take on the US of A. Could be a tough one to call this as Belgium have hardly set the tournament on fire as yet, while the Yanks have surprised many with their courage and adventure. Klinsmann of course, has been here before and knows what it takes to get through this stage of the tournament and there’ll surely be cries of “Mashed potato” and “You’re the man” if awesome talisman Dempsey can lead America through to the quarters, or quarter finals, or last 8, or the round of 8…..we’ve gone full circle here.
Enjoy, select your squad’s wisely and good luck.
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
Now the points are completely messed up. M’bohli 6 points, Halliche 0 points, Muller 1 pt. :noshake:
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
Noooo Halliche subbed
Prob woulda gotten loads of points if the Germs had kept attacking *sob sob sob*
TheDreamers
Will Muller get that assist?
*An assist is awarded to a player who plays the final successful pass which leads to a goal. Please note that assists are not awarded to players who are fouled for free-kicks or penalties which lead to goals, for own goals or for goals which result from rebounds off other players or the woodwork.
Josh721
Yeah it was Schürrle’s goal.
TheDreamers
no assist given – crazy
Josh721
Just replayed that goal again. It looks like an Algerian player got the tiniest of touches on it before it got to Schurrle. But you can barely tell! Just give him the assist.
peakydave
ok so no clean sheets again!!!
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
Djabou goal! So happy I decided to play him :big-lol:
Mutley
Yeeeehaaaaaaa
chins and bellies
Well done Tekno,
How many points did he finish on?
My front two currently Neymar 5 pts and Mueller 3 pts. Guess i should’ve played him too!
Josh721
Same here Chins. Guess I played the wrong Algerian!!
chins and bellies
Indeed mate.
I got 10 pts from Lacen though, so i suppose i should be happy with that.
Josh721
As did I. Have Mbolhi on the bench though. To be honest, I probably wouldn’t have played him anyway since I also had Navas. I was really close to switching him in for Cillessen and since he got 10, I probably would have stopped there.
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
He’s on 6 pts chins.
Josh721
Are you kidding me… Djabou gets a goal. Should have let Slimani get that!!