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.
The B
Valbuena will equal JRod’s score i think. :O
Pippin
doubt it…neither assist will count I think, sadly.
chins and bellies
That seems really harsh. The OG is fair enough as thats in the rules i think, but the corner should be given to him imho.
The fact “vman” is my captain has nothing to do with it….
The B
V-Man was all set to be this week’s surprised top scorer!!!
inittowinit
He still picked up 10. That’ll do.
NIN
Benzema and van Persie score a combined 8 points for me. Nightmare showing from my strikers.
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)
Disappointing returns from Benzema (4 pts) and Enyeama (6 pts). Not too bad from Omeruo (8 pts) and Varane (14 pts) though.
SwissChocks
Will Bentaleb score more than 5 points? Any views greatly appreciated. Ta.
Pippin
Hope so, I’m bringing him in for Fernandinho. Wait to make sure he starts though
SwissChocks
Good point Pippin. It wouldn’t be the first time I made that mistake this tournament! Thanks.
The B
His average return has been around 6 so you can always hope that.
Mutley
And while i’m ranting, i might have done a bit better if Benzema hadn’t been sulking about having to play on the left in the first half due to playing Giroud down the centre. Lazy sod!!
The B
Hummels is out.
I repeat, Hummels is out.
Pippin
feck. Let’s hope Belkalem starts then, or I only have Rojo left on the bench- I already took out Manolas for Hummels this morning
NIN
Fuck sake. That’s my lot screwed anyway.
Mutley
FFS, i’m getting shafted this round, Sakho and Hummels!!!
Come on Algeria!!!!!!!
The B
My two Algerians not starting