Fantasy World Cup Live Match Chat Last 16, Day 4
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”.
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.
Chins…
Looks like we had almost the same side…
15 of the same player…
What a battle…
I really thought you’d do it at the end there….
Sigh of relief when USA scored…
Great game buddy..
Looks like POTTYs up to his tricks again with a new nearly league….?
Indeed mate. I enjoyed it.
Happy days Pottys given us yet another bite of the cherry. Will be a tough one though. And it’ll be interesting how many playing players people go with in their squads.
Quick update.
3 Ties are so close.
Talking of 2 point lead here.
Before blazing the scores on here I will let McDonalds settle down.
Then I will post them.
The Competitions are so tight I hope you understand?
Potty
Toight like a toiger.
Schmoke and a pancake?
:big-lol:
Hey guys, finally able to make it on here. Man, that was a tough loss to take. Great effort from our guys, if only we could play the whole game like we did in that last 10 minutes. Tim Howard was amazing! 16 saves. Most by a keeper in the WC since 1966. Everything could have been different if Wondo had just finished like any decent forward would in regulation… And how about Julian Green? Getting a nice goal after just 3 minutes haha. Not bad for a 19 year old.
And Tekno, looks like you went through. It was a fun ride haha I had 2 players today if you were wondering, Rojo and Fabian Johnson. Too bad Johnson went off after 30 minutes or else he would have scored a couple
good luck the rest of the way!!
So who are we all backing to take it all now? All of the favorites have been a little disappointing except for one. I’m picking Colombia to win it.
And here was my full team:
Keylor NAVAS 34 5
Jasper CILLESSEN 27 3
Rais MBOLHI ? 33 1
Mats HUMMELS 41 7
Mamadou SAKHO 33 6
Daley BLIND 30 4
Marcos ROJO 41 4
Fabian JOHNSON ? 18 3.5
Oscar DUARTE 36 3.5
Konstantinos MANOLAS ? 30 2.5
James RODRIGUEZ 53 8
Philipp LAHM 36 7
Blaise MATUIDI 28 6.5
Juan CUADRADO 39 6
Medhi LACEN ? 12 1.5
Nabil BENTALEB ? 19 1
Hashem BEIKZADEH ? 0 1
Bakhtiar RAHMANI ? 0 1
NEYMAR 42 9
Karim BENZEMA 38 8.5
Thomas MUELLER 43 8
Islam SLIMANI 25 2
Abdelmoumene DJABOU 26 1
Bad luck on two counts today mate.
I’d love to see Colombia win it too, but this world cup seems to have luck on the side of the big teams.
Did yourselves proud Josh, unlucky fella.
Supporting both Belgium and Colombia now in quarters.
Who Should I’ve keep Neymar or Muller ..?
If you had of asked a question like this before the world cup, the answer would have been Neymar against Colombia for sure. But now we’ve seen what we have, it’s not such an easy decision. Also keep in mind they’re on the same side of the draw, so if all goes as planned, then they will play against each other in the semi, and then they will both play again no matter what either in the final or the 3rd place playoff.
If you can keep both of them that would be ideal, but I would have to say Muller would be the better option to keep. I really think we could see Brazil struggle against Colombia.
Cheers Mate !
Neymar
Squad done.
Number of players playing (i hope!) by game is as follows…
Fra v Ger. 2
Bra v Col. 4
Arg v Bel. 7
Hol v Cos. 4
Non playing: 6
It would be interesting to see who’s gone with what. (Obviously we’re all far too competitive to give any more info away than this!
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As of now, I have:
Fra v Ger. 6
Bra v Col. 3
Arg v Bel. 4
Hol v Cos. 1
Non playing: 9
Kinda worried about not having more in the last match, but tbf it’s probably the match with the least interesting players, maybe except some defenders/keepers…
Robben is the only essential player in quarters i think.
Made a very rough team in 15 minutes and this is the coverage I can get for now:
France vs Germany: 4
Brazil vs Col: 4
Argentina vs Belgium: 4
Netherlands vs Costa Rica: 4
Wow, 4 players for each match.
Rest are 1M fillers from Iran and Algeria.
Made some changes:
Fra v Ger. 5
Bra v Col. 2
Arg v Bel. 4
Hol v Cos. 3
Non playing: 9
Still not happy with the lack of depth though…
Cillessen or Navas? Think primarily points, not money.
Can really ask the same about Gonzalez and De Vriij too…
Guess in both cases the Dutch players would be most likely to get CS, while the Costa Ricans would be expected to get more saves, blocked shots and similar.