UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football 2019/20 GW3
The one with Russ…
Hello everyone and welcome to UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football 2019/20 GW3. Who or what is a ‘Russ’, you may well ask. Well, to continue our recent theme of nostaglia for 80’s/90’s sitcoms Russ featured briefly in Friends and so Russ is our poster boy for CL GW’s 3 & 4 because Russ is a mirror image of Ross, and faces up to him a couple of times, with hilarious consequences. Why is this even relevant? Well it’s because GW’s 3 & 4 cross paths in a similar fashion, namely that they are a mirror of each other. If the relevance of that hasn’t sunk in yet we shall expand further shortly and we will also cover the main points of order for the week ahead, the fixtures themselves and how the league table looks right now, as in in our ‘Regs’ one…
Housekeeping GW3
The main points to consider this week are as follows;
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- Transfers
You get two free transfers each week and this one is no different. You can choose to carry one over should you wish, but you will never get more than three in any GW, which means that you should have somewhere between 2 & 3 transfers for this week.
- Transfers
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- Deadlines / Manual Subs / Captain Switches
There are two, essentially. The first and main one is at kick off on Tuesday which is 5.55pm UK time. You will get to see the line-ups of 4 teams prior to it (Shakhtar, D. Zagreb, Atletico & Bayer Leverkusen).
- Deadlines / Manual Subs / Captain Switches
The second is on Wednesday at the same time. This is the one before which you can change your team around, bring in your subs manually and also change your captain to a Wednesday player, if you so wish.
When setting your team up just make sure that all of your ‘Tuesday’ players are on the pitch to begin with, you can then bring your ‘Wednesday’ guys in prior to 5.55pm on that day. Likewise with your captain.
The Russ point…
This juncture is often a good time to deploy your wildcard, or at least focus those 2/3 transfers wisely. The back to back thing means that if you have a few giants playing a few minnows then perhaps now is the time to max out on that. The timing is good too as no groups will have been decided yet so the risk of any major rotation is minimal. The fixture trackers below should be visual enough to pick those particular match-ups out but just in case we would suggest perhaps looking at the likes of Man City, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, PSG, Spurs, Barca and Liverpool.
The Game Itself and the FF247 League Codes
You can access the game here – Fantasy Champions League
We have two leagues running;
Our official FF247 league code is 32NQYUI4KW
This one is the usual open air league that all and sundry are welcome to join; there are about 800 people in it. We have no idea who most of them are!
Our other one, the ‘Regulars League’ is now only open to new entrants via email
Please email us on contact@fantasyfootball247.co.uk if you want the code.
We did ask that people respected the purpose and integrity of this one; that is to say that you should only enter it if you consider yourself to be a Regular Community member on here. But this was unfortunately not adhered to. The phrase ‘this is why we can’t have nice things’ springs to mind. As a result we have booted about 50 people out of it who we do not recognise. If you find yourself suspended and feel you shouldn’t be then please just say so in the comments below and we shall happily reinstate you.
The Regulars League Table
The Top 10 as we stand…
UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football Tracker
And the Fixtures themselves.
As ever please feel free to post any RMT’s or questions in the comments below.
I still can’t decide whether to keep the armband on Kun or go for Lewandowski. The guy is on fire with already 3 goals in two UCL games and 12 for Bayern in 8 Bundesliga games :wacko:
think you’ve answered your own question here 😉
Cheers Zed, I think I will follow my guts this time and go with him :yes:
I have 1 FT left and doubt Dilva will play. Any suggestions in the range of 7.5?
I’m not playing CL fantasy this year so I honestly have no idea!!!
Is that good to go?
Nice Frenchie :good2:
Yip. Nice balance
Salah in, TAA out
https://www.goal.com/en/news/salah-returns-to-liverpool-training-but-alexander-arnold-out/1pv7h0x2cnll31d5zksiisejpa
TAA getting a nice rest then!
Oops, I need to replace him then.
I guess it will be a straight swap to Robertson for me, I don’t really have the time to tinker more than that!
How long before kick off must the squad be completed? 1hr?
What time and where are the official line ups posted?
Thanks!
My wildcard then.
Good team. In case you have .5m left, Napoli GK has not let in any goals so far. Would change mine (same as yours) if I had an xtra transfer.
What is the cutoff time for submitted the team? What time and where are the official starting line ups posted?
All the best!
No money left bees, but thanks.
I think you get up until kick off on the first game at 1755. According to the site, it says “TEAM LOCK 1855 ” (which is 1755 British time)
Always best to go to twitter for line ups. If you don’t use that the app FotMob is always quite quick. It’s really good for the scores as well.
Thanks GP!
Going back and forth betw/ Aguero and Lewy for (c). You set on Lewy?
Lewy and Mahrez I mean.
Lewandowski for me
Hey lads,
Tempted to WC my UCL team to:
Lewanbrewski / Suarez / Higuain
Mahrez / Gnabry / Di Maria / Ziyech / Tousart
Meunier / Pavard / Tagliafico / Lodi / Orban
Navas / Vlacho
0itb.
I think everyone should start… any glaring issues?
Cheers!
P.S. Init — still can’t sign into UCL regular’s league mate!
Looks OK but I can see Liverpool dishing out a couple of big wins in the next two Sanchez.
I thought about Firmino and/or Mane. You think the Man U game was just an anomaly? They looked toothless…and the first game is away at Genk.
RB took six from Genk in the first match. I’m sure if Liverpool click they could get near that too.
Maybe Salah back in the team will help too.
Hopefully yeah.