UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football 2019/20 Last 16 – 2nd Leg, Part 2!
Hello everyone and welcome to UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football 2019/20 Last 16 – 2nd Leg, Part 2!.
Right then, forget that Scottish nonsense, real football is back on Friday! (In fairness it’s doing a roaring trade and has attracted over 400 comments as we speak). But come on you CL’ers, time to stand up, do us proud and put that particular Scotch Egg back in its basket (and no, I don’t mean GP).
We begin again on Friday and essentially we pick up where we left off way back in March. But it’s a bit weird as we are basically half way through the 2nd part of the last 16. Four of the quarter finalists are already decided, the other four are still to be decided as those eight teams need to complete their 2nd legs of the original ties. And only then can we move on onto the rest of the tournament. And you yourselves will have been left in limbo, half-way between rounds with subs next on the agenda. Confused yet? Don’t worry, we got you..
So what do you really need to know this week…
It’s as you were…
It looks like the game is literally restarting where we left off. There are no extra transfers, no wildcard or unlimited transfers as per FPL. Essentially we were part way through a GW and so you just have to crack on as if the last 5 months never happened, which a lot of us wish hadn’t, ironically.
In theory you should find your team with points from the completed first half of the last 16, ready for you to bring in any manual subs for the final four games, a bit like this:
That’s mine, and so it looks like I’m all set to bring in a few bench players to replace my lower scorers. You should find yourselves with something similar.
The Fixtures and Subs
Which brings us on to the fixtures as these games are still split over two days, as follows:
And we can still make changes between the two, so in my example above I’ll initially be subbing in my Juve guys before Friday’s deadline and then I can bring in Gnabry on Saturday, if necessary.
Captain
Suffice to say I won’t be touching my captain but if you weren’t so lucky to have put it on the legend that is IIicic then you can move it before Friday and then again on Saturday if necessary.
Deadline(s)
The main one is the first one of course which is Friday 7th August at 8pm GMT. Which is kick off time too so you will at least have the benefit of seeing the team sheets for all of Juve, Lyon, Man City and Real Madrid. Your subs will need to be done by then.
The next one is Saturday 8th August again at 8pm.
Beyond that?
You then get unlimited transfers once again ahead of the quarter-finals, 5 for the semis and 5 for the final itself.
Those games themselves are schedulded as follows:
Quarters
12th August Atalanta v PSG
13th August RB Leipzig v Atletico Madrid
14th August Napoli / Barca v Chelsea / Bayern
15th August Real Madrid / Man City v Lyon / Juve
Semis
18th August
19th August
Final
23rd August
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 over 1000 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.
The Regulars League Table
The Top 10 as we stand…
(Apologies for it clearly being my screenshot and not a neutral one but DMC usually provides that and he had the temerity to step into the top 10 this time and therefore couldn’t provide one. I did ask Elle to do so but he sent me something akin to a screenshot of Space Invaders from his Amstrad).
Should be fairly straight-forward this week but if you have any queries just post them in the comments below and as always ask questions, post teams and generally just have a good natter…
***NEW ARTICLE- CL RETURNS***
Back on the CL horse on Friday folks.
Great stuff, thanks Init :good:
I see, it couldn’t go without a special mention of IIicic :laugh2:
Of course, and a not so subtle picture reminder :rofl:
I bet you have it framed on your bedroom wall, time to add Edward :rofl:
Sods Law I actually forgot about the game! I’ve been Go-Karting with the boys but it was a nice surprise when I got home.
Won’t be that impactful as I imagine he was probably the most captained player anyway.
For me is just going through the motions after missing the first round. For the new season I am setting alarm :yes:
Thanks, great article!
:biggun: The Champions league is dead…. :suicide:
Long live the new kings of fantasy footie
FANTASY FOOTIE SCOTLAND.. :yahoo: :dance: :excited: :superman:
Apologies for the interruption. Or is that because you are 106 off the top? :popcorn: :rofl:
:hippo:
Evening Init
Just logged into mine and it all came a-flooding back. :yes:
Thanks for the article mate. Great job.
Looks like you are well set for a bumper score this week. Possibly a ton.
Four players who are all big ones, you could be right.
Won’t change my GK obviously.
Or your Captain Ilicic
Imagine not having him or captaining him. :wacko:
Thanks Init, with FFS, CL starting up and the fixtures for Bundesliga coming out on Friday it feels like it is all kicking off again.
Mito, what are you on about? Bundesliga starts on the 18th of September :blink:
I said the fixtures coming out on Friday. :punish:
Ah :drinks:
One thing worth mentioning is that after Saturday, you can pick up to 5 players from the same team if you wish. (6 for semi and 8 for final)
Thanks for this Init. Somewhat conflicted login’ in to find out we are mid-GW in UCL and can’t do nothin ‘xcept substitutions, but chuffed to relive the Ilic (c) windfall (as I’m sure you’ve been doing all along). Gotta nail this won to make up for a final day loss in EPL fantasy to my mate/enemy in Thailand. Was mathematically tied going into the last game and pretty much lost on not having KDB after having him pretty much the whole season. Went w/ Silva (c) instead (plus Sterling and Jesus) cuz he’s f’n Silva, one of the great Spanish players to have graced the PL, and thought he’d get an appropriate send-off. Not w/ these Citeh gits. Seriously tho, will be sad to see him leave the prem, and Foden has some big shoes to fill.
In any case hoping for a tidy finish in UCL.
Have any of you UCLers thought about which teams are going to progress? Have PSG/Lyon even played since the global meltdown? Are Chelski even gonna be able to field a team (ffs, why did Pulisic have to get injured)?
Prolly bet on one of the B-teams — Bayern/Barca — or maybe on the A-team (Atalanta). Mind you both Man City and Real Madrid as well as Napoli have been in form after the restart…