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…
Get in! :big-lol:
You’re morphing into Elle, Kop!
#schadenfreude
I always thought better of you :nono:
#getbackinyourgardentent :mosking:
I’m sure if you check back over my history you’ll see very few comments like this. So I’ll stand by this comment.
You’re right, you don’t usually but you’re his natural successor :rofl: Just trying to save you!
Ah jaysus :suicide:
Fck it. C’mon Lyon
Was it a good game?!!
Not particularly. City struggled, for whatever reason. Lyon hit them on the break. City made mistakes, as they are prone to. Jesus doesn’t have that Kun presence up top when it matters. And for once I think Pep screwed up a bit with his tactics and formation / personnel. Perfect storm for Lyon who just hit them on the break a few times, as I already mentioned.
What QF games we’ve seen. :good:
Wow. Didn’t watch but what the heck is happening?
City knocked out of CL.
Can we say Pep completely failed in Europe? Yet again. Still amazes me he just won the cl with Barca. Not City or Bayern.
City were poor, Raz. Sterling missed an open goal from 6 yards out ( 😯 ) which would have levelled it to 2-2. If that’d gone in here might have inspired a comeback, but alas no.
This + before that Jesus missed a great opportunity which would have given them the lead.
Without Kun, they really miss that superior finisher.
Exactly Raz. 100% this.
Whatever, City will be back looking for revenge in the EPL and make pool waiting for another 30 years before they get their hands on a trophy :yes:
Good one Ivan. :big-lol:
Q. ECL wildcard. Use it for the semis or save it for final?
How many do you have to sell in Semis?
I’ve got 8 going through atm. 5xPSG & 3xBAY
95% chance Bayern will be through and 50% between PSG/Leip.
(1) Do WC with 3 Leip + 2 Bayern + 2 Lyon.
In final you will get at least 5 (in best case 10). You will have 5 FTs to build the squad.
In final, probably out of 11 players, 7 will blank and only 4 will score points. So even if you don’t have 11, its ok.
OR
(2) Pick 3 Leip + 1 Bayern + 1 Lyon and save the WC.
I prefer option 1.
I see Pavard and Di Maria are two players who could be available in final (if the teams are through).
Injuries – might happen, but chances are less.
Actually, I’ve only got 7 for SF because Navas is likely out.
Even I too got Navas in my 8. I am planning to keep Gulacsi alone. Other option is to do Navas to Neuer for a hit/FT. I do not want to waste on a GK.
I have 7 players to sell with no WC. I will probably go with 13.
This is my team for semi final.