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…
So far I did not see any Barca and Lyon players in any of the teams. Is it an educated guess from everyone that Bayern and City will go through?
W/ Lyon at least, the only players even worth considering are Memphis Depay, Dembélé (if he starts) or maybe Aouar but they don’t really score loads of goals and doubt they will score more than 1 against City. And you got a lot of better options in both the fwd and mic category. W/ Barca you could go Messi or Suarez but it’s tough to pick them knowing they are not at their best (compared to other seasons) and Bayern are in very good form right now. Messi/Suarez could score but you could argue you got better options in Lewy, Neymer/Icardi/Mbappe, Jesus and others. I might be tempted to put Messi in though even if they might not go through as we do have 5 transfers for the next round.
can’t see City not going through at all. Have to go with the City players there. Don’t see who from Lyon will do well against them, they might not even score at all. Bayern and Barca will be so hard to call. Think Bayern is the form team, and Barca has not been playing very well I think.
A very quick draft. Any amendments to be done :scratch_one-s_head:
Illicic hasn’t played for several games now unfortunately Ivan.
No Illicic for Atalanta (he is out on a mental distress for a while and has no plan to come back).
OK, thanks guys. Hopefully I will be home before 8 PM and have a proper look.
Ivan, I want a MC def but so unclear who will start. Currently have Cancelo…and Garcia would be great if only he starts lol.
How are you doing mate? Looking forward to new season FF I am sure.
Man, ‘El Cholo’ really likes to tinker w/ his back line. Can’t figure out who might start: Felipe, Gimenez, Savic, Trippier, Lodi, Arias, Sanchez have all started in the past several games.
My best guess is that it will be Lodi, Savic, Gimenez and Trippier.
And that guess is not really mine but from a Spanish paper and Atleti fan accounts.
Thanks, Mito. That’s who I was kinda guessing also.
Lodi I feel is the most secure after that, it is all a guessing game, selfishly I want Savic to start because he makes it easier because of his price. Originally I had Felipe in my side and have dropped him for Savic.
Yeah, Felipe has started a lot in the CL so tough to call.
Hey guys!
I’ll keep an eye on confirmed lineups at 7 and might do some changes depending on who starts for PSG.
Any thoughts?
Sabitzer or Sarabia?
Tough to nail down mids w/ so many decent options. Who are you lads going w/?
I’ll prolly go w/ Sterling, KDB and Gnabry for starters but rest are up in the air:
Atleti: Joao Felix, Saul, Koke, M. Llorente
Atalanta: Palasic, Gomez
Bayern: Tolisso, Perisic, Davies
Leipzig: Sabitzer, Forsberg
Man City: Foden, Mahrez, Silvas
PSG: Sarabia
I got 5 of those :mosking:
Show us your team you old bugger.
No chance, Den Perry may be watching!
It’s not even finalised yet anyway until we see those teams.
Haha.
l can confirm Den Perry is now officially watching, lol.
I’m too stubborn to be swayed mind…
I got 3 of those :biggun:
Sarabia and Sabitzer for me