World Cup 1st Group Phase Live Match Chat
Welcome to World Cup 1st Group Phase Live Match Chat. The long four year wait is over and so is the tinkering for the first set of matches. We hope that you are happy with the 15 players you ended up with, but even if you decided against playing the fantasy version we still encourage you to partake in the chat below. We are sure there will be plenty to discuss that doesn’t always involve whether you should get assist points for a shot that was blocked or your striker really did touch the ball a la Kane before it went in. Predictor games, brackets, bets on the golden boot are all welcomed here. And yeah, even old school footy chat for those that who are just watching the games for fun and just want to talk about the Joga Bonito.
So that you have them to hand, we will post a screenshot of the substitution rules, transfer allotment, wildcard, boosters and of course we will have times and dates for all matches in this, the first of three group phases/rounds/fixtures or whatever you want to call it.
THE GAMES IN FULL
Thursday June 14th
Russia vs Saudi Arabia 4pm (Group A)
Friday June 15th
Egypt vs Uruguay 1pm (Group A)
Morocco vs Iran 4pm (Group B)
Portugal vs Spain 7pm (Group B)
Saturday June 16th
France vs Australia 11am (Group C)
Argentina vs Iceland 2pm (Group D)
Peru vs Denmark 5pm (Group C)
Croatia vs Nigeria 8pm (Group D)
Sunday June 17th
Costa Rica vs Serbia 1pm (Group E)
Germany vs Mexico 4pm (Group F)
Brazil vs Switzerland 7pm (Group E)
Monday June 18th
Sweden vs South Korea 1pm (Group F)
Belgium vs Panama 4pm (Group G)
Tunisia vs England 7pm (Group G)
Tuesday June 19th
Colombia vs Japan 1pm (Group H)
Poland vs Senegal 4pm (Group H)
SUBSTITUTIONS
TRANSFERS
Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place.
Good luck to most of you, but not all of you for this 1st phase of fantasy World Cup!
And there’s the first goal of the cup!
My 1-0 prediction for this game looking good now
How many minutes to go? 😆
I need one more for my prediction 2-0 😆
I have too for Super 6
D’oh!!!
There she goes my beautiful world…
A clear offside missed, a shove in the back missed, deja vu
15 min: Al-Mayouf is forced to claw the ball away after a deflected shot from Fyodor Smolov threatens to loop over his head and into the Saudi Arabia goal. There was a clear offside in the build-up, but the linesman miss
3m ago
16:16
12 min: Yuri Gazinsky scores the opening goal of the 2018 World Cup, leaping high (and possibly shoving his marker in the back) to guide a cross from the left past Abdullah Al-Mayouf and inside the left upright.
Afternoon all
So this is what I ended up with.
Good luck everyone and enjoy
Looks great!! Really like that team, a very nice “Neymar team”!!
Cheers Zed
Egyptian FA state that Mo Salah is fully fit to play.
2-0 :bouncy-balls:
:no:
emoji fail, I reckoned there has to be a :no: but there is not then… 😆
I capped Golovin! If he does more in the second half I might just leave the armband on him! Is there BPS in this tournament?
No BPS
Ah grand cheers Zed.