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!
Snookie Bear
Captain : Carrasco or Meunier?
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
I’m going Carrasco. I dont have Meunier though.
The way the captains, Ronaldo apart, have been going who knows.
Supposedly Meunier is playing in an advanced wide position and should at least pick up a clean sheet. Maybe you should take a punt!
Cookie
Morning lads,
Lukaku for me ce soir though Meunier is tempting. Ask Init about my record of captaining defenders…..
Snookie Bear
If I had Luka it would be definitely him, hope they can hold Panama atleast with all big teams performing poor
IvanTheTerrible
Yes, Luka for me as well.
Than again, who knows in this exciting WC 😆
Cookie
Haven’t seen one match yet! Will be watching the future World Champs this evening, assuming the kids go to bed as planned!
Were Germany completely rubbish?
IvanTheTerrible
Germany weren’t that bad but Mexico were very well organised and deserved the win.
My newly adopted team is Iceland 😎
Cookie
the blonde isn’t wrong. Which makes a change!
IvanTheTerrible
There are 300 000 Iceland supporters travelled to Russia.
That is 10% of their population. You have to admire them 🙂
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Morning (almost afternoon) Cookie.
I’m looking forward to watching England tonight. Really hope the natural innocence of youth will shine through and they play with a bit of freedom. I’ve seen so many England teams in the past being absolutely stifled by fear.
Cookie
GP, hi mate, you ok?
I hope you are suitably entertained this evening – but don’t get your hopes up
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Haha. I think it will be tough. Tunisia aren’t mugs.
Currently watching this between school runs.
Love the World Cup!
Nike_007
I have Griezmann set as my Captain, sitting on 16 points right now. The viable options left now are Forsberg, Lukaku and Falcao.
Is it worth switching? If I were to switch the most likely option would be Lukaku, but is it worth gambling?
IvanTheTerrible
Everyone is going Lukaku for today. It will be shocking if he doesn’t at least match Griezmann’s score.
Snookie Bear
You can’t keep Luka as C now as teams are locked for todays matches so I would keep on Griez now
Nike_007
Actually I had 15 minutes left to go and managed to sneak it in. He scored a brace courtesy excellent work from Kevin and Hazard, and made it worth. But I was surely worried when he wasn’t scoring.
Thanks for the assist.
IvanTheTerrible
Sweden vs South Korea
DMC
Sons everywhere in this one too.
Cookie
Arthur Miller would be proud
secretzorro
My Serbs are all sons of Viches
Zed Leppelin
I’m at Riga, Latvia and saw a huge crowd of Colombians all wearing national jerseys!! Tourists of course! I blended in and chatted a bit about footie with some of them, great times!! They feel Columbia can go all the way!!
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Mito will be mad with you.
That started off so well but you’ve made the gravest error in the last sentence …
secretzorro
As long as no Colombian score an own goal, that’s all I ask.
Zed Leppelin
Yep, we’ll said SZ!
Zed Leppelin
*well said
Zed Leppelin
Don’t see the logic there, but I’ll let all flowers bloom and cross-fertilize!
The Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Check your spellings
Zed Leppelin
Haha now I get it :big-lol:
IvanTheTerrible
Let’s hope they keep the jerseys. Not like the Nigerians 😆
Snookie Bear
Granqvist goal
Have him!!!!!!!!!!!
So many penalties this time almost all matches had one ! Effect of VAR I think !!
IvanTheTerrible
Belgium vs Panama
IvanTheTerrible
Six EPL players starting 🙂
secretzorro
Luka’s only 15% owned…
Colriles
I’m guessing because FPL players remember getting burned by the big fella… #notbitter
IvanTheTerrible
These are the predictions from many pundits.
I hope we are not in for another Blancaku experience like many times in FPL 😮
secretzorro
The way this Cup’s going, a tenner on Tunisia might be worth it.
IvanTheTerrible
I think you could be right here 😯