Fantasy Euro 2012 Gameweek 1

carlcon

darego wrote: »

well VP was a let down. ibra or young for captaincy?

Can't imagine England or France conceding many goals in this group, so this is Ibra's main chance to score, IMO.

Likewise, I think this is the game where England are least likely to dominate, so I'd definitely favour Ibra this round.

BKC

darego wrote: »

well VP was a let down. ibra or young for captaincy?

Ibrahimovic -- Ukraine are terrible!

Phoenix Park

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

I think you are confusing substitutions and transfers.

Your squad as it is now stands until the end of matchday one. You can substitute a low-scoring player from your starting XI for a player from your bench who is yet to play. You can do this for all 4 bench players if you so wish.

You have 1 free transfer before the start of matchday 2. If you make that transfer now the player transferred in will not be a part of your squad until matchday 2 starts.

Cheers Guappa, i did indeed mean one free transfer not one free substitution. Picked Samaras over Jelavic originally as wasn't 100% sure whether Jelavic would start...i'll be subbing out Samaras for Ibrahimovic tomorrow. Would only play Jelavic for this game anyway, think he'd struggle to do anything against Spain and Italy.

iroced

Were any of you able to connect to the website ? Wanted to put on a croatian player on the pitch in case they perform but can't log in...
Deadline for matchday substitution isn't over yet is it?

manual_man

Dunne or Keane. Dunne or Keane. Dunne or Keane

iroced

manual_man wrote: »

Dunne or Keane. Dunne or Keane. Dunne or Keane

Could you connect to the website ?

manual_man

iroced wrote: »

manual_man wrote: »

Dunne or Keane. Dunne or Keane. Dunne or Keane

Could you connect to the website ?

Perenially logged in

Don't bother logging out so just go straight back in

iroced

manual_man wrote: »

Perenially logged in

Don't bother logging out so just go straight back in

Aaah Ok. S**** anyway I couldn't connect so expect a croatian CS...:(

carlcon

No strikers for Spain. Madness.

1 Casillas
15 Sergio Ramos
17 Arbeloa
3 Piqué
18 Jordi Alba
10 Fàbregas
6 Iniesta
14 Xabi Alonso
8 Xavi
21 David Silva
16 Busquets

Italy start Balotelli. Madness.

1 G. Buffon
19 L. Bonucci
3 G. Chiellini
16 D. De Rossi
21 A. Pirlo
5 Thiago Motta
2 C. Maggio
8 C. Marchisio
13 E. Giaccherini
10 A. Cassano
9 M. Balotelli

iroced

carlcon wrote: »

No strikers for Spain. Madness.

You may be proven right but I would not say madness knowing that they're playing Barcelona tactical system .
I agree that they don't have a "Messi" though...

greendom

iroced wrote: »

You may be proven right but I would not say madness knowing that they're playing Barcelona tactical system .
I agree that they don't have a "Messi" though...

Yet they do have Torres and Llorente

carlcon

iroced wrote: »

You may be proven right but I would not say madness knowing that they're playing Barcelona tactical system .
I agree that they don't have a "Messi" though...

They are by no means weak without a striker, but with Torres, Llorente, and Negredo all fit and available, seems like a strange choice to me to play Fabregas instead.

Having Torres or Llorente as main target man, with Iniesta and Silva playing off him is a much better system than the Barca one, IMO. That system is specifically designed to accommodate Messi, so without Messi, you've got a faulty system.

Still expect Spain to win, though.

greendom

carlcon wrote: »

They are by no means weak without a striker, but with Torres, Llorente, and Negredo all fit and available, seems like a strange choice to me to play Fabregas instead.

Having Torres or Llorente as main target man, with Iniesta and Silva playing off him is a much better system than the Barca one, IMO. That system is specifically designed to accommodate Messi, so without Messi, you've got a faulty system.

Still expect Spain to win, though.

Another reason Barca have been adopting that line-up is that their best striker is injured.

carlcon

Di Natale (who should have started) just came on for Balotelli and scored.

Assist pending...

Pirlo assist?

carlcon

Fabregas equaliser, Silva assist.

iroced

As carlcon pointed out, maybe Spain with Lorente as the "target" man upfront would have opened more "breaches" into the Italian defense.
Torres has still not retrieved his top level. He should have scored at least one of his great chances.

Skippy44

Torres lucky even to be in the squad imo. Has looked a shadow of the player he was for some time now. The only meaningful goal he's scored in a while was against barcelona as far as I can remember. Very poor again today. Mon Ireland !!

alchemist33

Strinic CS gone.

Yeah!!!

8-10

Advice please. Current captain has 6pts. (as in 3pts x2)

Do I take these 6pts, as everyone seems to be low scoring, or switch captain to either Young, seb Larsson or Shevchenko?

I'm inclined to keep the 6...

manual_man

8-10 wrote: »

Advice please. Current captain has 6pts. (as in 3pts x2)

Do I take these 6pts, as everyone seems to be low scoring, or switch captain to either Young, seb Larsson or Shevchenko?

I'm inclined to keep the 6...

Lash it on Laarson

KevIRL

56 points after todays games, but thats gonna be reduced to 51 points as I empty my bench ahead of tomorrows games. 51 with 4 to play then

manual_man

KevIRL wrote: »

56 points after todays games, but thats gonna be reduced to 51 points as I empty my bench ahead of tomorrows games. 51 with 4 to play then

Way above average I'd say. I'm thinking you have Dzagoev for a start

KevIRL

manual_man wrote: »

Way above average I'd say. I'm thinking you have Dzagoev for a start

952nd overall, but hard to read too much into positions at this extremely early stage. Ya Dzagoev as capt, and also Mandzukic, Jelavic providing the bulk of my points. Szczesny in goal proving a major PITA:(

manual_man

KevIRL wrote: »

manual_man wrote: »

Way above average I'd say. I'm thinking you have Dzagoev for a start

952nd overall, but hard to read too much into positions at this extremely early stage. Ya Dzagoev as capt, and also Mandzukic, Jelavic providing the bulk of my points. Szczesny in goal proving a major PITA:(

Yeah way early at this stage. I imagine some of the big players that drew blank in this round will come good in the second matches. Hoping for a haul from Ibra tomorrow to leave me with some Gameweek1 respectability

Skippy44

I've 59 points, with 3 bench players to play tomorrow (m olsson, debuchy and yarmolenko) plus Benzema and Zlatan already on, nothing to lose really if I take Alba, Maniatas and Muller off. Any opinions?

BKC

KevIRL wrote: »

Szczesny in goal proving a major PITA:(

Indeed. I had planned to substitute him for Casillas but he went and got himself sent off!

Mr. Guappa

Captain St.Ledger did the business.

48 points but I'll be subbing out Chalkias (3), RVP (2) and Jordi Alba (2) for Lloris, Young and Benzema, so effectively 41 with 3 to play.

G.K.

Gaaak - Jelavic and Andersen sitting on the bench there with 13 points between them, and so many lower scoring players out there...

KevIRL

Skippy44 wrote: »

I've 59 points, with 3 bench players to play tomorrow (m olsson, debuchy and yarmolenko) plus Benzema and Zlatan already on, nothing to lose really if I take Alba, Maniatas and Muller off. Any opinions?

Sub out anyone with 2 points or less anyway, unless one of your bench is unlikely to start.

Skippy44

Have subbed out Alba (2), Maniatis (2), and Muller (2). In come Olsson, Debuchy, and Yarmolenko. Fingers x'ed