World Cup Dugout Discussion – Matchday One

None unfortunately.

Cahill and Gerrard good options though imo. Baines could prosper from that balls into the box system too I guess.

I don't even have an English tumbleweed in my team..

Although I might get Ashley Young in for the next round alright.

none. and I never even considered any

Funds didn't allow for any. Would of liked Sturridge, Gerrard and Cahill for my squad

I've got cahill and jagielka in my team. I think the English defense will be pretty solid, even against Italy and Uruguay.

Had Gerrard in my penultimate draft...

Ended up going with Alonso instead... so, none...

Baines for me..

Algerians are so much more fun !
😉

Well I am not expecting to win the car, but I tell you what, I hope baines is on penalties!

None whatsoever, was considering Gerrad but went Ozil
and was considering Cahill, but the price was just too steep.

Lallana for me.

http://en.mcdonalds.fantasy.fifa.com/leagues/18451

its all a big secret, you aren't allowed to know

2.5 points per goal right?

He doesn't, it just says he does in the points breakdown.

Looks like a programming error.

His detailed summary says 5 points for a goal, but his total includes 10 points for 2 goals.

I emailed them about all the problems the other day, I got a reply at long last this am.
It seems they're understaffed in fact it turns out that 1 guy is running the whole site and McDonalds have him serving Burgers in between.

lol

Be happy you can't. Your captain has been changed to Mbholi

French, Argentinian or Belgian defender

Alves makes way for Rojo at the end of this GW for me.

No x2

Rules say winning a penalty is not granted an assist

I'm sure I read no pts for an assist for either pens or free kicks..

It isn't an assist in these rules.

Assuming you mean the McD's game there's no assist for winning a set piece. Think there is in Fox (although their latest points are hilariously wrong), not sure about the others.

and he just might..!!..that'll hurt..

Well i changed from 4-3-3 to 3-4-3 as soon as i saw my croatia defender didn't start (i know lineups were out before but the game kicked off at 4am HK time.

Anyway, it did give me a screen to confirm, and I clicked it almost instantly. Luckily my croatia defender was the furthest right so he got removed, not luiz.

It removes players from the right. So 4-3-3 –> 3-4-3 will remove the far right defender etc.

We need someone to set up a dummy team. Jonty, maybe since he isn't playing and then make changes and report back to us.

Hulk this please.

I don't know if it has been mentioned but think it might be possible to do it in the following sequence:

1) Remove the player who has failed you
2) Change formation
3) Bring in the new player from the bench

But I won't dare to try it unless myself unless I absolutely have to!

Guys, before you change formation, take the player/s out that you are thinking of swapping.

I.e earlier I was fiddling with De Bruyne and Kombarov and 4-4-3 and 3-4-3. Each time I just took them out and it seemed to work. However, they were both furthest right though...

Imagine Wenger turned around with Vidal in arm at the end of the world cup for 27m, nobody would mind then 😉

its a joke how wenger rejected him...if he doesn't get the players we need the usual circus will go down...back to square one in that case

if i m fab i would rather go chelsea tbh..he is more needed there

Presumably Arsenal have enough good midfielders already (when they aren't all out injured).

But why do the Fair Play Rules allow teams like Chelsea to buy up so many top players and then loan them out to teams that they do not consider to be close rivals, so that these players can then play against Chelsea's rivals but not against Chelsea? (I'm not suggesting that they are going to loan out Fabregas, but they have done that with quite a few others).

I think so. My advice would be to wait at least a couple of days until some other posters have done it and found/not found some pitfalls on the crappy McD's site...

Game. If you have Neymar as captain, leave it.

Sanchez and Cillessen

Iniesta for me

Ramos and Cillessen.

2, Alba and Iniesta

Alonso and the Dutch goalie.

Just Cillessen.

Cillessen and the overlooked Vargas

Alba

Chilleyboy and Robben

Blind

Not expecting much out of him

Only Cillessen

Nada

What a boring day

Cillessen, Blind, Iniesta and Sanchez!

Cillessen, Ramos, Alonso & Sanchez

Yup, an upset waiting to happen when a Ghana defender gets 20 points from blocking in a 1-1.

Looking forward to later or dreading it? 🙂

At least we knew in advance.

Tbf typically the highest blockers get around 1 per game, and those players have been priced higher.

We'd be waiting for ages as I doubt his team would count until GW2.

Only going forward cause we can't find reverse...

Yes. It's fantasy, Jim, but not as we know it!

Because Croatian players never scored

Game will be sorted soon.

How much did Cesar score?

Yep, he could be a really good choice against an attacking Colombian side.

Ask after GW3. No control over the team now really.
Looks very template.

Yep pretty solid

Possibly a Brazilian or German defender is missing. I'm not sure about Ozil. Prefer Tony K.

The final, Australia vs Brazil.

Argies v Brazil.

Sure to be a hatefest to end all hatefests.

Brazil V Spain in last 16

Haha...this post should be hulked just for its comic value 🙂

Cillessen, Karnezis, Mbolhi
Durm, Rojo, Von Bergen, Holebas, Medjani, Montazeri
Oscar, Di Maria, Cuadrado, KDB, Valbuena, Lulic, Bentaleb, Bezikadeh
Messi, Neymar (c), Benzema, Lukaku, Heydari

Can't complain so far.

No way

99% will. 1% will change by accident due to the website.

Sure, can't expect many players to score more than 2 goals.
Unless some other stat provides huge points for whatever reason I'm sticking.

No chance - Messi will bag a bucketload in rd 1.

You don't.

@Hamstergod 😕

You need to search for them in the League menu, very user friendly.

The best thing is if you joined a random league, which you don't remember.

I do hope the leagues will be visible after round 1

no one can see the leagues too

Surely a mistake. Does Marcelo have a CS and own goal?

Wrong calculations, I expect them to fix it.

evryone have a cs in fox game... Brazil and Croatia

obviously a mistake that should be sorted out soon

in the morning it was right but somehow it changed lol

🙂

On a phone I would be.

On a phone i wouldn't even click in something of Mcdonalds

i thought i have finalised my team b4 the deadline on the phone..only to realise that half of my team is missing from the starting 11 when i check my score after that. lucky my neymar(c) is still on the pitch.

they missed so much its ridiculous lol

but im sure they will fix it 🙂

Give it a day.

Already? You mean there's more to come?

It's me.

Quality post though 🙂

everyone loves a hamster

Freddie Starr is a member of FFS?

Until kickoff in McDs