Dugout Discussion

Dugout Discussion – Portugal vs Iceland

14 June 2016 645 comments
J0E J0E
Share:

Tuesday’s second Euro 2016 match sees Portugal take on Iceland, the smallest nation to ever reach the European Championship finals.

Despite using just 20 players during qualifying, Iceland came second in a tough group, which also included Holland and the Czech Republic, to reach their first major tournament. While their confidence will be further buoyed by a 4-0 friendly victory over Lichtenstein, the Scandinavians, who are under the dual management of Lars Lagerback and Heimir Hallgrimsson, also recorded a 3-2 loss against Norway during their pre-tournament preparations.

Fernando Santos’ Portugal topped their qualifying group and are veterans of the final stages of this competition, having reached the semi-finals in four of their last six appearances. Cristiano Ronaldo will be heavily relied on having scored or assisted nine of Portugal’s 21 goals since his European Championship debut in 2004. The Real Madrid forward also comes into the competition in good recent form, scoring a brace as Portugal beat Estonia 7-0 during their pre-tournament build up.

J0E Podcaster and writer. Tweets stats and stuff via @FFScout_Joe Follow them on Twitter

645 Comments Login to Post a Comment
  1. England's Number 1
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    It all started so well. 66 points, Junuzovic (c) 2. Had to captain my worst player didn't I?

    Open Controls
  2. GreennRed
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Don't panic lads !

    No matter how some of your players have done they'll nearly all play rounds 2 and 3. You have at least 11 starters and a hit is 4 points. Wildcarding in QF where there's just 4 FT makes more sense to me as you can rearrange all 15, get 2 or 3 cheap fodder and max the rest. Wildcarding for 3 or 4 players this early is a waste.

    Open Controls
  3. Jay_
      9 years, 8 months ago

      What number is Guerriero?

      Open Controls
      1. Blue&White85
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        5.

        Open Controls
      2. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        5

        Open Controls
      3. Jay_
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Cheers lads

          Open Controls
      4. Dušan Citizen
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Gunnarson is literally beard goals. *_*

        Open Controls
      5. dmcqt
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Fun fact: if you accidentally hit autotranslate in Google Chrome for the official Euro fantasy game page, some of the names of players will be translated. I was looking at my team and wondering who "daughter" and "animal" might be. Turns out they're Alaba and Dier. Any other good ones?

        Open Controls
        1. George Sillett
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Tosspenguin.

          Open Controls
          1. KingNidge
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            🙂

            Open Controls
        2. KingNidge
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Pepe.. Tosspenguin

          Open Controls
        3. Golden Goal
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Why does this only work if u accidentally hit it?

          Open Controls
          1. Slam
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            Epic?

            Open Controls
          2. dmcqt
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 16 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            Even works when deliberate too.

            I see Milik is "owned." Götze becomes "idol." Quite amusing!

            Open Controls
        4. England's Number 1
          • 12 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Dragovic translates to 'idiot'. I presume.

          Open Controls
      6. HurriKane
        • 13 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Have a sneaky feeling Iceland will nick a 1-0 win

        Open Controls
      7. The Welsh Pirlo
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Do you reckon it's going to be worth it to keep Janko after the awful austrian performance?

        Open Controls
        1. Golden Goal
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          No honestly mate I'd sell him tbh

          Open Controls
        2. KingNidge
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Yes they looked very good going forward for the most part he will get chances

          Open Controls
        3. HurriKane
          • 13 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          no way. just sell him right now. was very poor

          Open Controls
      8. millave
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        What do you guys think will be the lineup for England against Wales?

        Open Controls
        1. KingNidge
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Both unchanged i would imagine

          Open Controls
        2. Wilshere Knowledge
          • 12 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Same lineup I reckon.

          Performance itself wasn't atrocious, and I don't think Roy will replace Kane after 1 game.

          Open Controls
      9. Slam
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        After subbing in my Austrian players I went from 55 points... to 50! 😕
        On another note, I've become a member again 🙂 Hopefully that will spark some fantasy form 🙂

        Open Controls
        1. Jazz!
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          🙁 Austrians didn't help us. Looks like Belgium have won even though we were the 3rd highest scoring team in the entire competition yesterday 😕 Hopefully we'll bounce back and beat Sweden 🙂

          Open Controls
          1. Slam
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            Yes, it's not over. Is FFFrog having the 4 best 3rd place finishers qualify?

            Open Controls
      10. Shels
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Iceland look good, could have maybe added a player or 2 from them in fantasy

        Open Controls
      11. StayClasie
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        FT Useage

        A) Glik-> Giaccherini
        B) Juno -> ???

        Open Controls
      12. VS10_
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Ronaldo kicking the ground and wants a free kick haha.

        Open Controls
        1. Wilshere Knowledge
          • 12 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Was a pretty blatant foul by the grass, tbf.

          Open Controls
          1. Shels
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            🙂

            Open Controls
      13. The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Book the cheating

        Open Controls
        1. The Bandit
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          New form of censorship, just delete the offending word and not the whole post 😀

          Open Controls
          1. KingNidge
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            Haha

            Open Controls
      14. George Sillett
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Is that a real tan or does cr7 have a slight orange tinge ?

        Open Controls
      15. Liastro ⭐️
        • 13 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Are most wildcarding tonight?

        Open Controls
        1. Jazz!
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Not me, I'm struggling to see where I should use my FT let alone the WC 😆

          Open Controls
          1. Freshy
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 15 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            between Perisic and Giaccherini for me

            Open Controls
            1. Jazz!
              • 11 Years
              9 years, 8 months ago

              To bring in or take out?

              Open Controls
        2. The Welsh Pirlo
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          I have to with my team not achieving anywhere near what I expected.
          Ahem ahem, austria...

          Open Controls
      16. CFC1990
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Who would you say looks the better Sun Euro 2016 Dream Team option out of Silva and KDB?

        Thanks

        Open Controls
        1. Jazz!
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Not a fan of either but KDB, probably.

          Open Controls
        2. HurriKane
          • 13 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          KDB better fantasy option than Silva

          Open Controls
      17. F4L
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Which teams would u want to load up on for a wc team?

        Open Controls
        1. Shels
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Belgium & Italy must play ireland/sweden, something to consider

          Open Controls
        2. VS10_
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Italy defence.

          Open Controls
          1. F4L
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            Any rotation risk at all for giaccherini?

            Open Controls
            1. VS10_
              • 10 Years
              9 years, 8 months ago

              He has competition, but should be good after that goal.

              Open Controls
            2. justmatt
              • 10 Years
              9 years, 8 months ago

              I'm bring him in, he's started the last 4 matches for them. Didn't check any further after that.

              Open Controls
        3. Wilshere Knowledge
          • 12 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Spain defence is the only thing the games thus far have confirmed for me.

          Lots still up in the air, imo.

          Open Controls
      18. GreennRed
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Carvahlo is a filthy fkr. Quality centre back 😉

        Open Controls
        1. KingNidge
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Still got it after all these years.. right out of the Mourinho school that one

          Open Controls
      19. tm245
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Very bizarre, returns from 4 defenders and 3 forwards but all 5 midfielders failed. Granted, Gotze and Hamsik were the only ones of the five that I had ever seen play before, but still...

        Open Controls
        1. Jazz!
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Similar here. Returns from all 5 defenders and my keeper, 6/8 attackers blanked 😕

          Open Controls
          1. tm245
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            How are we looking overall? Alaba was a fail but I did have a CS from Lang to finish on 63.

            Open Controls
            1. Jazz!
              • 11 Years
              9 years, 8 months ago

              Nice. We were quite a margin behind Belgium before today, don't think we've managed to close the gap 🙁 Think we've lost albeit having a great score. Should get the point for the top 6 highest scoring teams though 🙂

              Open Controls
      20. The Welsh Pirlo
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Rank-
        Ozil
        Gotze
        Hazard
        Or is it better worth it getting a cheaper player and upgrading a striker?

        Open Controls
        1. Jazz!
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Ozil
          Hazard
          Gotze

          Open Controls
          1. Jazz!
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            Not a fan of either though

            Open Controls
        2. Golden Goal
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Ozil
          Hazard
          Gotze
          How did u do this week?

          Open Controls
          1. The Welsh Pirlo
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            Not great at all, I would be doing well, however, if Dragovic didn't get red carded and kept a clean sheet and Junusovic didn't get injured, but oh well...

            Open Controls
            1. Golden Goal
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 8 months ago

              Lol any drastic transfer plans???

              Open Controls
        3. GreennRed
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Not for 4 points. Stick. You still have 4 subs to rotate. Ozil, Hazard, Gotze.

          Open Controls
      21. ★Kuntheman★
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Never really felt the "hiding behind the sofa analogy". (C)ristiano Ronaldo is giving me my first dosage.

        Open Controls
      22. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        62 points, thanks to Dragovic whom I at least had the presence of mind not to captain. Not bad. 10K rank or so, I presume?

        Open Controls
      23. VS10_
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        What a save

        Open Controls
      24. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Wow, great save

        Open Controls
      25. The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Fani

        Open Controls
      26. tm245
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Am reading a lot of wild card posts, but isn't each matchday in the opening round a very different strategic beast?

        Form is only mildly helpful since circumstance becomes a major factor in how teams line up, use tactics, etc. from match to match as the table becomes most important.

        I think the stage where the possible teams go from 16 to 8 will probably be the most enticing one for a WC since the pool of players is so dramatically impacted. Plus, we get unlimited transfers before the round of 16 as it is.

        Open Controls
        1. KingNidge
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Let the wildcarders do their thing

          Open Controls
          1. tm245
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            Yeah, watch the midpriced midfielders run wild in matchday two. Not much information to bank on from one match besides a defensive move or two, IMO.

            Open Controls
            1. KingNidge
              • 10 Years
              9 years, 8 months ago

              Exactly

              Open Controls
        2. Jazz!
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          So WC for Quarter Finals? I'm considering that

          Open Controls
          1. tm245
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            That is the plan right now, not much I want to change in my team so far.

            Open Controls
        3. Backup Dancer
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Definitely considering that. May just save a transfer for gw3.

          Open Controls
      27. Jazz!
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Great save by who

        Open Controls
        1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          ICE

          Open Controls
          1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 8 months ago

            ISL, even.

            Open Controls
      28. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Portugal ignoring guerreiro runs

        Open Controls
      29. Ayew Serious
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Ronaldo is crap

        Open Controls
      30. Wilshere Knowledge
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Ronaldo is no Giacherinni.

        Open Controls

      You need to be logged in to post a comment.