While interest from Fantasy managers was high in last night’s encounter between Argentina and Croatia, there is little at stake in this meeting between their Group D rivals at 4pm today.
The most-selected Iceland and Nigeria assets on show in Volgograd are budget picks, with Super Eagles goalkeeper Francis Uzoho (£4.0m) the only player in either squad with an ownership of over 10%. Defender Bryan Idowu, also listed at £4.0m, features in 5% of Fantasy squads, meanwhile.
No goalkeeper scored more Gameround 1 points than Iceland’s Hannes Halldorsson (£5.0m), whose penalty save from Lionel Messi has attracted modest interest: the filmmaker-turned-footballer is now owned by 2.9% of McDonald’s FIFA players.
Emil Hallfredsson (£4.5m) is yet another bargain-bin buy with sizeable backing: the Iceland midfielder is owned by 4.2% of Fantasy managers.
Gylfi Sigurdsson and Alfred Finnbogason (£6.5m), who were both involved in their country’s equaliser in the 1-1 draw with Argentina, are very much Fantasy differentials, with ownerships of less than 2%.
The Starting Line-ups:
ICELAND XI (4-4-2): Halldorsson; Magnusson, R Sigurdsson, Arnason, Saevarsson; Bjarnason, Gunnarsson, G Sigurdsson, Gislason; Bodvarsson, Finnbogason.
NIGERIA XI (4-5-1): Uzoho; Idowu, Troost-Ekong, Balogun, Omeruo; Musa, Mikel, Ndidi, Etebo, Moses; Iheanacho.
World Cup Data
We’re delighted to offer World Cup data as an early addition to our regular season offering to help those playing Fantasy games over the summer.
We’ve secured Opta data, not only for the tournament itself, but also from the Qualifying Rounds for Europe and South America and for international friendlies involving the participating nations. This includes all the matches played right up to the tournament kick-off.
Just to stress, this World Cup offering comes packaged with the regular Fantasy Football Scout membership.
Check out this new trailer previewing the World Cup content below…
McDonald’s FIFA World Cup Fantasy
Join our McDonald’s FIFA World Cup Fantasy league ‘FantasyFootballScout’ using the code: HEWJPVYR
Fantasy iTeam
Fantasy Football Scout is supporting Fantasy iTeam, a free World Cup game available on a number of mobile devices, including iPhone, iPad, iPodTouch and Android. We have an official Fantasy Football Scout League open to UK users only, with a £1000 of Amazon vouchers to give out, split between the top three performers. There’s also the small matter of £10k worth of prizes available in the main competitions: Overall World Championship and Manager of the Gameround.
Click here for details and here to sign up.
Our League name is Fantasy Football Scout and the pin is 1887.
Please note, users must be over 18 and based in the UK to join our league.
