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World Cup Fantasy managers turn to Rodriguez and Inui in Group H finale

Japan and Colombia have been backed by Fantasy managers to get positive results from the Group H finale, and progress to the World Cup knockout stages.

James Rodriguez (£9.0m) is the most high-profile asset in action this afternoon with 11.5 percent picking him against Senegal. Despite registering two assists in Colombia’s convincing 3-0 win over Poland, the Real Madrid midfielder has not earned an increase in ownership since Gameround 2.

However, the most popular player in the Group H finale is still Carlos Sanchez (£4.5m), who is expected to return from his one-match suspension earned after being red-carded against Japan.

Colombia’s opponents Senegal are once again not particularly fashionable with Fantasy managers. No player has higher ownership levels than midfielder Salif Sane (£4.5m) who sits in just 5.9 percent of squads. Youssouf Sabaly (£4.0m) remains owned by 4.5 percent of managers.

In the other Group H fixture, Japan’s budget options have proved the most popular, although no player in the match is owned by more than a tenth of McDonald’s FIFA World Cup Fantasy managers.

Takashi Inui (£4.5m) will be the main focus after he scored and assisted in the 2-2 draw with Senegal. His ownership has just about doubled since Gameround 2, rising to 7.1 percent.

In the same number of squads is full-back Hiroki Sakai (£4.0m). A sure starter, he is yet to get a Fantasy return in Russia but registered three assists in qualifying.

Already eliminated Poland have been almost completely deserted by Fantasy managers. Robert Lewandowski (£9.5m) remains their most popular player but has lost three percent ownership since Gameround 2.

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831 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Atimis
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Quintero assist?

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Oh yeah 😎

    2. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Get in 🙂

    3. Norman Conquest
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      lovely stuff

  2. Ógie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    It would be a shame really if Senegal do not progress as they would be the best team not to do so.

    1. Louis_Sans_Balls
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Only African team or only Asia team, who will it be? The suspense is killing me

    2. Debauchy
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Peru imo

  3. FDMS All Starz
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Japan match commentators saying Japan are going out as it stands, Colombia commentators saying Senegal going out...who is wrong, this is madness

    1. Now I'm Panicking
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      There are both out and England get a bye

      1. Red Dagger ✪
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Yeah this.

    2. Skalla
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Senegal out atm due to fair play

    3. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Col
      Jap
      Sen
      Pol

      As it stands.

    4. Red Dagger ✪
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Senegal out I believe.

    5. Louis_Sans_Balls
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Japan trolling their own fans

      1. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        😀

    6. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Flashscores has Senegal progressing but that is wrong as it stands it seems.

      1. Jack Frost
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Agree , Flashscore wrong, Senegal out, fairplay in play.

  4. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Sabaly CS.

    OVADEBA!

    1. OldBenKenobi
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      I needed some luck like that!
      🙂

  5. FDMS All Starz
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    The commentators for the Japan game are hilarious, "they need to score" lol

    1. Now I'm Panicking
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      ITV commentators?

      1. FDMS All Starz
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        BBC, they said how they didn't understand why the Japan fans were cheering lol

        1. Now I'm Panicking
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 11 months ago

          Good to see my license money going to good use.

    2. OldBenKenobi
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      They are walking a tight rope. The do need a goal really but I know what you mean 😉

    3. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      State subsidies getting bang for buck once again.

  6. Debauchy
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    I sniff a late Senegoal

  7. Louis_Sans_Balls
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Think I'll keep Quintero as bench at least

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Same, not much in midfield past Coutinho & Modric.

      1. GREEN IS GOOD
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Isco?

  8. Eden Wizard
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Sabaly clean sheet been wiped BTW if you check

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      You're checking the wrong place.

      1. Eden Wizard
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Found em 😆

    2. Jack Frost
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Going to have to go to the Hague to get Sabaly CS points back.

    3. Eden Wizard
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Sorry I’m wrong been instated!

    4. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Who TF are you trying to kid?

    5. BigBarn
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      I thought in this game a subbed defender still loses CS points even if the goal was scored after they left the field?

  9. CloudSky
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Real Madrid have dropped Cristiano Ronaldo's release clause to €120M. It was previously €1 billion.

    1. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      He is coming home 🙂

      1. CloudSky
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Sporting? 😛

    2. willl
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      100m for a player his age

      come off it perez

      1. CloudSky
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        You mean the guy thats on a goal per match ratio?

  10. Louis_Sans_Balls
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    That header by Mina was insane, just ate the keeper up lol

  11. FER FUSCH AKE
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Damn!!! Am an African but I need that mojica cleanie.

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Another Poland goal = win win.

      1. FER FUSCH AKE
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Poland doesn't look like scoring another here

  12. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Japan just keeping the ball, Poland letting them.

  13. Jack Frost
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Sabaly and Quintero each have 6 points for me, didn't see that coming.

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Apparently someone else here doesn't either...

    2. Monkey Hanger
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Sabaly 2.

  14. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Germany to go through as it stands?

    1. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      😛

      1. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Asking for Joachim Low....

        1. La Roja
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 11 months ago

          :mrgreen:

    2. Arctic monkeys
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Only if Lewandowski scores

    3. Jack Frost
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      There going thru Poland to get home

      1. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        😆

  15. Maddi Son
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Big incentive to win or draw tonight. Japan look so poor.

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Its Japan then Brazil or Colombia then Sweden/Swiss.

      1. Maddi Son
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        I'd still take the first option. Gonna have to face big teams eventually, we need to get past RD16 mentally after Iceland.

      2. CRO KLOPP
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Then CRO

      3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        *licks lips*

        1. Jafooli
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 11 months ago

          You don’t have any lips....

          1. Now I'm Panicking
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 11 months ago

            Fanny lips

            1. Jafooli
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 11 months ago

              😮 😛

          2. La Roja
            • 12 Years
            5 years, 11 months ago

            Nor Richard Keys...

            1. Jafooli
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 11 months ago

              ....hairy hand transplant 😀

      4. Now I'm Panicking
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Don't think England/Belgium should fear any of them. Even Brazil don't look that good.

    2. SW6
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      So have Colombia to be fair

  16. Eden Wizard
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Going out on yellows that’s brutal

    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Bemba will be furious.....

      1. Red Dagger ✪
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Haha!

    2. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Awful way to go out.

  17. Stats Don\'t Lie
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    The way Japan are playing is shambolic and robbing the fan! Hope they get pummeled in the knockouts!

    1. CloudSky
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      By all means necessary.

    2. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      ...Against Brazil, after beating England.

  18. tm245
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Would love a Poland goal so Senegal can go through.

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Poland letting Japan just keep the ball.

      1. tm245
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Ugh.

    2. Eden Wizard
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Yea it’s a shambles there

    3. Stats Don\'t Lie
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Or a Senegal goal

  19. Eden Wizard
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    This japan game is a joke they’re not even trying to score assuming they’re through. Hope Senegal score

    1. Louis_Sans_Balls
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      c'mon let senegal score please

  20. Monkey Hanger
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Japan an embarrassment. The lying keeper, and now this tosh.

  21. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    More energy on the Senegal bench than on the pitch...

  22. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Disgraceful from Japan, just let Senegal score.

    1. Now I'm Panicking
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Bit harsh - what else are they supposed to do?

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Get two yellows and we get to play lots.

  23. GREEN IS GOOD
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Any love for French attacking players? France could hammer Argies.

    1. Weasel Boy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      France are horrible.
      I'd just get their defensive players if any.

  24. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Cruel on Senegal 🙁

    Rest up, Sadio!

    1. Louis_Sans_Balls
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      fans must be gutted!
      should have won that Japan match

  25. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    FT in both games.

    Columbia and Japan through.

  26. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Mane for FPL 18/19 GW1 nailed

    Especially with Salah off to Wolves.

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Wolves the new team in Chechnya?

      1. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 11 months ago

        Grozny Wolves....

  27. tm245
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    One minute of confusion for Senegal when Sabaly was subbed out at the corner kick and their tournament is over. So harsh.

  28. Maddi Son
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Can we have a minutes silence for Sabaly's injury. Godlike status

  29. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    42 pts WC.
    LOL

  30. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 11 months ago

    Senegal coach doesn't have hair. He has a mane.

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      He's Kanu's cousin innit?

    2. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 11 months ago

      Please tell me you didn’t count the posts for that one?