With five converted World Cup penalties and 65 points between them, Harry Kane (£11.2m) and Andreas Granqvist (£5.4m) are being backed to continue their fine form in this afternoon’s quarter-final in Samara.

Kane is the tournament’s current leading goalscorer on six goals and is the second-most bought Fantasy asset of this round, having been drafted in by over 250,000 McDonald’s FIFA managers.

The Tottenham Hotspur striker now features in 43% of Fantasy squads and is the most popular pick in attack.

Kane has been particularly ruthless with his opportunities, scoring his half-dozen goals from just nine shots.

Jesse Lingard‘s (£7.5m) ownership has now passed 20%, while there has also been plenty of Fantasy money for John Stones (£5.9m) and penalty shoot-out hero Jordan Pickford (£5.5m) – despite England not keeping a clean sheet in their four World Cup 2018 matches thus far.

Harry Maguire (£4.9m) looks like an intriguing budget differential: the Leicester City centre-back is in just 5.8% of McDonald’s FIFA squads despite having more penalty box touches than any other defender at the World Cup.

Kieran Trippier (£5.5m), creator of more chances than any other defender at the tournament, features in 13.4% of our sides.

No player has offered better value for money than Granqvist, meanwhile: the Swedish centre-half has returned 5.9 points per million spent.

Sweden’s captain has had six attempts on goal so far, scoring twice from the spot while also keeping three clean sheets.

Viktor Claesson (£5.7m), who delivered attacking returns in all three of his group stage appearances, features in 13.2% of Fantasy squads and is Sweden’s next most-owned player.

Goalkeeper Robin Olsen (£5.2m), who like Granqvist has kept three shut-outs this summer, is included in 9.8% of McDonald’s FIFA teams.

Mikael Lustig (£5.6m) misses out today through suspension.

England XI (3-5-2): Pickford; Walker, Stones, Maguire; Trippier, Young, Lingard, Henderson, Dele; Kane, Sterling

Sweden XI (4-4-2): Olsen; Lindelof, Granqvist, Augustinsson, Krafth; Larsson, Ekdal, Forsberg, Claesson; Berg, Toivonen

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 detailing 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.