The last sixteen round of the Fantasy Football Scout World Cup of FPL reaches its conclusion this week.
Six names have already booked their places in next week’s quarter-finals but we still have two more matches to go.
Before we look at those ties in more detail, let’s find out the results of the most recent match-ups.
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Last Sixteen – Match 5
- Thiery Henry – 72.79%
- Robin van Persie – 27.21%
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Thierry Henry won the battle of the Arsenal strikers.
The Frenchman is the club’s greatest player of the Premier League era and even though his Fantasy exploits were a long time ago, they shone through.
Robin van Persie was an essential premium forward more recently, but that did not stop Henry comfortably progressing to the quarter-finals with 72.79% of the vote.
Last Sixteen – Match 6
- Cristiano Ronaldo – 76.21%
- Didier Drogba – 23.79%
Cristiano Ronaldo is also cruising into the next round with a similar margin of victory.
He met Chelsea’s legendary striker Didier Drogba in the second round, but still managed to win 76.21% of the vote.
Ronaldo will meet Henry in the quarter-finals, arguably one of the hardest-to-call ties of the last-eight.
CURRENT STANDINGS
SUAREZ VS ALONSO
Two very different Fantasy assets go head-to-head in the latest knockout match.
Luis Suárez held the record for most points scored in a single season (295) before Mohamed Salah joined Liverpool.
The Uruguayan is remembered best for that 295-point campaign in 2013/14 when he scored 31 goals and assisted another 17 although the preceding one was also impressive.
In 2012/13, his second full season at Liverpool, Suárez scored 23 goals and provided 11 assists for his colleagues.
However, Marcos Alonso remains something of a cult hero in the Fantasy community for his ability to find advanced positions.
The Spaniard really came to prominence when Antonio Conte introduced a 3-4-3 system at Chelsea.
Between 2016/17 and 2018/19, Alonso registered double-figures for clean sheets across the three campaigns, registering 30 attacking returns in that time too.
AGUERO VS BAINES
Two more cult heroes meet in this final last-sixteen match as Sergio Aguero goes up against Leighton Baines.
Manchester City’s talismanic striker has been a near-essential asset for close to a decade, scoring at least 20 goals in six of the last eight seasons and registering double-digit figures for assists on three occasions.
Aguero remains a key asset even now, already on 20 goal involvements for the 2019/20 season at this current point of suspension.
However, Baines should not be overlooked, having managed the same number of appearances in an end-of-season Dream Team as Aguero – the two players on three-a-piece.
The Everton defender’s success was less driven by sheer attacking output, as is the case with Aguero, but by value at the same time.
As a defender, the penalty-taking left-back was able to produce goals, assists, clean sheets and bonus in equal measure during his prime.
