World Cup Fantasy 2022: Predicted line-ups for Matchday 1

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

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Verbruggen

Tarkowski
Muñoz
Thiaw

Foden
Bruno Guimarães
Bruno Fernandes
Minteh

Woltemade
Haaland
Thiago

Dubravka
O’Reilly
Andersen
Damsgaard

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Price Change Predictions

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Woltemade	NEW	7.4m	134.0%	Very Likely
Van Hecke	BHA	4.4m	105.6%	Very Likely
Lammens	MUN	5.0m	100.7%	Very Likely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	95.8%	Maybe
J.Timber	ARS	6.4m	90.1%	Maybe
Raya	ARS	5.9m	78.8%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.1m	74.3%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	89.2%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.7m	85.3%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	84.5%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	83.4%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	85.2%	Unlikely
Szoboszlai	LIV	6.6m	82.9%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	81.0%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.3m	66.2%	Unlikely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	75.5%	Unlikely
J.Palhinha	TOT	5.5m	77.8%	Unlikely
Rogers	AVL	6.9m	77.2%	Unlikely
Neto	CHE	7.2m	61.8%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	71.2%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.8m	68.5%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	72.2%	Unlikely
Saka	ARS	10.1m	62.2%	Unlikely
Amad	MUN	6.3m	65.2%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.8m	62.7%	Unlikely
King	FUL	4.5m	62.3%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	6.0m	55.9%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	55.3%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	54.8%	Unlikely
Lacroix	CRY	5.1m	47.5%	Unlikely
Donnarumma	MCI	5.7m	53.6%	Unlikely
Chalobah	CHE	5.2m	48.3%	Unlikely
Burn	NEW	5.1m	37.8%	Unlikely
Sessegnon	FUL	5.4m	48.0%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.4m	38.2%	Unlikely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	45.9%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	39.1%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	38.1%	Unlikely
Kroupi.Jr	BOU	4.6m	44.0%	Unlikely
Anderson	NFO	5.4m	41.9%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Mbeumo	MUN	8.6m	101.3%	Very Likely
Caicedo	CHE	5.9m	112.5%	Very Likely
Strand Larsen	WOL	6.3m	96.2%	Likely
Vicario	TOT	5.0m	96.7%	Maybe
Rodney	CRY	4.5m	99.3%	Maybe
Pinnock	BRE	4.3m	96.1%	Maybe
Dixon	EVE	3.9m	94.5%	Maybe
Tel	TOT	6.3m	94.5%	Maybe
Lewis	MCI	4.8m	92.3%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.3%	Unlikely
Maguire	MUN	4.4m	92.1%	Unlikely
J.Araujo	BOU	3.9m	93.3%	Unlikely
Coppola	BHA	4.3m	94.8%	Unlikely
Kerkez	LIV	5.7m	90.7%	Unlikely
Mainoo	MUN	4.7m	90.7%	Unlikely
Welch	EVE	3.9m	91.9%	Unlikely
Ortega Moreno	MCI	4.8m	90.5%	Unlikely
George	CHE	4.9m	90.8%	Unlikely
Travers	EVE	4.4m	90.8%	Unlikely
Dasilva	BRE	5.0m	77.6%	Unlikely
Georginio	BHA	5.7m	80.6%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.5m	88.8%	Unlikely
Darlow	LEE	4.0m	86.6%	Unlikely
Boateng	BUR	4.8m	89.4%	Unlikely
Arrizabalaga	ARS	4.2m	84.1%	Unlikely
Mac Allister	LIV	6.3m	84.1%	Unlikely
Abbott	NFO	3.9m	84.8%	Unlikely
Cox	BRE	4.0m	84.0%	Unlikely
McGill	BHA	4.0m	83.2%	Unlikely
Baleba	BHA	4.7m	82.3%	Unlikely
M.Bizot	AVL	4.3m	85.3%	Unlikely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	82.7%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	83.1%	Unlikely
Young	AVL	4.4m	80.8%	Unlikely
Knight	BHA	4.5m	83.4%	Unlikely
Akinmboni	BOU	3.9m	81.2%	Unlikely
Sonne	BUR	3.9m	81.2%	Unlikely
Gannon-Doak	BOU	4.9m	80.6%	Unlikely
Matete	SUN	4.4m	81.6%	Unlikely
Gruev	LEE	4.8m	81.0%	Unlikely

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Watchlists

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C, Vs
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Vs, Sus
Up	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Sels	NFO	C, Vs
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 3:14pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Muñoz	CRY	A, Sus
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C, Vs
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	de Ligt	MUN	C, Vs
Up	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Andersen	FUL	A
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C, Vs
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	B, £
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 2:34pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A, Vs
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A, Vs
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
Up	Gakpo	LIV	A, Vs
No Change	Minteh	BHA	A
Up	Anderson	NFO	A, Vs, £
No Change	Fernández	CHE	B
Up	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 2:44pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

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Team News

20 November 2022 206 comments

Skonto Rigga

This team news page will contain predicted Matchday 1 line-ups for all 32 competing nations in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to hopefully help you with your World Cup Fantasy picks.

The input from the correspondents who contributed to our team previews has been of great assistance but more recent press reports have also been consulted before we came to the predictions below.

Our graphics are taken from Chosen11.

GROUP A

QATAR

ECUADOR

SENEGAL

NETHERLANDS

INJURY CONCERNS: Depay

GROUP B

ENGLAND

INJURY CONCERNS: Maddison, Walker

IRAN

INJURY CONCERNS: Azmoun

USA

INJURY CONCERNS: McKennie

WALES

INJURY CONCERNS: Allen

GROUP C

ARGENTINA

SAUDI ARABIA

MEXICO

POLAND

GROUP D

France

INJURY CONCERNS: Benzema (now out of the tournament), Varane, Konate

Australia

INJURY CONCERNS: Hrustic, Boyle

Denmark

INJURY CONCERNS: Christensen, Damsgaard

Tunisia

GROUP E

Spain

Costa Rica

Germany

INJURY CONCERNS: Fullkrug (illness)

Japan

INJURY CONCERNS: Mitoma (illness), Endo, Morita

GROUP F

Belgium

INJURY/FITNESS CONCERNS: Lukaku, Meunier, Vertonghen

Canada

INJURY CONCERNS: Davies, Eustaquio, Borjan

Morocco

Croatia

GROUP G

Brazil

INJURY CONCERNS: Bruno Guimaraes, Alex Telles

Serbia

INJURY CONCERNS: Mitrovic

Switzerland

Cameroon

GROUP H

Portugal

Ghana

Uruguay

INJURY CONCERNS: Araujo

Korea Republic

World Cup Fantasy 2022 team previews: South Korea

INJURY CONCERNS: Hwang Hee-chan, Son Heung-min

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Koflok
3 years, 16 days ago
Any glaring mistakes?

Rochet - Alaqidi
Dumfries - Tripper - Pavard - Maehle - Sosa
KDB - Foden - Musiala - Bergwijn - De Paul
Messi - Lautaro - Neymar

1. Foden + De Paul + 3.5m GK
2. Perisic + 4m MID + Martinez
3. Olsen + 5.5 MID + Martinez
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1. aflickering
  3 years, 16 days ago
  foden's a bit of a risk, personally i think he's no more than 50% likely to start, but the thing about this format is you can wait 'til the lineups are out and do a quick transfer if necessary.
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  1. Koflok
    3 years, 16 days ago
    Wait we can still do transfer for Gameweek 1 even after the first match?
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  2. gatzi
    3 years, 16 days ago
    You can do a transfer but you can't use that player for the current round. So this info is incorrect.
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    1. aflickering
      3 years, 16 days ago
      as long as neither player involved in the transfer has played yet you can, as per the rules:
      
      When making transfers you have two options:
      
      1. Transfer an unlocked player for another unlocked player
      
      a. This transfer will be processed instantly, and your new player will begin scoring points in the current Matchdays. You will not receive any points this Matchday for the player you transferred out
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      1. gatzi
        3 years, 16 days ago
        I stand corrected! Great work
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        aflickering
        3 years, 16 days ago
        to be fair, the design of this game is unbelievably stupid lol, can't blame anyone for all this confusion.
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2. ILOVEBAPS
  3 years, 16 days ago
  3
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Jafooli
3 years, 16 days ago
Best 7m mid, who is not Bergwijn?

A. Xhaka or Shaqiri
B. Tielemans or Tossard or Carrasco
C. MacAllister
D. Minamino (OOP?)
E. Other, who?
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1. aflickering
  3 years, 16 days ago
  none are very appealing tbh, probably better to downgrade and upgrade elsewhere.
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2. bryant
  3 years, 16 days ago
  ziyech, sarabia(7.5)
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ILOVEBAPS
3 years, 16 days ago
Best combo?

A. Kane, Peresic, Khazri
B. Martinez, Bruno, Arrascaeta
C. Martinez, Peresic, Serabia
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1. aflickering
  3 years, 16 days ago
  A for me. arrascaeta and sarabia aren't nailed, some might even say lautaro isn't nailed either as he didn't start the last friendly.
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Baked baines
3 years, 16 days ago
I've tried looking on the site and can't find it anywhere. What time is deadline for team confirmation? Is it 4?
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1. DavvaMC
  3 years, 16 days ago
  Yes.
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Jafooli
3 years, 16 days ago
Could almost say that Ronnie (legs have gone) is the weak spot of the Portugal team - decent squad
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Paqueta Rice
3 years, 16 days ago
A) Kdb and Musiala
Or
B) Bruno F and Sane +.5
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Jafooli
3 years, 16 days ago
The issue with Giroud will be his hair gel melting in the heat and running down into his eyes….
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Jafooli
3 years, 16 days ago
Other than Bergwijn & Minamino, any other decent OOP options?
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Jafooli
3 years, 16 days ago
With the rules rewarding things like tackles (and other non-FPL aspects), are there any hidden gems/magic beans are cheap prices in defensive midfield or elsewhere?
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1. Westfield Irons ⭐️
  3 years, 15 days ago
  Declan Rice?
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dunas_dog
3 years, 16 days ago
Best option

A KDB Maehle
B Sané Otamendi
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1. Moxon
  3 years, 16 days ago
  A by a mile
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2. aflickering
  3 years, 16 days ago
  A
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Milk, 1 Šuker
3 years, 16 days ago
Gutted Benzema is missing out on the WC. However this should galvanise the French as they will want to bring the trophy home for him. I still think France will fall short at this tournament with a untried midfield pivot as this level.
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1. aflickering
  3 years, 16 days ago
  i have a hard time believing benzema was that popular in the dressing room given his history lol
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Jafooli
3 years, 16 days ago
Best 5.5m mid please?
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1. aflickering
  3 years, 16 days ago
  there aren't really any good choices which is why the likes of de paul and khazri have become template picks.
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Beno2011
3 years, 16 days ago
Who is going to be golden boot winner?
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1. Jebiga
  3 years, 15 days ago
  Mitro
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CoracAld2831
3 years, 16 days ago
I could not decide which premium striker to go.... so I am going to go with all of them.

Costa
Trippier-Dumfries-Maehle-Sosa
Bergwijn-De Paul-Skov Olsen-Khazri
Messi(c)-Mbappe

Rochet-KDB-Cancelo-Neymar

Kane 12th

Thoughts? GTG?
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Josh HOLLEBON
3 years, 15 days ago
Galindez no points why?
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1. Charlie Price
  3 years, 15 days ago
  Glitches galore.
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