The next 12 hours will see the remaining four Round 1 World Cup matches take place, starting with Portugal v DR Congo.
Kick-off at a wet Houston is at 18:00 BST.
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TEAM NEWS
There’s no Ruben Dias ($5.0m) in the Portuguese starting XI this evening, with boss Roberto Martinez revealing in his pre-match presser yesterday that the Manchester City man wasn’t “100% fit”.
Despite the absence of one centre-half, and despite starting Portugal’s final pre-tournament friendly, Gonçalo Inácio ($4.6m) finds himself among the substitutes.
Instead, it’s Renato Veiga ($4.3m) and Tomas Araujo ($4.1m) – owned by just 0.1% of Fantasy managers apiece – who line up at centre-back.
Nuno Mendes ($5.8m), whose fitness limited him to 35 minutes in last week’s win over Nigeria, starts at left-back.
Further forward, Pedro Neto ($6.4m) and Bernardo Silva ($7.8m) get the nod out wide, so it’s bench duty for João Félix ($6.5m), Rafael Leão ($7.8m), Trincao ($5.9m) and Francisco Conceição ($5.7m).
Bruno Fernandes ($8.5m) and Cristiano Ronaldo ($10.0m) start, of course, two of several Portugal players ineligible for Scouting Bonus:
That’s not a problem any of DR Congo’s squad has. Not one of their players is owned by more than 1% of managers.
The Leopards appear to be going defence-first in a 5-3-2 set-up tonight, with Newcastle United’s Yoane Wissa ($6.2m) pairing Cédric Bakambu ($6.5m) up top.
LINE-UPS
Portugal XI: Diogo Costa, Cancelo, Araújo, Veiga, Mendes, Vitinha, Joao Neves, Bernardo Silva, Fernandes, Neto, Ronaldo.Â
Subs: Semedo, Dalot, Rui Silva, Conceição, João Félix, Guedes, Inácio, Trincão, Sá, Ramos, Nunes, Leão, Ruben Neves, Samú Costa, Dias.
Congo DR XI:Â Mpasi, Wan-Bissaka, Mbemba, Tuanzebe, Kapaudi, Masuaku, Moutoussamy, Mukau, Kayembe, Bakambu, Wissa.Â
Subs:Â Banza, Batubinsika, Bongonda, Elia, Epolo, Fayulu, Kakuta, Mayele, Kalulu, Kayembe, Cipenga, Mbuku, Pickel, Sadiki, Tshibola.
