Here’s our Euro fantasy football article where we look at the likely winners of the round of 16. This will help with all the formats having limited transfers. The only exception being the McDonalds format if you still have a wildcard
Euro fantasy football – limited transfers and who could win in the round of 16
A quick reminder on transfer limits
McDonalds
Number of free transfers
After unlimited transfers:
Round of 16: unlimited
Quarter-finals: 4
Semi-finals: 6
Final: 6
The sun dream team
During phase four (knockouts) you may make up to eleven transfers to your team(s).
Telegraph
After unlimited transfers. Another 20 transfers will then be made available for you to use during the knockout stage of the tournament.
Why you need to be aware of the potential winners of the round of 16
If you have a wildcard left for the McDonalds transfers then you have a little more latitude but otherwise you need to think carefully about using a transfer for a player that maybe knocked out of the tournament given that transfers are limited. The McDonalds format at least has a sub option to give a bit more flexibility
Remember there are 16 games to go.
The fixtures
Here again is the round of 16 fixtures from the BBC website
Ranking the likely winners
This is the tournament of the underdog so it’s difficult to predict the winners but here’s my view. I’m sure you’ll have your own but at least this will get you thinking
The pretty certain winners
Germany, France, Wales
The likely winners
Belgium, England
The difficult to call
Switzerland v Poland
Croatia v Portugal
Italy v Spain
The pretty certain losers
Solvakia, ROI, Northern Ireland
The likely losers
Hungary, Iceland