Here’s Clay and Antonello’s World Cup Fantasy Teams for Rd 3. They are both Wildcarding and ranked 157k and 147k Overall Rank respectively
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Clay Van Doren
102 points Rd2, Total Points 194. Overall Rank 157k
Key elements to my approach: Boosters
Play wildcard Round 3 expecting material rotation for top clubs who have secured exit from the Group Stage (ala France and Germany)
Means I am only targeting my selection for teams Gameweek 3 selection…
…as get wildcard for start of Knockout Phases (Gameweek 4)
Plan to play Max Captain in Final or Semi-final round when less chance to swap between players during the Round (as only 1-2 games)
Played 12th Man in Round 2
GW2 results: Solid 102 points and Overall Rank of 157K
Rotation of captainers landed on a success with Vini JR
12th Man Olise did Ok at 9 points (Haaland at 17 or Messi at 19 would have been better).
GW3 Team: Playing Wildcard…focused on Teams Playing for something vs. weak teams
Assumption is stars for teams who have qualified likely first will be rested in GW3 (Messi, Mbappe, Haaland)
My team will be comprised of players from top teams still to qualify / qualify top…
- Brazil and Spain to jump to mind
…And players yet to qualify against weak teams (targeting Scout Bonus sub 5%)
- Ivory Coast vs. Curacao
- Morocco vs. Haiti
- High-scoring Netherlands vs. struggling Tunisia
- England vs. Panama
- Belgium vs. New Zealand
- Argentina vs. Jordan
- Egypt vs. Iran (a stronger team vs others)
Current plan is:
- Three Ivory Coast vs. Curacao (top priority); Two Defenders plus Attacker
- Three Netherlands vs. Tunisia: Two Defenders plus Attacker
- Two Morocco vs. Haiti: Defender and Attacker
- Vini Jr vs. Scotland (need a win)
- Alvarez vs. Jordan (2nd teamer and likely to play)
- Saka vs. Panama (needs minutes)
- Meunier and DeBruyne vs. New Zealand
- 3.6M Egypt goalie (Shobeir) and Salah vs. Iran
Alternate interests
- Both Belgium players could go
- Salah could become Yamal (Uruguay)
- Saka could become Rogers, Gordon, or other England midfielder
- Might bring in another Morocco defender for 2nd Netherlands defender
Captain Rotation Plan (stopping once get a score of 12+):
- Vini Jr (24 June) to Diomande (25 June) to Brobbey (26 June) to Mo Salah (27 June) to Alvarez (28 June)
Round 3: Wildcard
Good luck everyone
Clay will put his captain changes and substitutions in the comments below as they happen. He will not notify on Slack so you will have to check daily before the deadline
Antonello’s Team
101 points Rd2, Total Points 195. Overall Rank 147k
The score could have been higher;
I transferred Xhaka out for Raphinha (who not only came close to scoring two goals but then had to leave the game due to injury), while the Swiss player scored on a penalty kick and 10 points…
I subbed out Nuno Mendes because of Portugal’s defensive absences, which were compromising their stability, and he scored…
Oyarzabal could have scored a lot more points but was subbed out at the end of the first half…
Round 3 – Wildcard activated
In this wild card, I decided to go all in on the top teams that still have something to play for
Here’s the Wildcard team
Good luck everyone!
