2016 TFFE Champions League game

Post by **wizardoffire** » 16 Feb 2016, 20:43

will probably throw a couple more teams in... one tomorrow and then maybe 1/2 next week

shame the super 32s cost this time round

Post by **Hammertime** » 16 Feb 2016, 20:49

Hard to follow on the web

TFF Live say my players aren't playing even though I can see them on the telly? they have just given an assist to Remy even though he's not on the field and Shatov has got 6 despite not scoring and only getting booked.
and the BBC have a load of names I don't recognise.

Will add a few teams to the forum league as I've only just seen that

Post by **wizardoffire** » 16 Feb 2016, 20:56

only got the zenit game over here in canada, the psg game on a totally different package

and the zenit game has been a snooze fest

Post by **Roath Raver** » 16 Feb 2016, 23:16

For those that haven't managed to watch the games.

PSG 2 Chelsea 1
Ibrahimovic
Cavani (Di Maria, Ibrahimovic)

Benfica 1 Zenit 0
Jonas (Gaitan)
Red Card for Criscito

Entry numbers this year are down by around 16000 from this time last year.

Post by **SamD** » 17 Feb 2016, 13:13

The following will miss CL round of 16 second leg tie after receiving a third yellow (or red) card in Tuesday's games:

Benfica: Jardel, André Almeida
Zenit: Criscito, Javi Garcia

PSG: none
Chelsea: none

These players will be banned from second leg if they see yellow in remaining six first leg games:

Gent: Asare, Depoitre, Foket, Saief
Wolfsburg: Caligiuri

Roma: De Rossi, Nainggolan
Real Madrid: Casimiro

Arsenal: Campbell, Giroud, Özil
Barcelona: Piqué

Juventus: Sturaro
Bayern: Boateng

PSV Eindhoven v Atlético
PSV: Guardado, Bruma
Atlético: Oliver Torres

Dynamo Kyiv v Manchester City
Dynamo Kyiv: Buyalskiy, Danilo Silva, Korzun, Rybalka
Manchester City: none

Five players were suspended for the round of 16 first legs:

Naldo (Wolfsburg)
Nemanja Matić (Chelsea)
Arda Turan (Barcelona)
Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven)
Antunes (Dynamo Kyiv)

TFFE Overall leaders of 3,902 after first two of 29 KO matches:

1 Robert Jones, everyone a winner, 57
2 Mark Crompton, Liam's Euro Stars, 55
2 Tim Clear, Real Pot Luck, 55
4 Joe O'Malley, O'Malley FC, 54
5 Sam David, It Takes Two, 53
5 Dennis Waterman, Real Ashburton, 53
5 Paul Gallagher, Chumps4, 53

Top five of 81 super leagues:

1 Mr Chairman, Twitter League, 50.0
1 Mr Thomas, FISO Forum, 50.0 *
3 Mr Chairman, Facebook League, 47.8
4 Mr Jannoun, Block Central, 43.2
5 Mr David, Two-Footed Challenge, 42.2 **

* Fiso Forum first five of 64:

1 Andrew Stevens, Ben and Psv 52; 8th overall
2 Simon Harris, Benfica, 51
3 Sam David, Channel Hoppers, 50
4 Mark Bennett, Euro Job, 49
5 Bill Wilkins, Peoples Front of Man, 48

** Two-Footed Challenge leaders of 32:

1 Sam David, It Takes Two, 53; 5th overall
2 Ashley Bloodworth, Money for the 3, 44
3 Kevin Wright, kw2, 41
4 Desmond Conway, Hes not the Messi-ah, 37
5 Andrew Stevens, Cant handle the Huth, 36
5 Sam David, Just Champion, 36
5 Raymond Walker, Tinman, 36

Early days.

Post by **Maldini** » 17 Feb 2016, 13:45

Some good info there, Sam. Cheers.

Last time I checked, Naldo was still one of the most picked defenders.

Post by **redmen82** » 17 Feb 2016, 14:58

what will be a good score after both legs? is 100 about right?

and great info above, thanks

Post by **robot** » 17 Feb 2016, 16:51

redmen82 wrote:what will be a good score after both legs? is 100 about right?

and great info above, thanks

Good if not annoying info sam

I am 1 of the Naldo owners.

and he is the highest picked defender.

From last years thread I was in 47th on 182 after round of 16 leader was on 205.

Considerably less entrants this year even accounting for those entering tonight!

Post by **Maldini** » 17 Feb 2016, 16:55

There'll still be a fair few entering tonight and even next week but they'll still be way down on entries.

Suspect it'll be the last year of this as numbers reduce year on year.

Why they don't run it from the group stage, God only knows. Would be a far superior game imo.

Post by **SamD** » 17 Feb 2016, 17:28

In answer, a useful TFF score after Wed games will obviously depend on number of clean sheets and goals.

Last season featured three clean sheets and six goals across first four matches.

Tues

Paris St Germain 1-1 Chelsea
Shakhtar Donetsk 0-0 Bayern Munich

Overall top three of 20,400 TFFE teams:
1 Neil Murray, No Chance In SPFL, 47 points
2 Jim Winn, Euro spanners, 46
2 Craig Brady, i-dream, 46

Wed

FC Basel 1-1 FC Porto
Schalke 0-2 Real Madrid

Overall leaders of 20,959 TFFE teams:
1 Craig Brady, i-dream, 99 points
2 Kevin Duff, Talcy in Europe, 90
3 Christopher Henderson, 1st nite excitement, 89
3 Murray Hill, Horse, 89

cf 2016 to date:
Tues

Benfica 1-0 Zenit
PSG 2-1 Chelsea

Overall top three of 3,902:
1 Robert Jones, everyone a winner, 57
2 Mark Crompton, Liam's Euro Stars, 55
2 Tim Clear, Real Pot Luck, 55

Wed fixtures

Gent v Wolfsburg
Roma v Real Madrid

Post by **Roath Raver** » 17 Feb 2016, 21:00

Phew. Changed my Schurlles to Draxlers at the last minute yesterday.

Draxler (Vierinha)
Draxler

Ronaldo (Marcelo, Kroos?)

Post by **wizardoffire** » 17 Feb 2016, 21:03

Roath Raver wrote:Phew. Changed my Schurlles to Draxlers at the last minute yesterday.

Draxler (Vierinha)
Draxler

Ronaldo (Marcelo, Kroos?)

you go off some people

lol jk inspired move on your part

Post by **Roath Raver** » 17 Feb 2016, 21:08

wizardoffire wrote:
Roath Raver wrote:Phew. Changed my Schurlles to Draxlers at the last minute yesterday.

Draxler (Vierinha)
Draxler

Ronaldo (Marcelo, Kroos?)
you go off some people lol jk inspired move on your part

Have to enjoy the few successes when they come about ey!

Post by **SamD** » 18 Feb 2016, 12:54

Wed first legs:

KAA Gent 2-3 VfL Wolfsburg
AS Roma 0-2 Real Madrid

No new suspensions (wrt Wed 17 Feb 13:13 post).

TFFE top fives after four of 29 KO matches

Overall leaders of 4,261

1 Terry Holland, BEN, 121
2 John Mcaree, Benfica Mac, 110
3 Steven Thornton, Dirty Tackle, 108
4 Philip Dines, LilyBen, 103
5 Ed Jones, JB Benfica, 101

Super leagues (of 81)

1 Mr Thomas, FISO Forum, 86.6 *
2 Mr Chairman, Facebook League, 81.6
3 Mr Jannoun, Block Central, 81.2
4 Mr Chairman, Twitter League, 78.6
5 Mr David, Two-Footed Challenge, 76.4 **

* Fiso Forum (71 teams)

1 Bill Wilkins, Peoples Front of Man, 97; 8th overall
2 Bill Wilkins, Manc Peoples Front, 89
3 Mark Bennett, Euro Job, 87
4 James Anderson-Gordon, Eves Lions, 84
5 Kevin Wright, kw3, 81

** Two-Footed Challenge (16 managers; 32 teams)

1 Raymond Walker, Tinman, 93; 13th
2 Paul Stringer, Sick Boy, 76
2 Kevin Wright, kw4, 76
4 Ashley Bloodworth, Madrid, 69
5 Andrew Stevens, Cant handle the Huth, 68

Post by **Jackpot** » 18 Feb 2016, 19:10

Hadn't realised a FISO league had been set up for this game, so I guess I might as well enter some of my teams seen as we have until 04 April to enter Private Leagues.

I've currently got a couple of teams in the top 20 after the first four matches

Have to see if I can stay up there!

Post by **SamD** » 23 Feb 2016, 18:44

Arsenal: Čech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Özil, Alexis, Giroud.

Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, Alba, Busquets, Rakitic, Iniesta, Neymar, Suárez, Messi

Juventus: Buffon, Barzagli, Bonucci, Lichtsteiner, Evra, Khedira, Marchisio, Pogba, Cuadrado, Mandžukić, Dybala

Bayern Munich: Neuer, Bernat, Lahm, Alaba, Thiago Alcántara, Douglas Costa, Vidal, Kimmich, Lewandowski, Robben, Muller

Post by **Roath Raver** » 23 Feb 2016, 22:39

16th with 6 left, managed to keep Ronaldo and Benzema in the team so I am hoping those above have less transfers/and or don't have Ronaldo and Benzema, expecting a battering at the Bernabeu.

Post by **Auspicious** » 27 Feb 2016, 23:53

Currently find myself joint 1st

Post by **Roath Raver** » 28 Feb 2016, 00:01

Auspicious wrote:Currently find myself joint 1st

Give us some hope! All out of transfers?

Post by **Auspicious** » 28 Feb 2016, 00:05

Into single digits

Post by **Jackpot** » 28 Feb 2016, 21:16

Congrats Auspicious, great effort so far!! I've got three teams in the top 25 which are all nicely set up for the next round of matches, so I'll be trying to close the gap to you in 1st

Post by **SamD** » 07 Mar 2016, 16:57

Week Two Standings, after eight of 27 fixtures

Overall Top 20 of 4,664

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                                                Points
01 Steven Thornton    Dirty Tackle                 141
01 Ian Buckley        Barca                        141
03 Dave Green         APEP                         133
03 Terry Holland      BEN                          133
05 Dave Green         AMARU                        131
06 Neil Rowicki       Benfica                      129
07 Dominic Harkin     Doms Dominators              128
07 Mark Bennett       Euro Job                     128
07 Mark Currie        Barracelona                  128
10 Christopher HendersReally Nice                  127
11 Paul Gallagher     STARS5                       125
12 Jason Eckley       BayECK Munich                124
12 Thomas Lovell      Europe 10                    124
12 John Mcaree        BARCA Bay Mac                124
15 Thomas Lovell      Europe 8                     123
15 Aaron Jannoun      Real Madrid Cuatro           123
17 Ray Bacon          RCL 1                        121
17 Luke Jarvis        lukerpool                    121
17 Dave Travis        Trav'super ladz              121
17 Mark Chadwick      Path To Glory                121

League of Leagues

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                                                   Avg
01 Mr Thomas          FISO Forum                 121.8  *
02 Mr Chairman        Twitter League             119.2
02 Mr Green           The Dragons                119.2
04 Mr Bowring         Neville Mind               116.2
05 Mr Eckley          Gsm primo champions        115.6
06 Mr Chairman        Facebook League            111.4
07 Mr Jannoun         Block Central              109.2
08 Mr Bacon           Rays A Laugh               107.0
09 Mr Jerrard         Rons Arsenal Academy       106.4
10 Mr Mcaree          MACS                       105.4
11 Mr Wilson          Los Campeones Di Car       102.0
12 Mr Varney          Ronaldo or Messi           100.8
12 Mr Brooks          We all hate Facebook       100.8
14 Mr David           Two-Footed Challenge       100.6  **
14 Mr Fleming         Euro Dobbers Utd           100.6

* Fiso Forum SL

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                                                       Overall
                      Top 10 of 85              Points    Rank
-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -   -  -  -  -  -  -  -
01 Mark Bennett       Euro Job                     128      07
02 Thomas Lovell      Europe 10                    124      12
03 Thomas Lovell      Europe 8                     123      15
04 Thomas Lovell      Europe 1                     118      25
05 Andrew Stevens     Last Tango In Paris          116      35
06 Kevin Wright       Kw3                          113      47
07 Paul Stringer      Begbie                       110      64
08 Andrew Stevens     Athleticona                  109      71
09 Keith Pritchard    Stitchy                      108      82
10 Paul Stringer      Sick Boy                     106     104

** Two-Footed Challenge (Prize SL)
Just three century-makers to date:
Maldini, Harpo10 and redmen82 (latter led with 98 after first week).
No surprise who's playing a waiting game…

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                                                     Points            Overall
                                                  Wk-1    Wk-2   Total    Rank
-  -  -  -  -  -  -   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  
01 Paul Stringer      Sick Boy                      86      20     106     104
02 Dominic Harkin     Galo                          50      50     100     212
02 Raymond Walker     Tinman                        98       2     100     212
04 Chris Whale        Get In There                  87      12      99     233
05 Albert Vaughan     Berties Bassetts              78      20      98     267
06 Ashley Bloodworth  Madrid                        76      20      96     316
07 Andrew Stevens     Who Ate Depays                58      36      94     383
07 Kevin Wright       Kw4                           90       4      94     383
07 Ashley Bloodworth  Money For The 3               75      19      94     383
10 Paul Stringer      Renton                        81      12      93     417

11 Dominic Harkin     Hopeless 11                   67      24      91     516
12 Sam David          It Takes Two                  82       8      90     570
13 Raymond Walker     Wizard Of Oz                  60      28      88     672
14 Albert Vaughan     Creosotes Crushers            76      10      86     789
15 Sam David          Just Champion                 75      10      85     854
16 Mike Rice          Workies Euroflot              56      28      84     907
17 Chris Whale        Gaitan There                  79       2      81   1,120
18 Desmond Conway     Hes Not The Messi-Ah          76       4      80   1,178
19 David Rhodes       EuroOwl1                      69      10      79   1,255
19 David Rhodes       EuroOwl2                      62      17      79   1,255

21 TerryV Bullen      Clowns                        48      30      78   1,325
22 Mike Rice          Workies Eurobot               54      23      77   1,396
22 Desmond Conway     HesAveryNaughtieBoy           75       2      77   1,396
22 TerryV Bullen      Jokers                        73       4      77   1,396
25 Kevin Wright       Kw2                           71       4      75   1,522
26 Andrew Stevens     Cant Handle The Huth          74       0      74   1,595
27 Bill Wilkins       Super Furry Pants             72       0      72   1,735
28 Lee Bowyer         Outer Milan                   63       4      67   2,101
28 Lee Bowyer         Unreal Madrid                 53      14      67   2,101
30 Bill Wilkins       CK Maxx                       56       0      56   2,823
31 Phil Thomas        Kickers 2                     51       0      51   3,138
32 Phil Thomas        Kickers 3                     36       0      36   4,041

                      Whole league average          69      13      82
                      League of SLs rank                            14
                      Overall leader of 4,664 teams                141

Second Leg Fixtures; 19:45 GMT unless stated
Tue 8 March
Real Madrid v Roma (agg 2-0)
Wolfsburg v Gent (agg 3-2)

Wed 9 March
Zenit Petersburg v Benfica (agg 0-1); 17:00
Chelsea v Paris St G (agg 1-2)

Tue 15 March
Atl Madrid v Eindhoven (agg 0-0)
Man City v Dynamo Kiev (agg 3-1)

Wed 16 March
Barcelona v Arsenal (agg 2-0)
Bayern Munich v Juventus (agg 2-2)

Post by **jobmeister** » 08 Mar 2016, 16:37

Great work - Sam D. Couple of notable injuries tonight Benzema and Naldo. Shame as I held onto Naldo and he is highly owned.

Post by **wizardoffire** » 08 Mar 2016, 18:01

jobmeister wrote:Great work - Sam D. Couple of notable injuries tonight Benzema and Naldo. Shame as I held onto Naldo and he is highly owned.

being cheap though naldo seems a hold to me plus I expect wolfsburg to advance tonight and just rotate the midfielders and forwards

Post by **robot** » 08 Mar 2016, 18:21

wizardoffire wrote:
jobmeister wrote:Great work - Sam D. Couple of notable injuries tonight Benzema and Naldo. Shame as I held onto Naldo and he is highly owned.
being cheap though naldo seems a hold to me plus I expect wolfsburg to advance tonight and just rotate the midfielders and forwards

You can reset the team for the quarter's though so there is no point in "holding" the rest of this round is just a case of using transfers up after players have played/injured, the only gain in leaving players in is to leave space budget wise for this stage.

Post by **SamD** » 08 Mar 2016, 19:03

No need to keep quoting 'Great work', chaps, flattering as it is...

On stats, both tonight's games may be high-scoring; so no clean sheet? Starters:

REAL MADRID
Navas; Pepe, Ramos, Danilo, Marcelo;
Casemiro, Modric, James, Kroos, Ronaldo, Bale

Subs: Casilla, Varane, Carvajal, Kovacic, Lucas Vazquez, Jese, Isco

ROMA
Szczesny; Florenzi, Manolas, Zukanovic, Digne;
Pjanic, Keita, Salah, Perotti, El Shaarawy, Dzeko

Subs: De Sanctis, Maicon, Torosidis, Castan, Vainqueur, Iago Falque, Totti

WOLFSBURG
Casteels; Trasch, Knoche, Dante, Rodriguez;
Gustavo, Guilavogui; Schurrle, Arnold, Draxler; Kruse

Subs: Grun, Schafer, Ascues, Caligiuri, Vieirinha, Bruno Henrique, Putaro

GENT
Sels; Rafinha, Asare, Nielsen, Gershon;
Matton, Neto, Kums, Dejaegere, Simon, Milicevic

Subs: Thoelen, Saief, Deaux, Wikheim, Foket, Coulibaly, Depoitre

Post by **jobmeister** » 08 Mar 2016, 19:15

robot wrote:
wizardoffire wrote:
jobmeister wrote:Great work - Sam D. Couple of notable injuries tonight Benzema and Naldo. Shame as I held onto Naldo and he is highly owned.
being cheap though naldo seems a hold to me plus I expect wolfsburg to advance tonight and just rotate the midfielders and forwards
You can reset the team for the quarter's though so there is no point in "holding" the rest of this round is just a case of using transfers up after players have played/injured, the only gain in leaving players in is to leave space budget wise for this stage.

Jackpot are you sure you can reset your team ??? Please advise ,cheers

Post by **Ashers** » 08 Mar 2016, 19:25

jobmeister wrote: Jackpot are you sure you can reset your team ??? Please advise ,cheers

TRANSFERS
You can change your line up as much as you like up until the first kick-off at 7.45pm on Tuesday, February 16, 2016.

After that, you can make up to 12 player changes during the Round of 16, a further 11 player changes at the beginning of the Quarter Finals stage and 24 player changes until the Champions League Final.

Transfers must be made before the scheduled kick-off time of any given match in order for your new players to score points from that match.

In Summary:

• Transfer amnesty up to 7:45pm on Feb 16.

• Round 16 transfer cap of 12 between 20.00 on Feb 16 and 19.45 on March 16.

• 11 transfers available between 00:00 on March 17 and 19.45 on April 5.

• Transfer cap of 24 between 20:00 on April 5 and 19.45 on May 28 (the Final).

Note: unused transfers cannot be carried over into the next transfer window.

Post by **jobmeister** » 08 Mar 2016, 19:29

Thanks for that ashers .so teams cannot be reset.

Post by **Jackpot** » 08 Mar 2016, 19:35

Teams can't technically be "reset", but you are able to change all 11 of your players in between the end of the round of 16 and the start of the quarter finals.

As we only get 11 transfers and not unlimited transfers, it will be best to wait until an hour before the first quarter finals when we will at least have some team news available.

FISO