Fantasy WC – Thursday 1st December

Groups E & F completed today and its farewell to your Belgian, German, Costa Rican and Canadian players. Just groups G & H to complete on Friday and then that’s the end of the group stage. The PLAYERS LEFT column in the table shows how many players each manager has left in the tournament.

Will get a formal update out after the group phase is completed. Commentaries below (working again now!) for Thursday’s games.

CROATIA 0 BELGIUM 0
Gisela Mowles, Steve Smith and Shaun Sparkes get a clean sheet from Joško Gvardiol.
Ian O’Brien, Ste Corbett, Jason Harrison, Melvin Pool, Kevin Robinson and Michael Grierson get a clean sheet from Thibaut Courtois.

CANADA 1 MOROCCO 2
Philip Haigh loses points from Junior Hoilett’s booking, as do Dave Nicholls, Ste Corbett and Michael Grierson from Steven Vitória.
Ben Corrie gets points from Hakim Ziyech’s goal – 12 managers gets points from Achraf Hakimi’s assist.

COSTA RICA 2 GERMANY 4
Ian O’Brien and Chris Mowles gets points from Serge Gnabry’s goal and assist. Ste Corbett and David Owen get 12 points from Kai Havertz’s brace (after coming on as sub). Michael Grierson gets points from Leroy Sané’s assist. Jason Harrison, Christopher Grierson, Philip Haigh, Robin Horsler, Gary Nelson, Mike Sparkes, Madison and Rhys and Paul Sparkes lose points from Manuel Neuer’s own goal.

JAPAN 2 SPAIN 1
Christopher Grierson loses points from Shogo Taniguchi’s booking, as does Lauren Haigh from Maya Yoshida.

POS	MANAGER	TEAM	TEAM NO.	PLAYERS LEFT	TIEBREAK	GD	POINTS
1	Kevin Robinson	Boro Lad	19	14	191	32	197
2	Melvin Pool	Melvinho XI	10	17	167	8	186
3	Gisela Mowles	Hopp Schwiiz	6	17	168	9	176
4	Michael Grierson	Grio FC	24	16	185	26	176
5	Ste Corbett	No Chance FC	7	16	164	5	174
6	Chris Mowles	Out in the Quarters	5	16	174	15	174
7	Steve Smith	Cube of sixty four	16	15	227	68	174
8	Jason Harrison	Brutal Deluxe	8	16	174	15	172
9	Shaun Sparkes	Do You Put The Kekkle On	35	17	214	55	172
10	Ian O’Brien	Boss Nights	4	14	144	15	167
11	James Grierson	Toffee Down Under	15	17	185	26	165
12	Martin Grierson	The Jester’s Tear	14	17	161	2	164
13	Albert Au	WeDontTakeLs	23	16	188	29	164
14	Lauren Haigh	Rodri, you plonker	29	15	165	6	158
15	Josh Wignall	Haven’t Jota clue	25	17	168	9	157
16	Neil Metcalf	Jubilee Invincibles	26	16	210	51	155
17	Ross Hunt	Last Minute 11	33	15	154	5	154
18	Emma Bisset	GodsHand	1	14	159	0	149
19	Tracey Corrie	Ta-ra Qatar	27	14	160	1	149
20	Allan Jones	AllStars	2	15	190	31	149
21	Christopher Grierson	Qatar Payoff	12	16	213	54	149
22	Dave Nicholls	CuddaWuddaShudda	3	15	170	11	148
23	Mike Sparkes	Bluemoon	31	15	172	13	148
24	Gary Nelson	MMDG	21	15	278	119	148
25	Paul Maiden	Pride of Europe	9	15	185	26	143
26	Philip Haigh	Sonly a Game	18	14	152	7	142
27	Madison and Rhys	Mad dogs	32	16	162	3	141
28	Ewan White	The Briggs Ballers	11	15	223	64	140
29	Nick & Emma	Nick & Emma	28	16	180	21	135
30	David Owen	Dasus United	22	15	173	14	132
31	Ben Donafee	Karim Bensteama	30	17	166	7	127
32	Robin Horsler	No Transfer Demons	20	14	123	36	124
33	Ben Corrie	Jack Warner’s brown envelope	17	13	151	8	121
34	Paul Sparkes	Best team in all the land and world	34	14	135	24	117
35	Colin Eunson	UE’s go aussie	13	16	165	6	109