Euro 2021 Fantasy | Best Picks | Tips and Differentials

 "EURO 2021- Fantasy Tips"

With the Euros 2021 coming up now, we have come up with an article on tips for UEFA's new venture - fantasy football for the fans to 'play along'.

Basically every person playing the game gets a budget of €100 million which they must use to pick 15 players for their fantasy team where the cost of each player varies. Top stars like Ronaldo, Mbappe, Kane, etc are high end players costing €10-12 million while less famous players have a smaller value say €4-5 million.

To begin with the most basic tip we can offer is to always go for buying attacking players in every position as no points are earned for great passing, intercepting, etc.The only defensive points earned are from defenders for clean sheets.

So in this article we will show 7 top picks every manager must have, 7 differential picks you could take for your team and some players you should not even look at. 

Top Picks:

Sr.N	Name	Nation	Position	Price
1)	Harry Kane	England	FWD	€11.5 m
2)	Bruno Fernandes	Portugal	MID	€10.5 m
3)	Mathijas De Light	Netherlands	DEF	€5.5 m
4)	Romelu Lukaku	Belgium	FWD	€11 m
5)	Mason Mount	England	MID	€7 m
6)	Gianluigi Donnuruma	Italy	GK	€5.5 m
7)	Kevin de Bruyne	Belgium	MID	€10.5 m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To explain our selection,all these players are guaranteed starters for their nations which automatically earns you 2 points further all of them (leaving GK) are goalscorers and play makers who will haul in almost every game.Kane and Lukaku have been scoring day in day out for club and country while Mount, De Bruyne and Fernandes are always scoring and assisting likewise for their clubs and are expected to do the same for country. Our defensive choices; de Light and Donnuruma are likely to get clean sheet points as they have relatively easy fixtures. Also de Light can score a few from set-pieces and Donnuruma is always geting you the points for the saves he makes

All in all these players totally justify their price and although one cant buy them all you could get at least 4-5 of them.

 

Differentials:

Sr.No	Name	Nation	Position	Price
1)	Burak Yilmaz	Turkey	FWD	€8 m
2)	Gareth  Bale	Wales	MID	€9.5 m
3)	Youri Tielmans	Belgium	MID	€6.5 m
4)	Oleksandr Zinchenko	Ukraine	DEF	€5.5 m
5)	Cesar Azpilicueta	Spain	DEF	€5 m
6)	Vladimir Coufal	Czech Rep.	DEF	€5 m
7)	Timothy Castagne	Belgium	DEF	€5.5 m

A differential player is a player that has very less ownership or has medium amount of ownership but is actually worth a lot more.

In this case the differential MID's selected are Bale and Tielmans. Both are most likely to start for their nations and could prove to be the super effective players as both are coming off really great seasons.

Burak Yilmaz is my number 1 differential, he just led Lille to the Ligue 1 for the 1st time in years defeating the likes of PSG. He was also possibly the most effective player for Lille and with another underdog team like Turkey we are sure he will haul more than frequently.

The defenders; Zinchenko, Azpilicueta, Coufal and Castagne are all fullbacks who are good offensively too.They have decent fixtures and will deliver points.

Special Mentions are Memphis Depay(MID),Alioski(DEF) and Ryan Fraser(MID)

 Atrocious Picks :

Sr.No	Name	Nation	Position	Price
1)	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	FWD	€12m
2)	Kylian Mbappe	France	FWD	€12m
3)	Kaspar Schmeichel	Denmark	GK	€5m
4)	Benjemin Pavard	France	DEF	€6m
5)	N’golo Kante	France	MID	€5.5m
6)	Ilkay Gundogan	Germany	MID	€7.5m
7)	Joao Felix	Portugal	MID	€8.5m

Now before you start getting cross with us just hear us out.The reason for having someone like Ronaldo,Mbappe or Felix is that they are in the group of death and cost about €12 million(CR7 and Mbappe) and €8.5million which is a complete waste of money. In our opinion the 3 of them will score a goal or maximum 2 in the group stages which is not worth €12 million. Felix as much as he is hyped might not even get to start every game, hence we would suggest going for Lukaku or Kane for that much money. 

Kante.....as much as we all love him, he is not going to score and lets face it the same goes for Pavard a defender who doesn't get as forward as others. We would suggest using a Castagne or Kimmich type of player in their places. Coming to Gundogan we doubt he will get to start consistently as Germany have Goretzka, Kimmich, Havertz and Mueller as mids.

In a nutshell try not to buy more than 1-2 Germans, Portuguese or French players and surely dont go for the super expensive ones.Also, do not hoard your team with English defenders you never know when Southgate will activate his roulette system. Only buy these players further down the tournament if they are just unstoppable.

Conclusion:

Just play smart and play wise don't buy players just because you adore or love them. Players who will make a difference to your team are the ones you must get, and remember to not just fill up one position with expensive players; distribute it.

Here's a sneak peak at our Sportonomics team to start the fantasy game.

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