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Had a nights sleep but yea 9 seems appropriate. The only thing not making it a 10 is because I know the media will be milking this tournament for all the Messi articles they can churn. As much as I love Messi, I know it'll get annoying quick. Also, Qatari's sportwashing has been a major success in that regard. If Qatar managed to play slightly better, than it could probably be a 10 too.

Top 5. Can't argue with that. Matchday 3 and QFs ruined my score but thats Fantasy Football for you.

Xhaka-Torreira didn't work for Arsenal and it shouldn't work here. Scott wins it for me.

Not saying Haguey's team is bad, but I'm surprised he managed to get into the semis. My votes for Cartman.

I'm guessing you're AnneFranksDrumKit? Seems like youre doing really well

Yassine Bounou and Dominik Livakovic are my PotT candidates

If the leaks were true however, maybe Southgate should've probably bought Tomori in hindsight...

Makes no sense if Ben White was 'struggling to mix with team-mates' like hes a new player and knows no one. He was in the Euro squad AND he's from Arsenal, so at least has his Arsenal teammates like Saka and Ramsdale in there. Doubt the FA would use language such as 'we are with the player' for their post when he flew back to England if he had a bust-up with Southgate. The media should just lay off Benny Blanco.

Golden Boy's team is slightly better for me. Courtesy vote for Gunman as well but he'd probably get my vote anyways even if it wasn't against my team.

I've swallowed my words. Henderson was amazing last night. He'll probably need to play against France now to help press the Griezmann-Rabiot-Mbappe triangle on their left.

All the teams rotating for the third matchday ruined my score so bad

Yea ive lucked out of the groups and now I'm up against Gunman who drafted well

Ooh I like this question and I don't see anyone try to answer this rhetorical answer so I'll give it a go. First up, since England's 26 man squad is lacking a left-back, so I'd have USA's Antonee Robinson in for Conor Coady. 1/26 Then, England's midfield options aren't the best because they're either out of form, or not fully fit. I'd take all of McKennie, Adams, and Musah (the latter was an England youth player) over Phillips, Gallagher, and Henderson. 4/26 Also, while I do rate Callum Wilson, Iran's Mehdi Taremi has been very prolific for Porto, and has scored a few in the Champions League. They're both the same age too, so that won't be an issue. So I'd have Taremi over Wilson on this one. 5/26 In terms of squad depth and versatility, I'd want Ben Davies in my squad. Someone who could play LB, LCB, and LWB. He'll probably be in my squad for Ben White. While very good and very inform, he plays in a position where England have other better options for (RB, RCB). 6/26 Probably would've tried to squeeze in Aaron Ramsey & Gareth Bale but they're way passed it and wouldn't have been picked even if they were English. Weah, Pulisic, and Reyna might have a shout, but England's got one of the best forward options in the tournament. So those are my answers. At the very least 6 players from the 3 teams could make the England squad, but there is possibility for that number to be bigger. I don't know what the point of that was, but it was fun to work out anyways.

If I was to go through, and I get to have replacements... are the players eligible of from teams that were eliminated in their group? or all teams are up for grabs?

Japan is a very system-over-players team. They got through the groups without staring Tomiyasu, Mitoma, Minamino, and Asano (where all of them has established their European careers to varying levels). Kubo has been in-and-out of the XI, and Furuhashi & Hatate didn't even make the squad. Granted, they rode a lot on luck for their comebacks against Spain & Germany, but they are effective. Even in the Costa Rica match, I thought they were comfortably the better team. Looking at the draw, anything above QFs will be an overachievement.