UCL FANTASY: MD4 Preview Pod

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Hayden (0:44)

Hello, everyone.

Dan (0:45)

Welcome back to the UEFA Fantasy podcast brought to you by Fantasy Football Scout. I'm your host, Daniel, and you are joining us tonight for a match day four preview where we're going to run through all of the positions. We are going to look at best picks for wild cards and best picks for just general transfers. And I am joined by Hayden, Noe Lewis. He is taking his son to a firework display. Apparently, that's more important than us.

Scumbag behavior, in my opinion, would you agree?

Hayden (1:15)

Yeah, letting down the listeners. They're waiting for him. He's been away for a review pod as well.

Dan (1:19)

He goes every year. I mean, when was the last time he did a podcast on the 1st of November? That's what I want to know. I might assume.

We obviously have a little joke on the podcast that Lewis doesn't like to leave Wales ever. So how about next time Lewis, you join this podcast and maybe just take your son to a different fair where they've got fireworks. There's plenty around in different countries, okay?

Hayden (1:42)

Yeah, pick a different day, different location.

Dan (1:45)

I think he's father of the year, but he's actually just let everyone down. He's let everyone down. Thankfully, though, he's not missing much because Lewis is bottom of our league. For anyone that missed the review, Lewis is on 263 points. We don't know what his rank is. It's obscurity. We don't care. Big guns on this podcast don't care about where the minnow Lewis is.

I am second. I've dropped with 288 points. Well out of Lewis' reach though.

Hayden, with a 95 point there during match day three, you have shot up 295 So now seven points ahead of me. That is some turnaround. And you're on wild card this week, which is exciting.

Hayden (2:25)

Yeah. Good to be back on top of the league after last week, you had the bragging.

Dan (2:29)

Back on top of the league. What are you talking about? It's the first time you've been on top of the league.

Hayden (2:33)

Match day one, we're all on zero, right?

Dan (2:41)

So what we'll do tonight is we will run through obviously the best picks as we want as we normally do. We will look at your wild card. And also we do have Lewis' wild card. Lewis did actually want to be on the pod. He really did. It was just one of those things for timing.

So be good to see what he's got. And he did leave a few loose notes for me to mention tonight. Let's jump into it. Goalkeepers on a wild card. And if I mean, I don't think, we don't need transfers of goalkeepers. Let's just establish that straight away. This is going to be wild card only for goalkeepers. So Hayden, who are you looking at for your wild card in goalkeepers?

Hayden (3:23)

I think we spoke a lot last week about how tough it is to find a pairing for the rest of the competition.

And also the fact that, well, throughout the tournament today in the first three matchdays, there's been barely any clean sheets. So although I've managed to get three clean sheets in a row from our goalies, I think that all three of us are almost leaning to the same page of the cheap goalies moving forwards. So the two I've currently got in my wild card draft, the Bodo keeper, which I think you have as well, right?

Dan (3:53)

Unfortunately, yes, the joke of the review was that my keeper has conceded eight goals collectively last week.

Hayden (4:02)

So I might be in the same boat this week, but then yeah, and then the other keeper I've got who could concede eight alone this week is Galashie from Ferio.

And in fairness, they play on the same day for week four, but I just think with Galashie having PSG, I don't really mind that too much. I don't think I need a second day, a second keeper when I definitely would have been subbing him out anyway after day one. So the logic I've kind of gone for is for the rest of the league phase. They play on different days. And I just think, as you've touched on before, Bodo at home are kind of solid enough that even if the keeper only comes out with a three pointer, I'm not too disappointed. And then Villa Real have, after PSG anyway, they've got Slavia Praha, Sabah, Fenerbahce and Man United. So I just thought he's also the cheapest goalie in the game at 3.9. You've got those two prime fixtures next. So that's kind of the logic I'm on right now with my goalkeeper pairing for Wildcard.