Streamer Showdown - S2

 
 

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, IT IS BACK, the Football Manager Streamer Showdown Season Two is coming to your screens this weekend with a twist.

If you missed Season One you can read the round up here or watch the highlights video here.

This weekend sees the return of Bundesliga football so we thought we’d challenge the original 8 creators to draft their five hundred million pound teams using a minimum of 15 Bundesliga players with only 5 Wildcard picks from the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A & Ligue 1 to bolster their teams.

So let’s have a look at how it played out and what we expect to see this weekend:

SecondYellowCard - SYC’s pulled out his slippers again in this draft, Hradecky’s back between the posts & Mane’s his big money man again and this time he’s linked up with former Liverpool teammate Phil Coutinho. SYC was the streamer favourite in Season One but he didn’t make it past the first knockout round.

 
 

HerbTheNerd - Herb hit the draft big and hard, his first four picks were Haaland, Alaba, Gnabry & Milinkovic-Savic! Herb’s Saturday performance in Season One showed that there’s some potential here but he’s really going to have to nail those tactics when Sunday comes.

 
 

UnarmingPine - Harry Kane & Timo Werner upfront? Yes please! We’re looking forward to seeing the Pine ‘n’ Munich tactic in action with plenty of chances being created for his excellent front pairing. We like his defence but can Goretzka & Alberto hold the middle of the park?

 
 

Curty - The Champ comes in to Season Two licking his wounds and he’s certainly put in the planning to regain his title. His first eleven is the highest value in the tournament which means he has a great chance on the Saturday but with a weakened squad he’ll have to hope there’s no injuries on the Sunday. We’re expecting to see Trent on set-pieces aiming for Cristiano Ronaldo’s head… can that be stopped?

 
 

Lollujo - The reigning champions from Season One went big in round one securing Virgil van Dijk who was instrumental for him in Season One, he’s also picked up Ben Chilwell who was the highest assist maker from the first season. We’re looking forward to seeing what the pace of Depay, Aubameyang and Coman can do to the opposition and whether the big money signing of Manuel Neuer will pay off. You can’t discount the champ as a contender but his squad isn’t as strong as Season One and it might prove a little more difficult this time around. We love to be proved wrong!

 
 

DoctorBenjy - He was armed with a spreadsheet and chose Lucas Hernandez in the first round… I know, we asked him the same thing and it turns out he was a player that he really wanted and didn’t want to risk missing out on, let’s hope he doesn’t do a Zouma… Ben has picked a solid eleven and with his assistant WorkTheSpace plotting in the background he’s our favourite for the win in Season Two.

 
 

FoxInTheBox - Foxy managed to navigate the draft brilliantly, Lewandowski, Pogba, Oblak, Bailey and Sancho were inspired picks and he’s certainly got a score to settle when it comes to Saturday football. He’s been talking up playing a Brexit 4-4-2 but we all know Foxy, he’ll have 4,423 versions of every system locked and loaded, let’s just hope the tinker man doesn’t over complicate things.

 
 

Zealand - Nothing to see here other than a front three of Neymar, Immobile & the goat Lionel Messi. WOW he went big in the early rounds to secure some big players. Zealand has one of the most recognisable squads on show and we’ve got him down as one of the favourites for the tournament as he has a score to settle with DoctorBenjy.

 
 

The Football Manager Streamer Showdown will be broadcast live from all 8 streamers channels at 7pm on Saturday & Sunday with a new Streamer Showdown companion channel running on VikingDan’s Twitch channel where he’ll be covering all 8 streamers with alternative commentary from some of the other WeStreamFM team.

 
 

Joe Nicholls

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