Women's Champions League Fantasy Football: Quarter-final second legs tips

With 18 goals scored across the four quarter-final first legs, players in a wide range of positions boosted their Women's Champions League Fantasy Football tallies during last week's first legs.

Fantasy managers have three free transfers available to use before the second legs kick off at 18:45 CET on Wednesday 1 April. We look at the leading Fantasy performers, who the most popular picks are and what the rules and deadlines are.

Who were the top Fantasy performers in the first legs?

Goalkeepers

Wolfsburg's Stina Johannes (€4.9m) was the only goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in the first legs, picking up six points in her side's 1-0 victory over OL Lyonnes.

This drew her level overall with Phallon Tullis-Joyce (€5.5m), who remains the joint-leading Fantasy goalkeeper despite only gaining a point in Manchester United's 3-2 defeat to Bayern München.

Wolfsburg's Stina Johannes kept a clean sheet against eight-time winners OL Lyonnes in the first legGetty Images

Defenders

Maya Le Tissier (€5.8m) delivered 12 points for the 44% of Fantasy managers who have her in their squads, moving her onto a joint-leading 66 points for the season. The Man United captain converted a penalty, assisted a goal and completed six ball recoveries in her side's loss to Bayern.

Another goalscoring centre-back, Irene Paredes (€5.7m), picked up ten points for her contribution in Barcelona's 6-2 success at Real Madrid. Katie McCabe (€5.5m) boosted her Fantasy tally by seven points following her set-piece assist for the opening goal of Arsenal's 3-1 win against Chelsea, while Man United's January signing Hanna Lundkvist (€4.5m) gained eight points after finding the net against Bayern.

Man United captain Maya Le Tissier picked up 12 points in the quarter-final first legsGetty Images

Midfielders

Fantasy's most popular midfielder, Alexia Putellas (€10.2m), put in a Player of the Match performance and added 13 points to her total, by scoring and assisting in Madrid.

Only Linda Caicedo (€7.2m) has picked up more Fantasy points in midfield this season than the two-time Ballon d'Or winner; the Colombian international scored twice against Barcelona to accumulate 14 points — the most of any player in the quarter-final first legs — and extend her overall tally to 62.

Forwards

Arsenal's Alessia Russo (€10.6m), who appears in a leading 69% of Fantasy squads, picked up another nine points when she scored against Chelsea, moving her onto eight goals this campaign as top scorer. Only defender Le Tissier can match Russo's overall Fantasy tally of 66 points, and the English striker followed up on her first-leg Player of the Match performance by scoring a hat-trick against Tottenham Hotspur in the Women's Super League on Saturday.

However, three other forwards gathered more points than Russo in the first legs: Bayern's Momoko Tanikawa (€6.0) and Pernille Harder (€6.9m) achieved 12 and ten points respectively, while Barcelona's Ewa Pajor (€10.5m) scored twice and was awarded ten points.

Quarter-final second legs rules and deadlines

Fantasy managers can make use of up to three free transfers between the first and second legs of the quarter-finals. A further five free transfers will become available to adjust squads ahead of the semi-finals.

The deadline for making transfers for the first legs is 18:45 CET on Wednesday 1 April, kick-off time in Bayern vs Man United.

After the first day of fixtures, Fantasy managers can replace players who didn't score as highly as hoped with substitutes and switch captains until the teams lock again when Barcelona vs Real Madrid begins at 18:45 CET on Thursday 2 April.

Check out the line-ups from every match to see whether members of your squad started previous games, and recap on all the Fantasy rules here.