Captain Picks Gameweek 28 – FPL Fantasy Football Premier League
Those that captained Daniel Sturridge over Luis Suarez in GW27 were reminded how rewarding getting your skipper choice correct is – while those that stayed loyal to Suarez were again left frustrated not only at him, but also at their own gutless behaviour – me included! Well, GW28 will provide the same dilemma for many, but with a few more supporters for Sturridge, I suspect! But away to Southampton is not the easiest, so let’s go through all the standout options.
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Eden Hazard
It’s been a quiet couple of weeks for the midfielder since his barnstorming hat-trick vs Newcastle in GW25 – but fear not, it’s a short journey down the road for Jose’s men as they take on bottom-of-the-table Fulham at the Cottage, a ground where the Blues haven’t been beaten since 2006. Now with Oscar, Torres, Eto’o, Willian et al all very inconsistent, it’s been Hazard who has been Mr Reliable for Chelsea this season, offensively anyway – and with twelve goals and eight assists to his name already this term, it would be no shock to see him leading the Blues to another win on Saturday. You only have to look at the stats for Fulham – just three clean sheets all season and by far the worst defensive record in the division – jeez even Torres may score!
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Daniel Sturridge
Sturridge has now outscored his partner in crime six weeks in a row and is still owned by just three teams out of ten, so those of you who own him still have a decent differential! The England striker has now scored in eight successive league matches and has added some assists to his portfolio too. Playing central while the likes of Suarez, Henderson, Sterling, Coutinho and Gerrard add the creativity around him, means Sturridge has now overtaken Suarez as Liverpool’s main man up front. Can he continue this great run? Well you would imagine so, given that West Ham knocked three past Southampton last weekend.
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Luis Suarez
A mini-crisis? Has he lost his touch? Being played out wide is certainly affecting his fantasy returns as we have commented above. But we all know that form is temporary, class is permanent and that Suarez’s next goals are not far away. But can he still be considered captaincy material? Well that’s up to you, but it would take a brave punter to turn his back on the undoubted potential, remembering what the striker can and has produced. Four games without a goal for the Uruguayan certainly is a mini-crisis and it may well be that it’s his strike partner who tops the charts again this week.
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Emmanuel Adebayor
“Give him the ball….and he will score” is again reverberating around the Lane. Which, to be fair is better than the droney way they manage to sing “Oh When the Saints Go Marching In”. I guess that’s what day-release does to you. Anyway, back to Ade – inconsistent, but deadly; lazy, but unplayable. Which one will turn up this weekend? Who knows, but eight goals since AvB got the boot suggests he is happy again, though it may be worth considering that seven of these eight goals have come away from home, which is a concern. Saying that, they’re at home to Cardiff, who make Man Utd look solid at the back right now and were thumped 4-0 at home to Hull last weekend! With most of the squad fit again, it would appear that Ade will be presented with a few chances on Sunday – he just needs to break that hoodoo at home if he is to make those FPL managers who will captain him, happy.
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Other possibilities:
Romelu Lukaku – expected to come straight back into the team following injury. West Ham at home suggests Everton will dominate, but will the big striker manage to penetrate one of the division’s more stubborn defences?
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Wilfried Bony – two goals at Liverpool last weekend will have done his confidence the world of good, but the Ivorian striker has failed to net in successive games for the Swans. But Palace away is not the Palace we see at Selhurst Park so chances should come Bony’s way.
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Thanks for reading Captain Picks, this article was written by Cookie
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Great stuff Cookie thank you, so are you coming over to the dark side this week or are you sticking with Goofy? Could be the week that he breaks that duck.
init – You sticking with Sturridge then yeah?
NIN I’d probably plump for Ade this week if I had him. But I haven’t! So yeah probably…
init – Hmm, it’s actually a pretty tough call, i’ll have to do mull it over some more.
Depends on whether I buy Ade or not, Init – can’t decide – Bony was for the chop, then scores two against the Pluds – gonna try and do some work on transfers this afternoon.
But to answer your original question – out of Sturridge and Suarez, I’d captained Sturridge now, for sure. The Goofy is dead, long live the nob dancer!
Captains article all morning, bit of lunch, transfers all afternoon. Got any jobs going at your place?! 😉
Yeah, defo – I need someone to go buy my lunch :bitch:
Guys, Benteke is the man to be captained. Why?
In the past i have taken out two players prematurely, despite with good fixtures, and they started to give big returns. Two examples are Mirallas and Giroud. This week i wanted to take out Benteke, but didnt. So yeah, lame reasoning, but Benteke should score.
Also, here is a twisted question.
Would you rather bench Silva for 2GWs and save him for DGW or take him out for Mata? This means ill get Aguero for DGW to cover City, so Silva will be benched at least for 1GW.
So, Silva benched for 2GW and kept till DGW?
OR
Silva benched for 1GW and then swapped with Mata?
Or would you prefer going triple on Liverpool by getting Gerrard ? (Already have SaS)
The B – I’d rather keep Silva than Buy Mata, i recently had Mata but sold him pretty quick, i’m not seeing much value in any United players at the moment, maybe Januzaj actually but it’s hard to tell when he’s going to get a start.
Both have been fantasy snails this season, racking points only gradually. With 9.8M i cant really find a solid midfielder who guarantees returns. I wish there were two Hazards.
Oy B, Silva over Mata for me.
Do you still think I should bring in RvP over Adebayor after United’s performance yesterday? I’ve become rather skeptical myself, it doesn’t matter much if RvP has an easier fixture in GW 29 if they play so poorly.
Tekno. Not so sure. But i think ManUtd can score 2 goals at WB and RVP should be involved. RVP doesnt offer good value for money, but if you have the money for GW29, go for RVP, only to replace him with Aguero later though.
Cookie – Good stuff man thanks for that, it’s between Sturridge and Adebayor for me, tough call.
Cookie: Predicting Torres’ goal is an ultimate insult. :cuss:
Jeez B have I upset you again!! :hippo:
Damn it Cookie. Its happening every week, just with different phrases. But I like the creativity of adding Torres there in the sentence. It wasnt predictable, better than reading “Fulham is crap. Oh they leak goals” all the time.
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Hee hee as I said to you Friday, if you manager co-operates in his pre-match presser, I will be nice – if he acts like Moyes he will get it. So its not a targeted attack, thou shall reap what thou shall sow.
A. Johnson or Mirallas for GW 31? (Assuming New v Eve will be played in GW 31). Everton’s fixtures are nicer.
Doesn’t Sund already have the DGW in 31 vs Norwich and ‘Pool? So I’m going with Johnson.
Yeah, but there’s a chance Everton will also have a DGW in GW 31, so I’m asking who to bring in between them assuming Everton also have a DGW. Everton would play Swansea at home and Newcastle away, considerably nicer fixtures than Sunderland’s two away matches.
Ah yes. Sorry, misread. You’re right Mirallas’ fixtures do look tastier. But I haven’t been sold on him yet this year. Hot and cold.
When will Everton’s possible dgw be sorted?
Colriles
Considering that two rearranged fixtures has been announced in the last days I won’t be surprised if we hear something soon. Everton already have two fixtures that needs to be rearranged (Palace and Newcastle), and if they or Sunderland advance in the FA Cup they’ll have their GW 34 match postponed. Therefore I think it’s very likely that they’ll play in GW 31, hopefully we’ll hear something soon just to be sure.
Id prefer Nolan.
But Mirallas has better fixtures and his returns should boost with Lukaku’s return.
Player for player I rate Nolan over those two as well, but he won’t have multiple DGWs like both Mirallas and Johnson.
Tekno – assuming the DGW31 for EVE, I’d say Mirallas.
Tekno – Johnson for me.
Cheers for the article Cooks – between Sturridge and Haz for me, leaning Sturridge now.
Getting close to sorted for gw 29 & 31. Taking a -4 hit to field 8 in gw 29 and planning on Snodgrass > AJohnson and Lallana > Nasri for gw 31. Couple questions though:
1- Should I bring Lallana straight back in for gw 32 in place of Nasri or Mata?
2- Would you take another -4 hit ahead of gw 31 to replace JRod with Long/Jelavic of Hull?
1. Id prefer Lallana to replace Nasri, he doesnt have much fantasy potential. To be honest, i really think TomHud/Gerrard/Sterling/Nolan are better DGW and long term picks rather than Nasri.
2. Jelly for DGW? Sure!!!
Cheers B – I completely spaced on WestHam’s dgw as well so I would agree with Nolan over Nasri long term. Just was trying to take advantage of City cover at home to our Cottagers!
I get you Col.
The rule of thumb around here is to load on players who are facing Fulham. Sigh.