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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My team for the next GW loooooks a little like this:
Krul
Chico, Demel, Azpil
Nolan, Lallana, Gerrard, Hazard
Rodriguez, Suarez and Sturridge (CaptainWreckTheDanceFloor)
Bench : Mannone, Yaya Toure , Fonte and Ryan Bennett.
Have 2 FT and .4 in the bank. Thinking to bring in a Norwich Def?
Or I have a small problem of no keeper playing next week? should I use one transfer and fix this? any help booooys?
Krul to Ruddy wouldn’t be a bad move.
Wouldnt prefer having Ruddy there, unless you have a lot of spare money to spend. Olsson comes at 4.2M and Ruddy at 5M, a loss of .8M for you. Financially, its a bad move. Id suggest you just go ahead without a keeper and bring in Olsson.
Keepers usually score 3 points on average so it wouldnt hurt your team much.
Krul costs 5.2 million so buying Ruddy would save .2Million I think mate? maybe im wrong tho not sure?
He’s saying that you can still get Norwich cover for less money though since Olsson only costs 4.2m.
Good point. I thought Ruddy was cheaper than that.
oh yes yes i see, cheers for the help lads
Evening All :satansmoking: !
Lets all hope that no Chelski player will get injured today !
Evening HL, nah, lets get injuries, make the weekends comming up trickier. :big-lol:
Yeah – lets make this GW even more crazy than it already is :hippo:
Evening lads!
Just a quick question, which one out of these three should I start this week?
Collins vs EVE away
Parr vs SWA away
Noone vs TOT away
RITZ
Don’t really think any of those will give you any points. The best you can hope for is a Palace CS. Parr for me.
Cheers Tekno. I don’t expect much from either of them. Swasea are looking a lot better offensively, and Everton at home is definitely going to score. So I think i might just take the 2 points from Noone and have a small hope that he might get something more
That’s reasonable RITZ, I’ll have both playing myself so let’s hope for points for both of them.
Guys, I got 87 points in fantasy UCL… with a 5-2-3 formation. Not often you get a score like that when the majority of your team is defenders/keeper.
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Hello folks:
Here’s my current team:
Marshall (Mannone)
Williamson; Collins; Shaw; Sagna (Gabbidon)
Hazard; Huddlestone; Eriksen (Mata; Silva)
JRod; Suarez; Sturridge.
(2 FTs, £1m in bank)
Not sure why there is a yellow flag against Huddlestone, as he was on the bench for Hull vs Brighton a few days ago. Alos concerned that Eriksen didn’t play last week for Spurs.
The transfers I’m considering are Eriksen>Nolan and Huddlestone>Livermore.
I’m really struggling to be honest though,,,,can anyone help?
Thanks
Evening Red. You only appear to have 5 players for game week 29 mate. As you say, Eriksen has lost his place as has Gabbidon. I would look towards shipping in some players to cover for that week even if just short term as none of your suggestions have a game on 29 either
Thanks B-Bash – I will look at GW29 and bring in 2 players who will have a game in that week and then look to do the same before next weekend – so I should have 8 by then.
I would look towards Gabbidon to Olsson, if you can’t get a Chelsea defender. Midfield there is Snodgrass, Puncheon or Paulinho.
redmecca, Hudd is only flagged because Bruce said he took a knock and hence the early substitution. He will be fine so scrap that one. Agree with B-Bash on the other though mate, you need someone who will play in both 28 & 29. Tomorrows Tips article tackles this but it’s really slim pickings! I think the best we came up with were Charlie Adam and Snodgrass. Adam would be my pick.
Changing (c) to Ronaldo fairly worked, too bad the rest of my team was utter shite!! 65 only, how did you’s get on??