Captain Picks Gameweek 29 – FPL Fantasy Football Premier League
With just half a set of fixtures this weekend and the likes of Liverpool & Man City not involved in FPL action, the choice as to who to give the armband to is severely limited. No Luis Suarez or Daniel Sturridge debate to fret over – phew!! With a low scoring week in prospect, it is therefore vital to pick through the bones as to who may perform the best – not that the obvious choices always perform the best – for instance I don’t know anyone who selected Andre Schurrle in GW28!
So let’s have a look at the standout picks and then see if we can identify this week’s Schurrle!
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Eden Hazard
The Chelsea midfielder is second only to Luis Suarez in the scoring charts this season – rewards aplenty for those managers who selected and stuck with him from early on this season. Two more assists at Fulham last weekend plus 2bps gave him a weekly total of 10 points, resulting in him performing better than more popular picks such as Sturridge and Emmanuel Adebayor. Despite Mourinho suggesting his top midfielder needs a rest, it’s inconceivable that he won’t start against 5th placed Tottenham and you wouldn’t bet against him being the player to unlock a Spurs defence that does look more solid when Jan Vertonghen is fit.
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RvP
With an away fixture to struggling West Brom in a reduced game-week, why aren’t more of us buying RvP this week? He’s the obvious standout captain. How times have changed eh? Well, the 16/17% of teams that still own RvP will surely be skippering the Dutch forward against the Baggies, who are languishing just a solitary point above the relegation zone and are still yet to win under manager Pepe Mel. It is of course United’s poor form that prevents the rest of us chasing van Persie, though stats show that since his return from injury the striker has scored four goals in less than five league games – a single shining light in a season of darkness and gloom for the Champions. Those owners of RvP clearly have a big advantage this week and it may well be that those managers who still have a wildcard and plan to use it in GW31 will be buying and skippering the striker in a bid to make hay in what threatens to be a low-scoring week.
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Adam Lallana
The standout quality player in the Saints line-up, Lallana has spent the week with the England squad and he was eventually handed his chance in the second half last night and boy did he take it. His first touch of the night was a brilliant Cruyff turn and his overall fleet of foot and boundless enthusiasm may well prove enough to book his place on the plane to Rio. To top it all off another nice piece of skill and a perfectly weighted cross gave him the assist for Sturridge’s winner. Returning seven goals and eight assists already this season, the midfielder has fully justified his call-up to the full England squad and his performances for the Saints mean he is a real consideration for Roy Hodgson as he contemplates his best team for Brazil. Palace away is not the easiest of fixtures and with just one win in four, its arguable that Southampton are not in great form, but anyone who watched their 3-0 defeat to Liverpool last weekend will agree the score line was very much flattering to the Scousers, with Lallana unluckily hitting the post and having a very valid penalty appeal turned down.
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Other possibilities:
Wayne Rooney
Scored his first goal in five matches last time out at Palace, days after signing his new contract. Despite United’s dismal form, Rooney’s class is unquestioned and it’s only the likes of him and RvP that can salvage anything from the season for the Reds. Expect him to be involved, hungry and desperate to do well – when Rooney wants to perform, he generally does and offers a cheaper option than the £13.6mln you’d have to fork out for RvP. Worth a gamble? Yeah, probably.
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Rickie Lambert
The England striker is having another consistent season and like Lallana, is trying to persuade Hodgson that he is worth a seat on the plane to Brazil. Often on the end of crosses from Lallana, Luke Shaw or Steven Davis, Lambert is a predatory goalscorer and his tally of eight goals would have been higher if he hadn’t spent a great deal of the season playing wider, allowing J-Rod to benefit from the more traditional no.9 role. With Lambert on penalties and lethal from free-kicks, it’s likely that a solid and improved performance from the Saints will result in a decent return from Lambert.
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And then back to our new friend…..
Andre Schurrle
Surely he can’t do it again? No of course he can’t (can he?), but last week’s hat-trick, plus the Special One repeatedly talking down Oscar’s fitness and Hazard’s tiredness, expect Schurrle to benefit from increased game time. Priced at just £6.9mln he is probably a better option than Oscar right now, in fact in just 761 minutes of football, he has already scored as many goals as his Brazilian midfield colleague, who has played almost 1,000 minutes more. For those holders of Charlie Adam (likely suspension) and Robert Snodgrass (doubt due to injury), maybe Schurrle can strike twice in a week….now what a differential that would be!
Whoever you choose, I wish you the best of luck. Please ensure you vote on the attached Captain’s Poll below.
Thanks for reading Captain Picks Gameweek 29, this article was written by Cookie.
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Well chaps. I was more than happy with adam until you know what. Now my FT will be used. My intention was to get city cover in abundance but now with the dgwk im thinking of getting mata this wk an maybe cpt him. A good choice? I must admit im not liking mata at manu but I see alot of top players have him in already (bar cookie)
Do i get mata this wk?
I’ve got him, but no goals yet – I’ll play him one last time this GW and then probably upgrade to YYT whose price has fallen temptingly low
had to do the same chopper
it will likely mean ill keep him til the DGW as i dont want to be taking hits to get rid of him and ive just about enough money if yaya and eriksen stay the same to do eriksen to yaya saturday ahead of GW30…….
the big issue ill have then though is that ill have 0 in the bank and no aguero
Two players have won the Europan Golden Shoe whilst playing in Scotland. Name them.
I don’t follow Scottish football but i’ll hazard a guess and say Larsson and McCoist hahaha, the only two i can think of !!
Nin, correct on both.
Name the oldest player to have won a Premier League Winner’s medal.
Has to be a Gooner, Bould? Seaman?
Nin, no.
Giggs?
Tekno, no.
Parlour? van der Sar?
Tekno, edwin is your man, well in.
Gotta be a keeper coz they’re usually older so Dave Seaman or Edwin van der sar I reckon?
Hamms, tekno just pipped you mate.
Too late :hippo:
Well done. Spent too much time sodding around with auto text trying to type van der sar lol
Name the only three cities who have hosted a World Cup Final twice.
Mexio City is one of them for sure.
B, yip.
Other should be Munich or Rome i guess.
Now bring me a PANCAKEE!!!!
B, rome, yes.
Rio -although technically they haven’t held it for the 2nd time yet
Hams, your not having that one.
Can’t believe you’re not letting me have rio!
I’m sure Germany have had 2 so is it Berlin?
Paris?
Evening mito, correct mate. I play you in the banterbury this week mate, don’t panic, you’ve won, well done. I’m not doing anything with my team this week, just leaving it + picking up next week.
Something a bit more thought requiring……
Name 15 players of modern times (’66 and onward) who have repeseneted the England 1st XI who have 4 letters in their surname. No cheating. I have 22 so letting you off easy (theres more I am sure). But 15 will do…
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How many times can we use Cole Drex are do they all have to be different?
NVM
Ball
Bull
Hunt
Cole (Carlton, Cashley, Andy)
Owen
Reid
Rose
King
Shaw
Hart
Hill
Gray
Ince
Alan
Joe Cole?
Good spot Josh, I’ll have another Cole.
Cool. I’ll take my cookie now.
Josh721, if you go to fixtures gw 29, page 1, post 6 theres a question for you to answer please, about mls, cheers.
elleffcee – I see it. I’m taking a look now.
nice…..whose alan?
Clive Alan former Spurs striker.
Think it was spelt Allen
Cole, cole, ince, dyer, bell, hart, owen, hunt, shaw, reid, ball, bull, todd, neal, butt, webb.
neil webb…good shout
Drexl, was there 2 hunts, roger + steve ? Not sure on steve.
Bent (darren) ?
Nish ?
Was there gordon hill + ricky hill ?
Owen
Roon
Yep. I am done…That’s all I know and that is if you let me count Roon.
Guessing with your non english heritage, Mito is not a name on the list….
and Shrek has 5 letters…..
Didn’t say Shrek, I said Roon…..you Donkey. 😉
No…Adams is 5 letters too