Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 10
Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 10.
It’s all about… the vice!
“Ivan says he’s going to pick you as Captain next week but I think he’s just doing it to wind Smash up (even) more”
When I initially asked our writing team for their Captaincy input this week it was about 1pm on Sunday. By 6pm, I was met with a mixture of silence and incredulity. After all, Salah had just done that, to Ole and co. And he has a home game this weekend against Brighton. In all honesty, I could have just left it at that but it felt like a dereliction of duty to not at least address the issue.
This will not be a long article. The fact of the matter is that we are possibly about to witness the most captained player ever. If he fails then at least we all fail together, and for once it won’t matter a jot to your rank either way. Which sort of sucks the fun out of the game a bit but it is what it is. This is perhaps the first time since the initial Ronaldo days at Old Trafford, or maybe some of the latter Suarez ones since we had such a scenario.
It is for good reason though. We assume that most people reading this have at least a passing interest in watching some games or at the very least the highlights. For those who don’t, or even for those who do, but perhaps don’t necessarily appreciate what they are seeing; we all know Salah is wonderful, but we oft wondered if he had peaked. The answer to that so far this season has been an emphatic ‘NO’. He has clearly kicked on to another level, a whole different level. A level we are used to associating with the likes of Messi, that level when the best players seem to be playing a different game to the rest and everything looks so easy to boot.
All that said, he’ll probably blank this weekend now!
If anyone wants to give a coherent argument against picking Salah this week then please feel free to do so in the comments below. I’ll not hold my breath.
Vice Options
Potentially more pertinent though is the very small possibility that he gets a rest ahead of a midweek clash with Atleti in the Champions League. Personally I think this is highly unlikely and the more likely scenario is that he starts, Liverpool have the game in the bag and he bids us ‘adios’ after about an hour.
Just to be super sure though I think it will be wise to take your vice pick at least semi-seriously. I won’t go off on one quoting stats galore for a pick that you probably won’t need but instead, I’ll simply peruse the fixtures for the weekend and give you a bit of a rambling rundown on what I find…
The fixtures…
Hmmm. Initial thoughts here are that it may be slim pickings.
- We have a potentially half-fit Vardy vs a slightly improving Arsenal.
- Burnley won’t give much up against Brentford.
- Foden is Man City’s top league scorer with 3 (Salah got 3 in 17 minutes vs Man United), so another run out at false 9 may be tempting vs Palace.
- Chelsea ran amok last week and Mount’s hat-trick caught the eye but even Newcastle are no Norwich. His 3 put him joint top-scorer for Chelsea but Salah scored that many in 17…. you get the gist.
- Watford vs Saints offers nothing.
- Surely Man United won’t capitulate again and it is not as if Spurs have been pulling up any trees themselves.
- A fit Raphinha vs Norwich sounds interesting, if he is…
- Antonio vs Villa may be one of your better options.
- Unless DCL returns you can forget Everton and Wolves haven’t looked much better. Or certainly not consistently enough anyway.
The confessional…
This is where we ask our entire writing team to tell us who they think they will pick this week… There are more caveats and get-out clauses than a Lionel Messi contract but this is their initial gut feeling based upon who they actually own.
DMC — Salah
Jamesimmo — Salah
Ivan — Trent
Swirly — Salah
Horse — Salah
Matt — Salah
Loud Atlas — Salah
Smash — Is this even a question?
Kop — Salah
The Gallant Pioneer — Salah
Rosco — Salah
Ellefcee — Salah
Floydeth — Salah
Init — Salah
Mito — Salah
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Thanks for reading Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 10. This article was written by Inittowinit.
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***NEW ARTICLE – CAPTAIN PICKS GAMEWEEK 10***
A clean sweep. Sometimes you must do what is glaringly obvious. And obvious is just what the entire writing team intends to do. We would be misleading you if we tried to convince you to do otherwise. So, we won’t. So, for one week only (don’t quote me on this) we have downed tools. Init takes up the reigns to explain a captaincy article that is brief, succinct, to the point… whatever you want to call it. He also throws down a gauntlet of sorts, I don’t expect many to take it up. But hey, you never know!
Apart from Ivan……!
As the cries of ‘are you Cookie in disguise?’ ring out!!
Prob captains Salah anyway it’s the same every week
Brownhill all the way for me.
Feels like an unpleasant euphemism…
At work, we refer to such occurrences as ‘Brown Hawk Down’. Ben White was most definitely Brown Hawk Down this evening. Hope he’s ok for the weekend, my team is lit up like a Christmas Tree…again.
Maybe around Xmas time they could animate the site a little. Yellows could flash like Belisha Beacons. Reds could be represented by robins, fluttering around a little. Either that or use the holly leaf, with a red berry meaning the player is injured.
It was an unsubtle comment about many of the UK’s waterways currently having untreated sewage dumped into them.
Another great article, thanks Rosco!
All thanks to Init, tonight I am merely the conduit!
Ah, well thank you Innit!
Well then just to be obstinate (remember Warner when Smith was creaming it in !). I had such a shitty week from my WC last week, I’m going Havertz for cappo. If it works I’ll get such a differential and when it probably doesn’t I’ll pretend to be red/green arrow colour blind
Very risky – for me owning Havertz is sufficient.
However if it comes off then it’ll be one to add to your memoirs.
Raph
That’s a relief
Brilliant news was sweating on Raphina hopefully gets a decent return against Norwich
Thanks very much. Of all the flags, this is the one that bothers me the most. I might actually have a starting eleven on the field-touch wood.
Cheers Rosco!