Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 16 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15
What can you do in two minutes? Well, keeping it clean . . . you could listen to Song 2 by Blur and rock out some fantasy league angst, you could read Bryan Munich’s inspirational quotes and think, ‘I’d love to remember that and quote it to appear intellectual (but I never will)’. You could cook two-thirds the way, a soft-boiled egg or watch Tim Vine tell you 56,676 jokes. Alternatively you could watch the entire performance of your fantasy football captain for the week.
Sergio Aguero, everyone. I don’t have the figures to hand but apparently an astounding 134% had the armband on him last week against Everton and the resultant intake of breath at approximately 5.32pm on Saturday as the Argentine (there I said it) crumpled to the turf and then cried, would have been enough to vacuum-seal the hole in the ozone layer.
FIXTURES
Burnley v Southampton
Chelsea v Hull City
Crystal Palace v Stoke City
Leicester City v Manchester City
Sunderland v West Ham Utd.
West Bromwich Albion v Aston Villa
Arsenal v Newcastle Utd.
Manchester Utd. v Liverpool
Swansea City v Tottenham Hotspur
Everton v Queens Park Rangers
Well, as I write there is no definitive update on the injury to Sergio Aguero but you’ll not be surprised to hear that I am proceeding without him this week but I have plenty of other options for you to ponder so let’s find your perfect partner. Now remember, please, your captain choice will either be a marriage made in heaven or more than probable, a ball and chain. Being able to accept either could happen and that it’s out of your control, is one of the keys to proper fantasy management.
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[/three_fourth]I think EDEN HAZARD is your best man this week.
The Belgian likes his home comforts for sure and his five goals so far this season have all been at Stamford Bridge. His last ten goals in fact have all been at home. He has two league assists and strangely they have been playing away. I don’t understand that either. Hull City come to town and it should be yet another routine home win. I’d read nothing in to the Newcastle loss. If such a thing exists, the Geordies are Jose’s bogey team. They’ll be a different beast this weekend with a return to winning ways despite the assist-king Fabregas being suspended. Mikel should again play with Matic returning but it’s the attacking trio of Hazard, Oscar and Willian supporting Diego Costa that should have you bound for points. Oscar is a nice captaincy alternative but Hazard is my tip due to his afore-mentioned Bridge record and given he is on penalty duties. Need one final piece of convincing? Well he has played 90 minutes in his last six league games (and 89 in the one before). Jose seems to like having him on the park. You might just think that’s the icing on the cake.
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[/three_fourth]Our next pick this week is Hazard’s team-mate, ‘throwing shapes (and elbows and hands) like a granddad-at-a-wedding’ Diego Costa. He may have disappointed a touch recently by missing games through injury and suspension and he likes a rumble does Diego so you have to always factor in a couple of lost points for a yellow card but hear us out… Let’s not forget he’s still scored 11 goals and has actually only played 12 games and 7 of them have come at the Bridge. This is no ordinary fixture either. This is Hull. At home. Chelsea have scored 18 goals at home in 7 games and despite their recent slip up at Newcastle and the blank at Sunderland you would have to think it will be business as usual for them this weekend and I fancy Costa will be itching to get back amongst the goals and it’d be a brave man who bets against him getting one or three against Hull. Now if only he could add an assist or two along the way…
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[/three_fourth]Under the lights at the Emirates and under pressure, there we again find Arsene’s Arsenal. I have my eye on a captaincy shout here but it is one of the evening guests I’m going for, PAPISS CISSE. Three in two for the Senegalese who to me, seems like the kind of guy who you played with at school who would just hang around the box and the ball would fall to him regardless. Newcastle are off the back of being the first team to topple Chelsea and Arsenal lost at Stoke (surely to save embarrassment Arsene, rather than not going out of the dugout and face the Stokies slagging him, he should just send Steve Bould with the reserves? Or forfeit?). Sorry, back to the game. Cisse has scored two in 38 minutes against Chelsea and 1 in 90 minutes versus Burnley. So the answer is clearly to chuck him on with ten to go and let him score three. Would I expect him to score three, well despite Per Mertesacker seemingly retiring from all football and not just the international variety after the World Cup, I would have to say no. Do I see him scoring again though and pleasing his 1.3% owners? I do.
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[/three_fourth]In truth I’m not expecting a great reception to that last pick so I’ll be boring and default back to a ‘big’ pick. For those who had Aguero penciled in as their captain come what may, it’s time to alter those plans. YAYA TOURE could be gold over the next five weeks and if you have him, you’ll fancy him rolling up to the buffet that is Leicester City, who putting it kindly, have been extremely poor since they beat Manchester United 5-3, what seems like seven years ago. Toure will have assumed penalty duties now and tucked his one nicely away on Saturday. A lot will now be expected of him as the senior attacking player in this side. Three goals in his last four games including swiping eight bonus points from a possible twelve and going up against the team with the second-worst goals conceded record in the league has a very nice ring to it. City should be Poznan-ing in the pews on Saturday. On the same page, boys and girls, you could have Edin Dzeko if he proves his fitness. A word of warning though, despite his excellent record in the league, he will be playing for a spot along with Stevan Jovetic so maybe best wait a week to assess the situation or just gamble if you’re that kind of a free spirit.
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Outside Chances
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[/three_fourth]For my final two, I’m going to select two very similar style players who have home matches and will hope to continue their decent form. Always the bridesmaid at Chelsea, ROMELU LUKAKU and Brendan’s one that got away, WILFRIED BONY. Both lads will be at home this weekend, Lukaku faces QPR while Bony is up against Spurs. I won’t make a great speech for either of these guys but I think they warrant some attention. Lukaku has scored in each of his last two home games and should probably be rested ahead of the match being as Everton, who play on Thursday, are already qualified in the Europa League. Whilst Bony has being doing plenty of favours for his owners having been amongst the points in his last four consecutive matches (scoring three and assisting one).
As usual, here are the traffic lights . . .
RED (Take a punt if you have him): Papiss Cisse
AMBER (Proceed with (a) caution): Diego Costa
GREEN (If you have him, armband him): Eden Hazard
A final thought:
Remember that you pick your captain, no one else. Unless it so happens to be one of the above three and they nail it, then you heard it here first people.
Enjoy your football.
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GP-good stuff,mate!!
Aaron Ramsey for me 😉 !
p.s. don’t have him …yet…but after 2night…who knows…
HL
Running in to some form for sure and only played 45 tonight.
Great article GP – it’s going to be a tough one this week!! Currently got it on YYT but hazard & Costa are also appealing
Mitro
Its another tough call this week.
Thanks GP, great stuff mate. Until Liverpool’s stinker of a result tonight i was 100% set on Hazard, but now van Persie is really tempting. Even a dodgy United team should have more than enough to comfortably beat them.
NIN
Reports reaching me from our Red Devils on here that Man Utd are not much better.
Big derbies are always so hard to call as well.
Yeah we’ve got problems, but as many as Liverpool? I may be the only one, but i’m confident of a win.
That being said. They just got 3 shots versus Soton. Pool defense is nothing compared to Soton. They’re like a big piece of cheese with a lot of holes in them. 😉
Precisely. Add to that that their GK is having a permanent shocker. I’m beginning to talk myself into this
United should win this one. They might be just as poor as Pool but they seem to have luck on their side. That being said, I think they were unlucky in their first 6-8 fixtures. Unlucky and bad at times but usually better than the opposition. Now they were terrible versus Arsenal and Soton but they win those. Just shows, in the EPL not always the best team wins. Which actually would suggest that Pool will win Sunday. 😉
No no no, that’s not allowed, not allowed at all 😉
Thoughts?
Sexy team.
Give GP 2 minutes 😉
:big-lol:
Feel asleep after the last one Init 😉
Sakho seems to be going up tonight. If you want him. Snatch him now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Before it’s too late.
With Carroll back, is Sakho even a certain starter? I’d much rather have Downing for West Ham and Austin for a cheap 3rd striker. Oh wait, I already do.
Just brought in Sakho for the 0.2 rise I hope he will make. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Plus I’m on wildcard, I had Austin but he was out for a match. 😉
That’s an interesting thought…
Id like to hear some more opinio s on that one,myself…
Is he ?
A certain starter now ?
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He should be. I think they both will start with Downing behind them.
Definitely HL – I think Valencia may play on the wing or they might even do 3 up front. Whoever thought that WH would have so many attacking options.
Sakho being one of the best and also being very important won’t be overlooked after a small injury and 1 supergame by the tall guy with long hair.
Of course the other thought is that since Sakho’s gone to ACON soon, maybe Same will play him every match that he can before he loses him. The main thing for me is that I want players that are almost 100% nailed to start. I don’t really know how Carroll being back will affect things, so I would stay away from them all and go for Downing if you want WH cover. Doesn’t matter who starts up top, Downing can assist any of them.
Well, I think it’s safe to say that Carroll will be starting the next few matches at least as Big Sam loves him and he’s back with a bang. So that leaves Valencia and Sakho to duke it out for the other starting spot, unless Sam goes with all 3 of them up top which I think is pretty unlikely. If it were up to me I’d start Carroll and Sakho most matches, but who really knows what Sam will do?
Then you’ve got Austin who is the main man at QPR, plays 90 minutes a match, and is on penalties. Sure, he’s out this week, but I’d take him over Sakho/Berahino/Kane every single time.
Ah – given all the players I have out, I’m going to go for Carroll – in case Sakho starts on the bench again. Can then go to Austin after that if I need to
Just be careful Dreamers, as it’s too early to tell who Sam will favor and this is just my opinion. But you’d think it would be hard to leave Carroll on the bench after that performance, right? Again, that’s what I don’t like about any of the WH strikers right now. I need someone who is nailed to start and we really won’t know what Sam will do until we can see the pattern, ya know?
ya I hear you Red.
Just not seeing a huge number of options. Rooney – playing deep, RVP – needs to show more consistency, Lukaku – inconsistent, it goes on. Austin looks the best bet but need a functioning team this gw and Carroll must be on a high after the performance last week. Its a bit of a punt.
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Austin>lukaku then take Austin back next wk
Or Austin>cisse or Sakho and chadli>Yaya
Or chadli>Yaya and play 4-4-2?
Wht is best?
Ummmm. Interesting. >.<
OI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm hearing YAYA is a must now Kun is out. I don't know to be honest. Hoping Silva will make a comeback soon.
Yeh silva is a gd option but dnt knk whn hésite cmng back..
Whch option is better?
Or dummett>walisewsky and chadli>Yaya for -4?
Dnt knw whn to do:/
I think I would bench Austin. His fixtures are just too freaking tasty. He’s actually not in my team at the moment because I’m on wildcard, waiting for Sakho to rise. But the 2 homefixtures Austin has are just too awesome. Think he will do the best during the Xmas, plus he has something to proof after the red card. >.<
Anyway, I've had a really long day. I really can't think straight at the moment mate. Yaya will go up tonight, keep that in mind. He could be a must, I don't know yet. Sighs. Will see. Now have to fix my brain and get some sleep before I go crazy. Oyas.
Ok thnks for ur hlp mate