Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 24 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15
On any normal transfer deadline day nothing would have trumped Carlisle United’s procurement of Nathan Buddle from Blyth Spartans. But like a crossbar shuddering from a Geoff Hurst thunderbolt, the football world is still reverberating from the impact of Monday’s biggest story; Man Utd’s signing of defender Andy Kellet on loan from Bolton. When asked whether he’d still retain his 3-5-2 formation in light of this capture, Louis van Gaal mumbled, “But of course. We are in a bad moment like Queens Park Raisins. Kellet will make the youth team strong. This is football.”
If you went for Harry Kane as captain last week, one of Calvin Clyne’s tips, you’ll have been rewarded handsomely with a 26 point haul. Gambles on Cazorla and Walters would have been ever sweeter, shovelling 34 or 38 points respectively your way.
So to Gameweek 24. The fact that Andy Kellet hasn’t made it into today’s Captain Picks is testament to the quality of the quintet that has. Right, shall we?
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[/three_fourth]5. Theo Walcott (away vs Spurs)
He’s back, and just like nearly every other comeback he’s made, it caught most of us off guard.
After a few rusty cameo appearances from the bench, Theo already looks ready to stake a claim on our hearts, minds and most importantly a return to our FPL squads. He bagged a goal in his first league start in over a year, showing glimpses of the explosive form that brought him 14 goals and 13 assists in 2012/13. Having clocked up over 140 minutes including his FA Cup stint versus Hull, it would seem that Arsenal’s road runner is finally ready for the end of season run-in.
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4. Harry Kane (home vs Arsenal)
Spurs biggest signing of the transfer window was getting ‘one of their own’, and former Arsenal fan, Harry Kane to pen a new five-and-a-half year contract at The Lane, taking his tenure through to the end of the decade. Genuine 2020 vision. Of course, what will probably happen is he’ll be bought by Man City in 2 years and rebranded as Citizen Kane. Enough of the future hypotheticals. Right now, ‘Dirty Sanchez’ is in danger of being overshadowed by North London’s own sharpshooting Dirty Harry. A winning goal against the Gunners would surely embalm him eternally in Spurs folklore. Banking on a captain in the unique cauldron of a derby is a gamble. You’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Do I feel lucky?’. Well, do ya, punk?
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[/three_fourth]3. Eden Hazard (away vs Aston Villa)
How new recruit Cuadrado will affect Chelsea’s offensive dynamics remains to be seen, but one imagines very positively. Hazard’s productivity shows no sign of waning, with or without the addition of a pacy Colombian at Villa Park. Mourinho has often criticized, and been criticized for, teams that park the bus. Well, against a bottom of the form table Villa side that has failed to score in 10 hours and only netted 11 times all season, he can probably get away with parking a tricycle inconspicuously next to one of the fire exits. Another defeat in the manner of their 5-0 Emirates mauling, this time within the less forgiving walls of his home crowd, could see the much maligned manager finally doing the Lambert Walk. His main antagonist will be Hazard, who has recently proven with goals at Southampton and Spurs that Stamford Bridge is no longer the only Garden of Eden.
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[/three_fourth]2. David Silva (home vs Hull)
Following 3 straight defeats, fans of injury-ravaged Hull City will be hoping their players don’t show the same generosity that saw them contribute heavily to their own downfall against Newcastle. That’s if they can even get the ball off David Silva to begin with. Gran Canaria’s pocket-sized performer grabbed his 7th goal at Chelsea last Saturday, already equalling his career-best in the Premier League. An instinctive poke diverting a wayward Aguero shot back on course means we can now add poaching to his armoury of weapons. For the alliteration addicts at large, that makes him a poking, pocket-sized, poaching performer. For the FPL addicts at large, that makes him captaincy gold.
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[/three_fourth]1. Sergio Aguero (home vs Hull)
With the exception of Chelsea’s game at Villa Park, Man City’s fixture is quite arguably the only match of the weekend that looks predictable. What seems even more predictable is that Aguero will bag a nice wedge of FPL points. Yes, yes, he hasn’t scored since his return from his latest injury, but they’ve been against Chelsea and Arsenal. He’s played a modest 1,247 minutes in all so far this season, notching 14 goals with 4 assists. That’s a goal every 89 minutes! So there you have it. He is literally guaranteed to score against Steve Bruce’s timid Tigers who’ve conceded 11 without reply in the last 3 games. The only sane reason not to captain Sergio Aguero is if you don’t have him.
Thanks for reading Captain’s Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 24. This article was written by Bryan Munich
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Hey NiN, they asked me to tell you this.
Thanks fuzzy-wuzzy. I’ve sent them on an email so hopefully they can get it back up and running for me. Cheers mate, top man/bear :thumbup:
Afternoon guys – just realised I can afford to get Silva in for Chadli – thus, now I have a dilemma, so which combo would you prefer?
1) Silva and Bruce / Wasi rotation
((they rotate quite well, but Bruce is a rotation risk, so it’s a tad iffy really…)
2) differential mid (7.5m) and Clyne
((here I have a great one in mind (Cabella) which could help me catch up, and he has 2 great fixtures, but of course Silva could explode which concerns me…))
Afternoon James. I think i would go for Silva here. Hull are surely in for a spanking. I’ve bought him myself, as part of another -8. Should have no problem racking up points with these fixtures :thumbup:
Cheers NIN. Aye indeed, he looks great for this week, might just have to follow suit. Hope your hit pays off!
Thanks mate :thumbup: I learned my lesson after last seasons twat of a winter wildcard so i’m not hanging around this time. 3 GW’s since i played it and have already made 7 transfers! Oh dear
Right, i’m off for my dinner. Catch ya later.
hey guys,
waiting for team news later in the week but just thinking out loud, what do you think of:
Sanchez > Santi and Boyd> Silva for -4
would leave my mids looking:
Santi / Silva / ADM / Cesc (Downing)
Photek,
What’s the rest of your team?
Mighty,
here’s my current squad:
Krul / Foster
Clyne / PVA / Wisdom / Cameron / Wasilewski
Sanchez / Cesc / ADM / Downing / Boyd
Kun / Kane / Giroud
1ft 3.0m itb
Photek – Defense looks a bit weak, would think of upgrading that.
cool cheers
I see you have a lot of faith in Downing as you will have an expensive 5th mid. West Ham’s fixtures will be much tougher now.
photek – If Alexis is out then those players make perfect sense, i think. However, personally i would drop Downing instead of Boyd.
cheers guys I agree on Downing, don’t like his fixtures
I’d upgrade Boyd not Downing. An advantage of having 5 good midfielders as well as 3 good attackers is you just rest the one that has the hardest fixture each week. So that’ll be Downing more often than the others, but he’s still got some fixtures like Palace (h) coming up plus it gets easier in the last games of the season. At this point in the season you should look at fixtures through to GW38, not just the next few.
A lot of people are buying Sturridge right now. He went up 0.1 last night. Most people don’t realize he will be eased back into action and will continue as a substitute role:
Rodgers (talking about Sturridge): “He’s still a bit of time off starting. You saw when he came on he was still getting used to the surroundings again. It’s just about bedding him back in.”
He went up? Cant say i expected that to happen this week. I wonder how many of the top 10k have bought him. Aguero will do me fine. Just fine and dandy
Yes NIN he went up 0.1. Kun for me as well (and captain).
Same. Have to think he’ll bag a brace at least vs a woeful Hull.
Or a hat trick
What should I do ?
A) Betrand > Bellerin & adam Johnson > Cazorla.
B) Betrand > Clyne/Clichy/Koscielny & adam johnson > one of the options below.under 6.4
4.8 – Jack Colback ( 22 games, 2 goals, 5 assists )
4.8 – JWP ( 13 games, 0 goals, 7 assists )
5.6 – Puncheon ( 21 games , 3 goals, 4 assists )
5.6 – Elia ( 3 games , 2 goals , 0 assists )
A
Paynton,
I like ‘A’ as well.
Hi folks,
I’m looking to offload Bertrand and Rooney is giving me a headache too. What would you do?:
1. Bring in Clyne – £0 left
2. Bring in Jones – £0.6m left
3. Bring in Williams – £0.6m left
4. Bring in Zouma – £1.3m left
Would you also take a four-point hit to change Rooney to Sturridge (on the basis I brought in Jones, Williams or Zouma)?
All advice would be much appreciated!
Are you crazy? Your defence already looks doubtful. Muniesa and Baird………………. no comment.
Monreal rotation risk, Clichy (same though he played most matches ahead of Kolarov). Even though Zouma did very well I don’t see him starting every game. I could be wrong though.
If I were to get a defender out of those 4 I would prefer Clyne, Jones as second, Wiliams as third and Zouma as fourth.