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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What you guys think? Did i nail it?!
No Hacko. You’ve still got Sanchez and JWP in midfield and need to bring in Zouma and Bellerin into defence. Please pay attention 😉
yeah you right, 7 defenders is the way to go these days
So guys, which 3 arsenal players are must haves right now??
Sanchez? Cazorla? Giroud? Bellerin? Walcott? Ospina? Ozil?
…if you could only choose 3
Long haul or right now? Sanchez only season-long must-have. I’ve got Sanchez, Cazorla and Giroud right now. And damn glad I capped Caz last weekend!
Col, that was a super score and you have great momentum. Your weakness is low team value, which means you need to duck n dive a bit now. You won’t like this advice, and of course I may be wrong
, but I reckon you now need to cash in Sanchez for someone a little cheaper and strengthen defence if you want to keep those green arrows coming.
*Raz sends gkw a page back*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4-qwFJZRc
Looks fun, I’ll wait till tomorrow to watch it Raz
Nothing to watch. GO A FREAKING PAGE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your JwP analysis was shite since FPL ain’t about goalscoring alone. If that were the case than Fabregas would be shite with his just 2 goals. >.<
ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey gkw – Thanks for noticing, been a good few weeks! I completely agree on Sanchez. I’ve been toying with the idea for a while now, just awful hard to pull that trigger. I’m guessing a lot will ride on the performance of Cazorla & Walcott. If I can get away with having one of those two than I’ll ditch Sanchez and upgrade elsewhere. Although I’m fine with riding Terry/Clyne/VanA for a while and hope to not use Baird & Wasil.
Nice question as ARS are a team with value players. By position:
GK: Ospina’s place seems safe now and decent value, but no better than cheaper alternatives (Pants)
DEF: Bellerin and Monreal are both great value if slightly risky, or Kos if you can afford him
MID: Cazorla looks nailed on, while the others especially premium-but-fatigued Sanchez now look rotation risks with CL matches coming up.
FWD: Giroud has a rumoured injury, otherwise nailed on.
Verdict: Cazorla, Bellerin/Monreal and probably Giroud but monitor team news
Great article Bryan see you left the 2 City boys till last can’t see any other option than Kun but then we all could be wrong thanks again top stuff
Unless Kun does a Sanchez before the weekend. 😉
As it stands now I have the top 4 of cap choices. :dance:
Hey Raz is your team all sorted do you thk lg term ADM is going to out score Silva even with MC run coming up
Don’t know mate. Just know that this game week I prefer Silva over Di Maria.
United playing now and Di Maria hasn’t scored (or RvP for that matter): they are 2-0 up and the goals are from Rojo and Mata.
Cheers Raz just thk with YaYa & Bony back soon could be more goals in City I’ll leave it as late as I can for news on San
What do you guys think about bringing in Caz for sanchez and then upgrading Puncheon to Sterling or Eriksen?
I’m waiting on Sanchez news first. Also, have you heard news on Fabs? As far as I can tell he’s just as big a risk at the moment as Sanchez. I’d hate to have them both. 😉
Not a bad idea Jog Sanchez might be out yet no news Cazol is the form player @ present & it would be Sterling for me
Jogabo, Sanchez could still work some wonders for Arsenal, including in the CL. But I reckon he won’t have enough gametime in the PL to be worth keeping as a FPL player. This week, sell him and buy Silva. Next, change Fab to Cazorla especially bearing in mind that Fab, Terry, Austin and Kane have blank GWs in GW27.
hmm good point thanks guys!
Raz i think you have to wait on news on Fab, dont see Mou saying anything but…
Will Chelsea have DGW with Spurs/Qpr or no? Have 3 of them Atm…
Hav, I reckon Chelsea’s DGW depends on FA Cup. If Leicester are knocked out, then maybe/probably they play in GW28. If Leicester go through, I think it needs to be later.
Damm, clueless what to do…
3chelsea, Kane+Austin. Need to drop Chelsea players before that than…
Keep Kane and 2 Chelsea, is my advice. Chelsea have great fixtures but Kane is in great form.
Good evening everyone. Here’s my team what do u think? No ft tho.
Is that your team? Do the walk of shame, now.
Ha whys that raz?
Listen to this song and you’ll have your answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Xl0Qry-hA