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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Going to get shot down am I. Don’t think its that bad raziel
Just taking a piss man. Your squad looks good. Instead of Boyd I’d like to have JwP on the bench though. The rest is good.
It’s not bad, Shane, but – oh wait, no WC. Well OK, you’ve nailed GKs and FWDs and some of the rest are passable but your bench is a mess. No need to take a hit this GW, and if possible save a FT next one. Then probably downgrade a midfielder (or Aguero or Giroud, if injured) and upgrade a bench player. Repeat if necessary…
Ha had me worried then thinking am I seeing different things. Might get rid of Downing aswell unsure. Sanchez best be fit for weekend too
All your posts are new comments no replies. ZOMG. We’ll reach the 1000 if you keep this on. 😉
I fear for Sanchez. I heard someone today saying he was really irritated he wasn’t allowed to play versus Villa, which is a good sign. Still, manager decides.
Raz, take a look at Eagles’ squad on post 22, his colour co-ordination is all wrong, maybe you could give him some tips on how to get the best out of reds, blues and stripes. :thumbup:
I decided that from now on I’m going to be colorblind. 😉
In all honesty, the Costa suspension has completely messed up my team. So I can’t judge anyone anymore.
As I (probably :)) said at the time, Raz, your team was already messed up by having Costa. But you’re now on your WC, no? – so what’s the problem?
True, it really sucked that Costa got 16 points from the last EPL match he played. :dance:
@ GKW
Since you’re avoiding the JwP discussion you started on the other page, let’s move on. How is your WC team looking?
At the moment mine looks like this. Will still make a lot of changes though, I think.
Well Raz you already know my thoughts on most of those. Ok so there’s a case to be made for most of them. Yun, though? 😉
Yun is temp. He’ll be out. Trying to figure out what will work best. Might even ship in Lloris before the blank GW so I can use him in the DGW. :dance:
Not set on that move yet though. Yeah, this is all just temp, like you said, potential risers in the team.
Raz, I’ll get back to the JWP page in a mo but close to falling asleep tbh. No major changes to my WC from earlier. Overnight I’m just holding potential price-risers like PVA in the hope of some cheeky profit, but that would just be a Bonus.
I think JWP is good choice for maybe a couple of weeks but I don’t think he will start when everyone is fit. Schneidelin and Wanyama are first choice. And behind Pelle they have Elia, Tadic, Mane, the new winger and Davis who plays a lot.
London Evening Standard reckons Sanchez will be back for the Spurs game – they are pretty much spot on when it comes to Arsenal.