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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Morning Shamim Silva for me I assume you don’t have Kun , bad move in lg term leave Tadic in who are the rest of your MF
This is my team..i dont know to make who as a captain..i put downing in bench because his team will face MU..I also doubt on austin because he will face southampton..walters also gave a good match..so what your opinion??
Shamim,
I think you need Kun in, some way or another. There’s too much money in your defense. I’d get rid of Skrtel for PVA and maybe even think of getting rid of Clichy? I’d downgrade Downing and this might give you enough to upgrade Austin/ Ings to Aguero.
what is PVA??
Patrick Van Aanholt for Sunderland
What do you guys think of this wildcard team?
Hacko – My only concern with your team is your lack of Chelsea defensive coverage. If I was you I’d downgrade Coutinho and then upgrade one of your defenders to JT. Also I’d get Krul/ Pants as a back-up ‘keeper in case Ospina loses his place (not that I think he will in the near future).
Morning Hacko not much wrong with this team only suggestion would be Jones > Kelly or double up on Ars Bellerin & Corut > sterling I would say your good to go good luck
Thanks silver, I’m happy with continho he’s a differential and has come in to form with Sturridge back, so taking a bit of a punt on him so don’t really see the point of removing jones given utds fixtures and I already have 3 arsenal, cheers!!!
Best midfielder for 5.9 & less? Getting Downing out, thinking Puncheon, Walters or Larsson?
dont forget ELIA..downing is very good..no need to out him
Shamim,
Yes, Downing is good, however he has some horrible fixtures coming up.
I’d probably go with puncheon, has the most attacking threat out of those for me
Hacko,
Shamim made a good point about Elia. You think he’d be a good move or is he a rotation risk?
I think he will be rotation risk..you will enter him when his team will face the lower club
Shamim,
You not think he’s worth a punt as he’s played 60+ minutes in his first 3 matches? My only concern is Mane and him competing for the same position.
Whites,
Remember they also now have picked up Djuricic on loan from Benfica who is an attacking midfielder/number ten as well. I think you may see a fair bit of rotation in the Southampton attacking area of the field.
I was going to bring in Elia this week due to his price and being decent value for an attacker in an established club but I think I may just stick with Pelle who I think is assured.
GP,
Good point, forgot about him! Would you get rid of Downing? Im think I’m going to do Pelle to Giroud but need 0.3 to fund this and think it’s his time to go with his fixtures coming up.
De Gea – Krul
Terry – Fonte – Wollscheid – Keane – Wisdom
Sanchez – Di Maria – Fabregas – Downing – Boyd
Aguero – Pelle – Kane.
Whites,
Wouldn’t blame you on going for Giroud or losing Downing although I do personally think Downing might go steady and probably will still pick up an assist or two even though the fixtures are tough as you say. It all comes down to who you think will be more explosive over the next six games whilst Downing is supposedly up against it.
Who are you considering for his replacement?
I assume you want to stick with DDG despite the lack of CSs? Ospina seems to be making a bit of appeal just now and has good fixtures coming up.
GP,
I suppose he could still do ok. I was thinking Larsson, Walters or Puncheon. However, looking at it, for his price, Downing is still good value.
You think Ospina will keep his place for the long run?
Whites,
I don’t see why not. He is in the team and collecting clean sheets, you have Krul as a back-up anyway just in case. It could be a risk worth taking for just £4.8M.
For almost a million more, DDG isn’t worth it on current form I don’t think.
GP,
I suppose you’re right! Pelle to Giroud and DDG to Ospina this GW then?
Whites
Would be your call only if you feel it could work. I think it could but trust your own instincts.
Certainly the Giroud move seems completely fine to me and I fancy Ospina could still be brilliant value at £4.8M
Morning folks. Anyone know what’s up with FFF? I’ve been struggling to reload my team for a couple of weeks now and last night i logged out for the first time in a few months and now cant get back in. I sent them an email 4 days ago but have got no response.
NIN
No issues at this end mate.
Must be you 😉
Odd. Seems my FFF days are done so!
NIN,
I’m more surprised your email hasn’t been answered. I’d maybe send another old chap!
NIN – Working fine for me mate.
Very strange. A couple of days back i tried to reload my team and as usual, nothing happened. So i tried it again and left it be for an hour. Still nothing. Now when i try to log in it tries for about a minute then i get an error screen. Oh well. Back to making transfers in the dark so
In the meantime if you need help trying to find any defensive rotation or some other of their features just ask and I can try to see it for you.
Thanks Albertini. Much appreciated mate :thumbup:
No worries 😉
Hey NIN for some reason you have to log in with your FPL pass word I had set my FFF with a different password & then it wouldn’t let me in when I typed my FPL password in let me str in try it
I know mate. I’ve been using the site without any problems for months but now it’s not working anymore.
NiN, you want me to tweet them a screenshot of your complaint? I know you probably can’t figure out how to get back on Twitter either. :hippo:
Haha, cheeky bugger 😉 Yeah would you mind doing that mate? I’ve tried to reload my team dozens of times but it just stalls. Below is what i’m getting when i try to log in. Screen is completely blank aside from this…
Nin if you are using a bookmark to log in i had the same problem.Delete the bookmark and try logging in again through google (or whichever search engine you use) worked fine for me then.
Thanks Brooky. I’ve always used the link on here to access FFF. I tried via Google too but the same thing happens. Really strange goings on, as everyone else seems to be having no trouble with it at all. I thought it might be my Anti-Virus but have checked that too and no settings have been reset/changed. Weird.
Hi all,
Have lots of problems with the squad…
2FT, so decided to do 3 transfers.
Old squad on the left – transfers on the right.
What do you lads think?
Sanchez – Cazorla
Kane – Giroud
Bertrand – Demichelis
Any advice?
Thanks
Respect – Not sure about getting Kane out. If you’re getting Giroud in, personally I’d get him for Pelle. If I was you I’d just do Bertrand to Fonte/ Clyne and if needs musts, Sanchez to Caz.
Respect1987 – I’m not seeing much value in those transfers, to be honest. Sanchez may be okay for this weekend. Demichelis will lose his place once Mangala is fit again. Kane’s form is just too good to sell him. I would sell Bertrand for van Aanholt and then wait for word on Sanchez before making any other moves.
I have Sunderland GK, so don’t want to double up.
Respect,
Personally would deal with Bertrand and leave Sanchez and Kane well alone pal.
anything else to change GP? Will do Bertrand to Fonte as my rivals have Clyne.
Respect,
Sounds a good transfer to me. I’d save the other transfer and also, put Sanchez in your team. If he doesn’t play, then he’ll be brought out but you’ll kick yourself if you leave him out and he starts.
Hi guys, haven’t posted my team for a while due to mass celebration of Australia’s recent Asian cup win. But now that’s done i need some help with my team. Looks quite strong for this week however it also has its problems. I want to get rid of Bertrand, Downing and Pieters as soon as possible. 1ft and 3.3 in the bank. Any suggestions?
TomW,
I’d either do Bertrand to Clyne/ Fonte or Pieters to Wollscheid.
+1
I reckon Downing can wait a week in your case Tom.
Yep, Pieters to Wollscheid and just keep Bertrand on your bench till he’s back