Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 37

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 37 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15

“One more double for the road . . . .”
Two weeks and the English Fantasy Football will be over for another season. But as a famous philosopher once posed, Why Do All Good Things Come To An End?*. Fear not people, we do have the Copa America in the summer and there is bound to be a fantasy game for that. If not, I have a South American correspondent who can knock a game up for us. Mito mate, on an unrelated matter, can you drop me a line? Also some crickety thing apparently . . .
*It was Nelly Furtado in fact.
The last time I wrote a captains article (when I was supposed to!) I was slaughtered for selecting ten players and it was suggested by a few that I was covering my posterior somewhat. I’ll go for fewer this week then, but I still feel with only two weeks to go, I should view from both the Chaser and Chasee standpoints.
For the anoraks among you, you may have noticed that my scheduled week was last week to write this but I was tied up with work unfortunately and this led to the brilliant Lawdogg covering me. If you manage to figure out this captaincy article rotation then answers on a post-it note please.
I’ll set the scene. There was a frosty atmosphere in FF247 Headquarters when I let the plowers-that-be snow that I couldn’t meet my commitment and in all honesty I thought I was on a slippery slope but its ice to know we have the likes of Lawdogg who has the grit and determination to step up and produce an article which was all-white by me. *This sentence was brought to you by ‘CHINS’ WAFFLES’. “You know its true waffle when it’s all over your Chins”.

The Fixtures
Southampton v Aston Villa
Burnley v Stoke City
QPR v Newcastle
Tottenham Hotspur v Hull City
Sunderland v Leicester City
West Ham Utd v Everton
Liverpool v Crystal Palace
Swansea City v Manchester City
Manchester United v Arsenal
West Brom v Chelsea
Arsenal v Sunderland

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[/three_fourth]Alexis Sanchez – Well it’s generally accepted that when there is a DGW, you captain someone with two matches. There is a man who may be the exception to the rule (more of that later). What else do you need? Well one home match at least? Yup. Playing in a team that have something still riding on their games? Yup. Playing in a team creating multiple chances? Yup. Being arguably the best player in that team? Yup. All of the previous describe Arsenal and specifically Alexis Sanchez. The lethal Chile international will be aiming to finish the season like a train, get Arsenal into second (a Premiership title to them!) and get back to the form of pre-Christmas where he was red-hot. He has posted double-digit returns eight times this season including 15 the last time out. The kind of guy who could score well despite it being Manchester United away so if he can nick something there, it sets up beautifully the Sunderland match at home. Surely the most popular choice from the Gunners.

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[/three_fourth]Aaron Ramsey – This of course is assuming that he is fit and ready for 180 minutes in the game week and who can predict that? What is going for the midfielder is his recent scores where he has 9, 12 and 11 in the last five and looking like the Ramsey of last season when he was absolute gold in the fantasy world. His ninety minute appearance in the Swansea match was encouraging fitness-wise and now we must wait for subsequent news from The Voyeur on his reaction which will offer an insight as to whether you side with the Welshman.

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[/three_fourth]Olivier Giroud – Well his recent form isn’t tearing any trees up as he has blanked in his last four. Before that he was on his lethal run of six consecutive games of scoring which included a double at Newcastle and in this run he grabbed ten bonus points. Welbeck is injured so he has the striking role to himself and with an embarrassingly good supply line behind him, this DGW could be where we see the Gorgeous Gallic Goal-getter. . . . er . . . get goals? Scored against United earlier in the season.

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[/three_fourth]Sergio Aguero – Now as I mentioned above, there is a man who can single-handedly and single-gamedly send your gameweek in to the reaches of fantasy dreamland. Sergio Aguero would be that man. As almost every fantasy manager will be toying between their Arsenal contingent for the armband, the man who produced a captains 46 (FORTY SIX) points this past weekend, is likely to be overlooked simply because he only plays once. Well he only played once on Sunday against QPR! Will you know better, hold your nerve and back the striker to continue to blitz the opposition away to Swansea? The enticing catch here is that if you do and he goes off once more and Arsenal don’t, you might actually make ground with an Aguero captaincy as strange as that sounds.

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[/three_fourth]David Silva – Well for those who captained Silva this past weekend, he nabbed you 32 points which is excellent going for a goal, two assists and 2 bonus points. Much like Aguero, this could be a captaincy call which could pay dividends if he matches previous tallies of 16 (now twice), 17, 14 and 11. The Spaniard is six points short of beating his best ever points total in the fantasy game and he’ll beat that over the next two I’m sure. This may be a call for those chasing a small mini-league deficit but for the way Silva can go off in games and an uncanny ability to snare the bonus points (stockpile of 27 and bettered only by Hazard and Sanchez), he could be your man as you roll the dice.

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[/three_fourth]Harry Kane – You’ll see below that I call him a ‘punt’ and if this was earlier in the season you would have laughed at me. Well more than usual. But the England International (isn’t it always the way that those Three Lions seem to normally derail a player when he seems to be at his best?) is not in the best of form (blame Hodgson). Hurrikane hasn’t scored since his hat-trick at home to Leicester. Well he scored one against Newcastle but so does everyone so you can count that if you are desperate. Even that was four weeks ago. The lad is just off the boil and it’s maybe not just him, Spurs themselves seem to have downed-tools for the season. But next it’s almost-relegated Hull at home and in a week where many are selling him, if you hold him and you need to strike now to win a mini-league, the Walthamstow lad may well just have a final home game of the season going away present for The Lane faithful and if you captain him, you may well be the cat who got the cream.

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[/three_fourth]Jermaine Defoe – The other participant in the final DGW of the season is Sunderland. There will be a few of us holding Pantillimon, van Aanholt and Brown (save your best gags for last they say). You get the point. There won’t be a stampede to get Black Cats’ coverage but if you are looking towards their strikers for a sideways shift from Vardy, Ulloa, or even Kane or Benteke, then Defoe seems the best bet. The guy scores goals and always has. This guy is captaincy material . . . . if you are 100 points behind in your mini-league. You’re 200 behind? Some guy called Wickham then.

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Traffic Signals:
RED: (Take a punt): Harry Kane
AMBER (Proceed with caution): Aaron Ramsey
GREEN: (If you have him, armband him): Alexis Sanchez/Sergio Aguero*

*Can’t split them and they are my traffic lights, so my rules, OK?

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**Final thought**
It’s been a pleasure writing these articles for you this season and I’m using this paragraph to say a massive thank you to the guys behind this site. In no particular order (except by how much they paid me for their listing….) Inittowinit, Cookie, Mito, Kop Warrior and Floydeth have created a site which is loved by so many. It is such a friendly, welcoming and knowledgeable site with a great array of characters as a supporting cast.
Shout out too to my “Captains Bros” – Chins, Bryan Munich, Calvin Clyne and Lawdogg who have just nailed every article they have put out. Word. You get me?
On that note, if you’re reading this, and you have something that could be published that you think is worthy, then email the team because if it’s got a place, they will find a place. They rarely say no so if you have an idea, the guys would love to hear from you.
Good luck in the final two weeks, stick around the site and have a great summer. I’ll be back advising you on captain choices next season (unless you behave!)

Enjoy your football!

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Thanks for reading Captain’s Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 37. This article was written by The Gallant Pioneer

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