Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 12
Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 12. It’s not even midweek yet — you probably haven’t had a chance to clean your bed sheets from last weekend’s action — but, given FPL’s intrinsic infidelity, it’s already high time to recommence the search for your next one-gameweek stand and gently feel thei- ok, I’m sorry, not again. We’ve reached November now; things are getting serious. Shall we discuss a selection of 5 players who’ve performed well recently? What a novel concept. If every FPL manager who read this weighed in afterwards, perhaps the consensus could be visualised via some sort of online poll, revealing the trustworthiest of long-term armband-bearers. Frankly, if the FF247 admin can continually clear up the digital mess that I cause whilst uploading articles, anything’s possible. Let’s carry that cautious optimism over to candidate No. 1 for this weekend…
Mohamed Salah vs Fulham (H)
Fulham have somehow conceded 29 goals already: that’s 4 more than lacklustre Burnley allowed, 5 more than lowly Cardiff have shipped and 11 more than the Man United backline became permeable to. Many would argue that Man City, who have the honour of hosting the latter flops on Sunday evening, are the go-to team for goals and captains again; some would argue, in fairness, that Pep’s tactical genius is actually down to his baldness and the 10 minutes per day of contemplation time that he gains from not having to scrub his infertile scalp. Twitter’s a wonderful place.
I digress. Only against The Champions has he, Mo Salah, blanked at home so far. His collated Anfield scores: {8, 8, 8, 3, 15, __} and, whilst it’s a daunting task to mathematically predict what’s next in that absurd sequence, my gut instincts tell me that it’ll be considerably greater than 3 points, which arguably illustrates why I’m a dubious physicist. The takeaway: any other captaincy this weekend seems equally questionable.
Form: 7
Fixture: 9
Explosiveness: 8
Eden Hazard vs Everton (H)
LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 04: Alvaro Morata of Chelsea celebrates with teammate Eden Hazard. (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)
It’s worth noting that Eden has a similar anti-blank home record: {4, 11, 20, 10, 1, 4, __} is even harder to predict, with those 4s coming from two 20-something-minute cameos, two substitutions that won Chelsea the match through Hazard’s influence. That aggravatingly burning rash (of temptation) from last weekend, one that may well be teasing you towards dumping him for Sterling, should clear up quickly once this dwarf starts waddling again.
Form: 6
Fixture: 7
Explosiveness: 8
Marko Arnautovic vs Huddersfield (A)
Marko Arnautovic of West Ham United shoots to score his sides 1st goal in the 10th minute to make it 1-0 past Joe Hart. (photo by John Patrick Fletcher/Action Plus via Getty Images)
I’m anxiously aware that ‘7’ is generous for a man who’s just returned to full fitness, but he looked pretty potent against Burnley’s defence recently, a real poacher who can also bully and run at defences with the ball near his feet. Here’s your frisky differential…
Form: 7
Fixture: 7
Explosiveness: 7
Raheem Agüero vs Man United (H)
Raheem Sterling of Manchester City celebrates his 29th minute goal with Sergio Aguero. (photo by Tim Williams/Action Plus via Getty Images)
If possible, I’d recommend one from this semi-named (please read that carefully) pair of staggeringly fluid forwards, but I can’t even guess Pep’s rotated line-up for the Shakhtar match. Frankly, if you currently own both, you’re doing far too well to take my advice.
Form: 8
Fixture: 6
Explosiveness: 8
Sadio Mané vs Fulham (H)
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 27: Sadio Mane of Liverpool celebrates with teammate Xherdan Shaqiri after scoring his team’s fourth goal vs Cardiff. (Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images)
I could’ve promoted either Callum Wilson or Harry Kane here, both talented and poised with a decent fixture, but it would’ve been disrespectful to Mr Forehead’s goalscoring abilities. If captaining Salah somehow doesn’t appeal, or perhaps you don’t own him these days, Mané’s got you covered. Probably.
Form: 6
Fixture: 9
Explosiveness: 7
Good luck, folks, especially if you risk it with a Saturday captain! Kane’s due….
Thanks for reading Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 12. This article was written by James.
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cheers for this James. Of them i have Haz, Kun and Mane. Really want to swap out Mitro for Arnie but i’m 0.1m short, guess i’ll have to take a hit this week
Excellent stuff, James. Cheers. Makes me worried about not owning Hazard all over again.
Hey new guy! 😉 great read, given the glut of managers who will stump for Salah you make compelling arguments to look elsewhere… still Salah for me though!!
Well my Sterling captain at the weekend was the best choice I’ve made this season. First green arrow in a while too…
1 free transfer.
0.3m in the bank.
Ideally I’d like to get rid of Barkley/Patricio at some point. Not convinced Barkley will play at the weekend.
Any suggestions?
Why not try and get someone from Liverpool? How long have you had Barkley? Maybe give him a chance? Or change for a Pool mid-pricer (Shaquiri?)
Great article James.
Team RMT please.
Who is best to bench?
Coin toss between Jimenez and Richarlison. I’d probably err toward playing the latter but not entirely sure! Everton have looked better lately but do still look to be lacking when they go away to the bigger teams – Arsenal and Man U recently are typical examples of how those games usually pan out for them. But then I can’t really see Wolves faring much better at Arsenal.
Had the same thought init..
Will do wait n see game till deadline then..
If you look at it from the perspective of their opposition:
Chelsea at home (Richarlison): Chelsea have managed only 1 clean sheet in their 6 home games, conceding 7 goals in that time. So just over 1 goal conceded per home game.
Arsenal at home (Jiminez): Arsenal have 2 clean sheets in their 6 home games, conceding 5 goals in that time. So just under 1 goal conceded per home game.
Afternoon all
Any suggestions on what I should do with this lot?
Got 2FT and 1.2 itb
I was set on doing richarlison to siggy this week but wil probably hold on that. Did think of Madison to martial but Madison has good fixture and martial obviously doesn’t.
The only other really unexciting transfer is bennet to dunk as wolves seem to have gone off the rails and Brighton have decent fixtures coming up.
Would hate to lose a transfer
Thoughts anyone?
Cheers
Dunk one seems eminently sensible, albeit boring, as you say. If you’re looking at moving Richarlison on in the future anyway you could always take a cheeky one week punt on Shaq?
Shaq could be a good shout.
Think I’m keeping Richarlison now tbh, but Madision is the one on the hit list however with a decent fixture next up he might survive one more week
If it wasn’t for his upcoming four fixtures, Maddison would already be out of my team. Unless he gets decent returns soon, I imagine nobody will have him after GW15.