Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 2
Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 2
But first, a look at what you could have won – 26 ponts from *checks notes* Erling Haaland won the day last week with Kop taking the spoils – hardly getting a knighthood for that but fair play to him.
OddDane was next best with Bukayo Saka bringing home 20 points on Saturday.
Rosco ……. well Rosco tried with Rashford. *ruffles hair* the little Geordie scamp….
This week, we have just the two for you – and you’ll soon see why.
I have the pleasure to introduce to you the first in a semi-regular “Haaland versus …” series …
Take it away OddDane.
It´s time to pick a captain again and we´re here to “help” again!
Why the quotation marks? Well, we like to play this game of two falsies and one right. You know, just to see if someone takes the bait! (*cough* MattX *cough cough*). Remember? Last round we had the likes of Rashford, Saka and… well, the right one.
We´ve leveled the playing field a bit this time, though. This time we play flip the coin! Of course, our coin only has heads, or was it tails? Well, it has the right one I´m sure!
It´s Haaland versus Salah time y´all!
Let´s start off with some hardcore stats:
No. of Names? Erling 0 – 1 Salah (Yeah that´s right, look it up)
No. of Community shield wins? Braut 0 – 2 Salah
No. of Games played for Liverpool FC? Haaland 0 – A lot! Salah
So there´s a clear favorite and an obvious choice here, it´s Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly! (Let´s face it, you weren´t going to look it up were you…)
But sure, yes, we get it. You´re not won over just by stats, you want to be really convinced – and who could blame you, we fooled you once already!
Well, MattX, just MattX really. Still though, let´s dig in.
Mohamed Salah
(Photo by Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
Our favorite pick for captain is playing at home this saturday against Bournemouth. You know, the team who lost by nine goals, NINE WHOLE GOALS to Liverpool last season. Okay, bad example considering he didn´t score then (and we don´t talk about the other game… In fact… Let´s say they only played once last season).
Surely this time…
Anyway, it is also a team who will concede in most games as evidenced by their CS% of ca. 20% last season which saw them achieve a measly 8 CS from 38 games. This season there´s even likely to be a tad more fun time, I mean game time, for Liverpool. In other words, if Bournemouth comes out of this unscathed poor Klopp will have to start looking for attackers too!
Salah has been in good form too. He had a cracking pre-season, he got an assist in his first game and could´ve even had a goal too were it not for a relatively marginal offside call. One could even wager a bet that he will have channeled his frustations from an early substitution (at the 77´ mark) into tearing poor Bournemouth a new one in the next game. He did not look pleased, that´s for damn sure. Stats-wise he registered 0.94xG+A per 90 minutes against Chelsea (fbref.com).
But you don´t care about stats…
Right?
Erling Haaland
Now that we´ve got you reading this far, we can safely say this is probably going to be the popular pick. Why?
Well, first off not many own Salah whereas you all have this bloke.
Secondly, well he scores a lot of goals. 38 goals in 36 games, and that´s just the premier league folks.
Thirdly, … oh why bother, you´re all going to pick him anyway.
Rosco will disagree (so we left him out of this round), but his dear magpies won´t be keeping Haaland at bay.
To be fair they concede on average about a goal per game and achieved a CS% of 37%, so it could just be the one goal this time.
It could (should?) also be more though.
Final notes. If you insist on letting people ahead of you in queues then here´s some other picks that the bookies seem to favor for anytime goalscorers (assuming everybody starts, roughly in order of most likely):
Dawin Nunez, Mitrovic, Watkins, Alvarez, Jackson, Son, Jota, Diaz… The list of good (anti) fpl picks goes on, wheras we´ve long overstepped the allowed characters for this article.
Have fun!
The confessional…
This is where we ask our entire writing team to tell us who they think they will pick this week…. There are more caveats and get out clauses than a meeting with Daniel Levy but this is their initial gut feeling based upon who they actually own. And they promise that their picks will be allowed to leave for free if a better offer comes along…
DMC — Haaland/Salah
The Gallant Pioneer — Haaland/Salah
Jamesimmo — Haaland/Salah
Ivan — Haaland/Salah
Swirly — Haaland/Salah
Matt — Haaland/Salah
Loud Atlas — Haaland/Salah
Smash — Haaland/Salah
Kop — Haaland/Salah
Rosco — Haaland/Salah
Elleffcee — Haaland/Salah
Floydeth — Haaland/Salah
Init — Haaland/Salah
Gear — Haaland/Salah
Stone Frog — Haaland/Salah
OddDane — Haaland/Salah
Jamie Mc — Haaland/Salah
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Thanks for reading Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 2. This article was writen by OddDane
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Well it sounds like he’s picked up another injury. So…… who’s the best replacement for Stone? I suppose I would have 5.4 to spend.
And looks like Reece James injured too perhaps bit long term.. almost not surprising anymore
Lots of unconfirmed stories are circulating around that Stones has picked up another injury and will be out. I am still going to save the FT as Estu will be coming in.
The question is, do I play Mitoma and who should I drop if that’s the case?
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Logically it would be Pedro as same team, but mitoma slightly more assured of starts (supposedly)
I wouldn’t double up on Brighton against wolves though, who held their own against ManU, for the sake of anyone else in that front 8
You are right Kev, the wolves seems to be a tough defence to penetrate. I am not worried about Pedro as he is a sure starter and penalties taker. Maybe will leave it as this.
I’m sure I’ll regret not having Salah in the team but sticking with Haaland as Captain. Too much messing about to bring Salah in for one match. And Liverpool have a tough enough set of fixtures after this week.
Hey everyone – seems like Frankie Sinatra’s voice is already ringing through my mind (‘Regrets, I’ve had a few…’), and starting to feel like the Ancient Mariner with the albatross I’ve just killed draped around my neck as a sign of my regretful act! What am I referring to???
AJW
Well, I saw last night that I had to trade out Mings before he dropped in price, so I traded him to ….Reece James! This morning’s red flag + 25% chance of playing sent me into a mental spiral!!! How f*****g dumb!!!
Anyway, I suppose the best advice is to hold tight, suck up my shame and just continue, and wait and see how it goes for GW3? Unless of course James looks like dropping in price at any stage!
Let this be a (yet another) lesson to you all! Don’t go too early, but also don’t take your eyes off the ball! Guess I’m gonna have to play Saliba, Chillwell & Estupinan in the backline – oh well, I could do a lot worse!
Bye for now,