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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Wanted to keep Trossard another week but he’s about to drop so getting rid. Think I’m just gonna do straight swap to Martinelli as I want 2 arsenal attackers but this would mean a -4pt hit next week to do Pedro to Jackson/Gvardiol to Beyer. Alternatively I could do Trossard to Mbeumo, then Pedro to Jackson next week without having to downgrade Gvardiol or taking a hit ….but then have benching headaches….whaddya reckon?
Martinelli is 8.0 and Trossard is 7.0 if I remember correctly, so other than them being in the same team it doesn’t feel as a straight swap as such.
But yes, decent move if you don’t want to be priced out and have the funds to burn
I also had Trossard – dropped him for Dias. I didn’t have any Liverpool coverage, and this solved two problems for me without having the means (nor the inclination) to go all the way for Salah.
Hey Guy …I was considering getting Jota for Trossard for a 1 week punt, but am leaning away from that atm as he does have a rotation risk and would probably end up costing a hit to swap to Martinelli later.
Speaking of Trossard he just scored 2 goals against Luton in a behind closed doors match…wish I could keep him for another week at least tbh but if he goes down I’m stuck with him :/
1. Shaw to James, but then I have a double up on Chelsea defense?
2. Roll transfer
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Chelseas next 7 look good on paper, James and Chilwell also offer attacking returns so no reason you should. The blow of a single goal is annoying. Bit still not the worst if either assist or score.
That been said Shaw can also do above and is a bit of a BP magnet.
Lastly I’d watch Ramsdale over the next few games. Raya wasn’t signed to sit on the bench
Agree, so might be wise to roll the transfer incase I need a new keeper.
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Reece James and John Stones apparently injured now
The main site shows both as fit to play. Where are you seeing this?
Stones…..
Well shit! Didn’t want to use my FT but looks like I will.
Bernado Silva replacement (might be out this weekend apparently)?
Got Saka, Odegaard, Rashford, Richarlison.
Cheers!
Got 8.0 available in funds.
Martinelli, Diaby, Eze, mBOOMi, Maddison, etc etc.? Many good ones to enjoy
Maddison for me. Future fixtures are too good to miss
Good enough to roll so I have 2FT next week to give me more choices as some of the fixtures are better from GW3.
As for captain – not sure as to whether its Salah or Haaland!!
Hi HF,
You must captain Salah at home to Bournemouth (I certainly would if I had him).
I think your team us fine to let your transfer roll onto next game week.
Painful Friday night for you rooting for Notts Forest 0 Sheffield United 0.
Jamie
Don’t think that it overly matters but I would change the Vice to Haaland.
Jamie
Salah captain
Would it be foolish to play Turner (home to Sheffield United) over Onana (away to Tottenham), I have Maddison.
Thanks
Jamie
That’s what I am doing. Don’t see spurs not scoring. I am Playing turner over onana
Thanks Regs.
I am hoping Tottenham to score rather than expecting.
So hate when attackers play defenders.
Jamie
Onana for me. Don’t see either keeping a CS, Onana might get a fee save points