Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 6
Welcome to Captain Picks Gameweek 6! Man City versus Cardiff; Liverpool at home to Southampton. I couldn’t believe my luck. The captain’s article would write itself. I’d barely need to pick up my pen. All I’d need to do was follow the basic rules of journalism: make it early. Make it short. And if you have to, make it up.
However, when I rashly accepted the lucrative offer of writing articles for the site, I didn’t know I would be stepping into a wilderness of mirrors.
European football is now with us. Rotation is certain to feature. Injuries will happen. So I came to realise that being offered week 6 was a test of my prophetic powers. Pass it and the gates open to further riches and prestige. Completely bodge it and the gates will be closed, for ever, to the sound of mocking laughter.
So here we go…
2 attackers
The two K’s feature here, Kun and Kane. GW6 sees the start of a great run of fixtures for Kane. If I owned him, as over 25% of managers still do, I’d be very tempted. He seems immune to rotation and this could be a tough week, rotation-wise. You could counter that the crack Liverpool defence kept him at arm’s length, but there’s no shame in that. However Spurs need to get back to winning habits pronto. Brighton may not be pushovers but Spurs should be able to prevail and you’d fancy Kane to get one or two good chances at least.
There’s nothing I can say about Kun that hasn’t already been said. He must be the most captained player in the history of the game. The goals and assists are flowing like the Salado River. Unfortunately, though, he has started all games so far and if that doesn’t give you the willies, I don’t know what will. So I’ve a relatively modest proposal. Just do anything in your power to infiltrate the Man City press conference later this week: impersonate the popular Jamie Jackson, or disguise yourself as a microphone. Just get in there, whatever it takes in bribes or sexual favours, or both, and ask Pep a direct question, in Catalan, about whether Kun will start. Watch him closely for any rapid eye blinks, nose scratchings, and get the (spurious) gen tweeted out doublequick before you’re slung out on your arse.
In the unlikely event that you own both Kun and Kane, and don’t own Salah or Hazard, work out who you think who would dance the Crab better – and put the armband on the other one.
Off in outlier territory you could think of Vardy, or Aubameyang.
Outer Limit choice: Mitrovic.
2 midfielders
Salah shines like a comet in the darkness of our sombre skies – but there may be cloud cover. You know the risks / attractions of Salah this week. If he plays then you’ll be fine, especially with so many ditching him with the wildcard – and presumably this week we’ll see heavy migration from him to Hazard. Salah has had an insane number of goal attempts, which come at great frequency, and which I’m sure he’ll have plenty of against Southampton. If he starts, and he may well, then he is a very strong candidate for the armband. However…
Hazard is drifting along in a nice understated way, his goals and assists so far completely blowing Salah away. And a lovely tie ahead. He’s on penalties and is tucking them away. The pluses keep building. Chelsea have undemanding European fixtures that may not require heavy first team participation. Hazard will be a very popular choice this week. This may, or may not, play into the hands of Salah owners.
Outliers: Eriksen, Sterling.
Outer Limit: Maddison.
1 defender
GW5 was salutary in that it taught us the wisdom of not captaining a defender. Robertson’s clean sheet vanished in stoppage time. Alonso’s lost his to a hopeful punt and chase. Neither obliged us with an assist. Mendy couldn’t be bothered to turn up, so easy was the fixture.
But I know the argument(s) – Alonso and Mendy aren’t really defenders, they’re wingers. Alonso isn’t shy of going for goal, Mendy is great for assists. But for me Alonso’s goal threat makes him the number 1 choice – if I were rash enough to captain a defender.
Outlier for hardcore defender captain fanatics: Mendy
Outer Limit selection for complete lunatics: why not superdude Wan-Bissaka?
All the best with whoever you choose this week. The captain article always arrives early and most of the recommendations above may be injured by the time GW6 is with us.
But if all works out and players come through unscathed, listen carefully to Klopp and Pep at their press conferences. But I’d pay closer attention to the non-verbal communication. The light glancing off Pep’s pate when a certain word is spoken, or dazzling us from a smile held a second too long by Klopp. If you bump into the latter at your local Lidl, work out if that tune he’s humming is a golden oldie by Shakatak.
Shaq… Shaq… now there’s a differential captain choice.
Thanks for reading Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 6. This article was written by Kralin.
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So here’s the dilemma in full. Im not even sure if I have the desired formation. What would the FF247 Gurus do ?
WanB in deeeeefence & MAD 3rd sub.
Huddersfield are bleeding goals hence MAD inclusion , but thanks for comment and might still change it
I’m guessing this is a wildcard side?
My advice would be to downgrade someone in your midfield or attack or you run the risk of benching the wrong player each week, ie this week surely you can’t bench Mitro!?
Mitro on Maddison off. Thanks for comment
Good team but selection headaches a plenty i feel. Defence I would keep the same and let Wan come in for Mendy if he’s not fit. Only change I would make is to play Mitrovic over one of the mids, probably Fraser or Richarlison maybe.
Fabianski though? Have you seen West Hams upcoming fixtures?
Yip but Fosters fixtures will do just fine I feel. Thanks for comment
Looking at your GW5 team it looks like this is a WC team. Downgrade Maddison to Hojbjerg, stick him on the bench and play Mitro instead. WanB first sub, then Holebas then Hojbjerg. Upgrade Fabianski (awful fixtures) to Ederson with the money saved from the Maddison downgrade. You’ll still have a decent wedge to use next week when the WC turns out not to be perfect.
Thanks for commenting. I had Hoj and opted for Mad . Im kinda against doubling up in defence and while Fabs fixtures are poor Fosters ar not bad
I’ve got nearly the same team as you except for Ederson (set and leave) Moura for Rich and Ings for Zaha. Did the WC last GW and got 89 points. I hope to have enough good players to cover injury and rotation with Mendy & Kun flagged at the moment. If they are both fit I will probably bench Holebas as he plays away and Fraser as he plays away also and gets most of his points at home.
It may all change after the games today and tomorrow,but I hope to hold the transfer over to next week,and see if Son takes Moura’s place,and if he does get Rich in.
It’s a decent squad. But that’s the thing with these teams without Salah too much money on the bench you will have a headache each week
I agree Smash , but its not the worst problem to have .
Yogic it could be a problem if a big gun starts firing. Better to have the cash than have to do multiple transfers to free it up. I see a lot of people have said the same thing, ie downgrade a mid and get Mitrovic off the bench. If you do that you don’t have benching headaches and you have a pot of cash ready to use when Kane or Salah decide they want the golden boot.
Looks like Mendy might be out so he will be benched. Wan-B has got 4 good games followed by 4 tough ones,so he will be benched for those. I will bench those players who have the tough games as much as I can but will get caught sometimes when teams play each other.
Just trying something different this year as I went the usual way of deadbeats on the bench to free up cash to get the big hitters. But the last minute injuries like Mendy this week left me short of playing options. I know there is Bennett and Wan ,Stephens etc but 1 is enough as this time I want players with the potential to score good points when they go on instead of the usual 2.
@YOGIC GUNNERS
I think i can safely say that 80% of the people playing FPL would swap there current team for yours, and they will take the problem of who start and who to captain with it.
I would start WanB over Maddison and Holebas over Richarlision.
I am currently leaning to Hazard as captain.
Nah, Richi is rested and Goners defence is often awol. WanB yes, he’s on fire & ‘only’ a Palace defender. I got his 9 pts off the bench last week, he’ll only get better imo.
@secretzorro
I think Richi has the possibility of getting some points at Arsenal but I feel Holebas at fullham has more point potential.
Holebas is third in the defender ranking whilst playing for a “small” team. Even more remarkable is that Watford has only kept 1 clean sheet so far, which means most of his points came from assists and goals.
Everton’s record away agains Arsenal is shocking
In 2010 they Everton scored 2 goals away at Arsenal
since then it has been either 1 or no goals.
The only problem Holebas has is his love of yellow cards but then again Richarlision likes cards too
Might need to amendy
Anyone know why mendy still not playing?
Hi all. Would appreciate some thoughts on my team. Salah blanking and Hazard in most other teams caused red arrows for the first time last week. Although not totally concerned, the team needs tweeking. I am hoping to hold my WC until the GW8 int’l break. 1 FT and 0.9 ITB so I can do one of two options:
Mane -> Hazard but then I need 0.1M from somewhere; or
Pedro -> Hazard and Mane -> Richarlison
The bench is doing nothing for me and can be fixed on the WC
Would appreciate everyone’s thoughts and any other suggestions will be greatly welcome. Thanks
@Choking Hazard
Salah out and Hazard in is a possibility. You would still have Mane as liverpool cover and some cash in the bank to spend somewhere else.
Don’t know why you are concerned about getting Hazard in this GW. LFC lay Soton and the mids could haul. Roll FT or use it for Arnie if he is not fit.
LRL – I think everyone who didn’t have Haz last week is concerned, myself included. Knee-jerk? Maybe…but Haz looks set to roll for the remainder of the season and 13 mil tied up in Salah is a lot.
You took the words from my keyboard lol. Salah has the potent potential to punish and still with approx 50% ownership, I would rather he be in that out, but with Salah out (leaving Mane), the team overall would be more balanced and could allow for Kane to come in. Haz is already 0.1M up in price and due to increase again. I will wait for the manager press conferences and pray that prices down fluctuate too much in the next few days, or dare I say it, Haz picks up a knock tonight to make our decisions just that little bit easier
CH – unfortunately Chelsea don’t play till tomorrow night! Which has me sitting on my hands trying not to push the transfer button now!
According to the Daily Star, Hazard has not travelled to Salonika!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/730766/Chelsea-team-news-Eden-Hazard-OUT-Europa-League-Maurizio-Sarri-PAOK-Salonika
1FT, 1.7itb.
Think I’ll save it and make 2 next week (Firmino out Kane/Lukaku/somome else in, possibly funded by Salah out as well)
Any better ideas out there?
@EBC
I am not sure if going without any of Salah, Mane or Firmino is the way forward.
I would advise to have at least 1 of them in your team on current form Mane seems the most likely candidate to keep.
I’m thinking both out for 2/3/4 GWs while fixtures are bad then revisiting with maybe only 1 of Mane/Salah/Firmino coming back in
Firmino seems to have found his shooting boots as of late so I would suggest keeping him for now. Roll the FT and see what happens with the other strikers but your front line seems good, If Salah continues to blank then roll him out to upgrade your midfield. I personally could not be satisfied only fielding two midfielders.
Cheers – the plan has been Ralls out for about 4 weeks but something else keeps trumping that move.
It might be Mendy we all have to transfer this week, we have to wait for his news first I guess.
Great article kralin. I’m torn between kun and Salah. Salah is surely due a haul and kun is up against Cardiff who look bobbins.
Cheers Cimon. Salah for me, just, but will be furiously overthinking it over the next few days.
My nerves were partly soothed by Kun starting on the bench tonight.