Captains

Captain Sensible – Salah and Kane battle for the Gameweek 19 armband

The Boxing Day-orientated Gameweek 19 looks to be taking Fantasy managers back in time, with the captain battle appearing to be between two of last season’s usual suspects.

We’ve gone over those doing well in the poll before doing a comparison between the individuals themselves, their teams and their opponents in order to find the best candidate.

Captain Poll

The Gameweek 19 captain poll indicates that this week the most popular skipper will be either Harry Kane (£12.5m) or Mohamed Salah (£13.2m), much like it was for so much of last season.

The Tottenham Hotspur forward led the poll with a tally of 38% just over 24-hours ago but that has since been cut back. He now claims just 30.9% of the vote, sneaking out Salah who sits on 28.7%.

Way off in third place is Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (5.0%) while Kane’s Spurs colleague Son Heung-min (£8.5m) has just 3.4% backing.

Eden Hazard (3.4%), Marcus Rashford (2.9%) and Anthony Martial (2.6%) are the other contenders in this bracket of support.

Not a single Manchester City player has more than 3% backing in the poll, with Raheem Sterling (£11.5m) languishing far down the list on 2.4%.

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3,946 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Aubamewho
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Odds % for Salah and Kane to start ?

    1. yakirh
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      99%

    2. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Almost 100.

  2. Takedog1
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    delph to shaw for free?

    have ederson

    1. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      yes.

  3. Game&Watch
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Salah or Kane for cap?

    1. drughi
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      hurry up and decide

    2. Pariße
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Kane

      1. Game&Watch
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Oooff, went Salah, regretting it already

  4. The Head-Ake
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Sane to Son for -8?

    1. Takedog1
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      LOL

    2. YEAH PITCH!
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Go.

    3. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      No way

    4. Pariße
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      No

    5. Taking the Mkhitaryan
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Yes incredible move guaranteed to cost you

    6. The Head-Ake
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      It's Martial's fault

    7. COLLIN QUANER
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Are you tripping?

  5. YEAH PITCH!
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Good luck all. Let's see how many benched players land up coming on. Lol.

  6. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    GOOD LUCK ALL, ESPECIALLY YOU KANE CAPPERS

    1. WVA
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      You think he will definitely start?

      1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        YES

  7. GREEN IS GOOD
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Gibbs White starts. Neves benched

  8. Bring the Cavalry
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    A) Sterling and Chica > Salah and Kamara -4

    B) Chica > Ings

    1. The Head-Ake
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      B

  9. Viper
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Is Bednarek just playing because of injury or has he claimed the spot?

    1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Injury to Stephens

  10. WVA
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    I really think I should captain Salah but I'm not changing from Kane after having it on him for so long!

    1. Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Make the change

      1. WVA
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Why?

    2. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      You're crazy.

  11. RamboKKK
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Final decision have been made on WC

    Patricio (Hart)
    Trippier, Kolasinac, Shaw, van Dijk (Bednarek)
    Hazard, Son, Martial, F Anderson (Deulofeu)
    Kane, Rashford (Kamara)

    Patricio in this week, to cover Doherty's possible clean sheet. I'm chasing a bit, so I made choice to select Kolasinac (before Doherty) and Patricio. Trippier, Shaw, van Dijk all differentials in our mini league.

    I still believe FAnderson more than Richarlison/Sigurdsson duo, let's see how it goes. Deulofeu to cover next two weeks.

    No City or Liverpool is scary, but I'm just hoping little bit rotation (Salah mainly) and Leicester to keep it quite tight this week, even I think City will win.

    The biggest problem was to choose 2 Man Utd players from Rashford, Martial, Pogba, Lingard.

  12. Ady87
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Martial or Kane captain??

    1. Viper
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Kane. Easy.

    2. BbBb
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Kane

    3. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Ha.

  13. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    QUICK PLS

    Hazard -> Camarasa?

    1. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      umm

    2. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Lol

    3. BERGKOP
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Erhhh no

  14. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Scenes when deadline comes and Wolves lineup is revealed as

    Ruddy
    Dendoncker Coady Boly
    Jonny Neves Saiss Vinagre
    Gibbs-White
    Cavaliero Bonatini

    1. MTPockets
        5 years, 4 months ago

        GW in for Neves apparently

      • Pariße
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        He's been playing with the same team the whole season...

        They're all due a rest.

    2. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Again
      Play TAA or Luiz

      1. BbBb
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Luiz

    3. Bubz
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Start Soherty or Digne?

      1. Differentiator
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Soherty

        1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Its pronounced Sock-erty

      2. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Soherty

      3. BbBb
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Doherty

    4. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      When in doubt.

      Harry Kane.

      Will cry if don’t win MOTM.

      1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        This

    5. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      OMG that tweet

      1. Fitzy.
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Jafooli fan?

      2. Patch
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Kaptain Kane!!!!!?????!!!

    6. Jekori
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      All this bench-wankery. Just let my whole bench come on, bring it on boxing day

    7. Saka Punch
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Sane - Son for free?

    8. FER FUSCH AKE
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      OMG!!! you guys need to login to Twitter asap

      1. IRBOX ⚽
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        These posts are so shite

        1. Celt Abroad
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Agree - it’s like really boring clickbait.

          1. Celt Abroad
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            5 years, 4 months ago

            Wow! This local mom saved £10k a year by captaining Sané!

      2. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Not been on Twitter for six years.

      3. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        What? What is it? OMG what has happened? Oh hang on I think you got me there, too clever for me

    9. ILOVEBAPS
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Fraser or AWB first on bench?

      1. dunas_dog
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        AWB

    10. JoeJitzu +42
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Play

      Kolasinac or
      Doherty

      1. dunas_dog
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Doherty

        1. JoeJitzu +42
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Cheers

      2. No Kane No Gain
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Play both!

    11. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Omg, what have I done. Loooool

      1. toerag
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        i hear ya bro

    12. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Start AWB & Doc over TAA?

    13. toerag
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Kane (c) for 1st time this season, fingers crossed

    14. No Kane No Gain
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Safe to he sure martial is out? Bought him a few days ago!

      1. LǝgleSs e|even
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Yea, at this stage of the game, with many blanks already faced. I wanted assurance thus Poh

        1. LǝgleSs e|even
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Pog

    15. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Wow. That radio transmission really shakes things up!

      1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        *fax invoice

    16. Klein
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Pens down boys and girls

    17. dezille
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      awb or digne first sub?