Captain Sensible – The pros and cons of various Gameweek 21 options

Three down, one to go.

The last of four Gameweek deadlines in the space of 11 days passes this morning at 11:30 GMT, with Fantasy managers subsequently having some well-earned respite as the FA Cup third round takes centre stage at the weekend.

Who to captain in Gameweek 21 may still be dominating FPL bosses’ thoughts, however.

With that in mind, we’ve gone over those performing well in our still-live captain poll before carrying out a comparison between the individuals themselves, their teams and their opponents in order to pinpoint the best candidate.

Captain Poll

There’s no runaway leader in our poll this week, with Eden Hazard (£11.1m) pipping Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.4m) into second place.

The Belgian, who bagged a 14-point haul when Chelsea last met Southampton in Gameweek 8, has accumulated 27.1% of the vote, with Aubameyang sitting on 25.3%.

Arsenal’s Gabonese striker also has previous with Gameweek 21’s opponents, having recorded his second-biggest Fantasy Premier League return of the season with a 15-point haul against Fulham back in early October – despite only emerging as a 62nd-minute substitute.

A third premium option with a fairly appealing fixture against a side battling relegation is Harry Kane (£12.5m), who has attacking returns in each of his last nine Premier League starts.

Kane sits third in our poll with 18.8% of the vote.

The in-form Fantasy option of the short term is Paul Pogba (£8.3m), who has accrued a phenomenal 46 points in the space of just three Gameweeks.

Pogba has garnered 9.4% of all votes cast ahead of Manchester United’s trip to Tyneside, something that would have been unthinkable not even a fortnight ago.

There’s a sharp drop-off to the rest of the leading captaincy candidates, with Richarlison (£7.0m), Mohamed Salah (£13.3m), Son Heung-min (£8.8m) and Alexandre Lacazette (£9.4m) the only other FPL assets to have attracted more than 1% of the vote.

Everton pair Gylfi Sigurdsson (£7.3m) and Lucas Digne (£5.2m) complete the top ten with 0.9% of the vote each, at the time of writing.

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