Captain Sensible
2 December 2025 455 comments
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Gameweek 13 was one to forget for the 1.1m+ Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers who made Erling Haaland (£14.9m) their Triple Captain. The Norwegian could muster only one shot as he blanked at home for the first time since Gameweek 2.

In the first midweek Gameweek of the season, Manchester City travel to Fulham, a team that Haaland has scored six goals against in as many matches.

As usual in Captain Sensible, we consider whether there is a case to look beyond Haaland this week, especially with Arsenal and Manchester United enjoying appealing fixtures.

First, we will assess the on-site captaincy poll. We will then analyse player and team statistics, Rate My Team (RMT) and the Premier Fantasy Tools ratings to determine the best captain for Gameweek 14 ahead of Tuesday’s 6pm GMT deadline.


Captaincy Poll

best captain 14

Once again, Haaland leads the Fantasy Football Scout captaincy poll, albeit with less support than last week. Just shy of 50% of site users believe the Norwegian, who has scored 14 goals in 13 league starts, is the best option for Gameweek 13.

Bukayo Saka (£10.1m) is the only other player to receive at least 10% of public backing. The England midfielder, who has returned 21 points in the last three Gameweeks, faces Brentford at the Emirates.

Elsewhere, three other players can boast over 5% support: Bruno Fernandes (£8.9m), Antoine Semenyo (£7.8m) and Bryan Mbeumo (£8.6m). Of the three, only the former picked up an attacking return last time out.


Player Stats – Last Six Gameweeks

*Data and prices correct as of 23:59 on December 1

UCL Fantasy Matchday 5: Best Attacking Return Player Percentages 2

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  1. Miguel Sanchez
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Bring in Foden or Mbeumo? Captain Saka or Haaland?

    A) Foden
    B) Mbeumo

    1) Saka (BRE)
    2) Haaland (ful)

    1. aapoman
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Hmm tough one. I like B but since he is going to AFCON it is very close.
      B2 for me

    2. Jet5605
      11 months, 3 days ago

      A2

      1. Sheffield Wednesday
        11 months, 3 days ago

        +1

    3. lilmessipran
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Aw

      1. lilmessipran
        11 months, 3 days ago

        A2*

      2. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        Why the sympathetic noise?

    4. Positive vibes
      11 months, 3 days ago

      A2

  2. Ohh1454
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Sarr to Foden or Bruno ?

    1. aapoman
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Bruno. You want nailed players this busy period and Bruno also has pens

    2. Jet5605
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Bruno

    3. Jinswick
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Bruno

    4. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Bruno is playing SOOOO deep. He doesn't join in any of the attacks.

    5. Positive vibes
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Foden, more exciting

  3. Jet5605
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Think I can scrape together a starting 11 with Gudmundson on the bench.

    A - Pope > Verbruggen
    B - Roll and do Sarr & Mateta > Foden & Thiago in GW15

    Pope
    Timber - Virgil - Andersen
    Semenyo - Enzo - Gakpo - Mbeumo
    Haaland - Mateta - Wolte

    Dubravka - Gudmund - Sarr - Senesi

    1. Jinswick
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      B for me

    2. Positive vibes
      11 months, 3 days ago

      B

  4. Jinswick
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    11 months, 3 days ago

    A) Pope, Senesi & Sarr -> Sanchez, Thiaw & Gakpo
    B) Senesi, Sarr & Semenyo -> Thiaw, Bruno & Minteh

    Pope
    Timber, Richards, Senesi
    Saka, Mbeumo, Semenyo, Sarr
    Haaland, Mateta, Woltemade

    Dubravka, Xhaka, Rodon, Alderete
    Bank 0.8m, 5FT, no chips

    1. Jet5605
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Both great options but I'd go B. Dubravka can cover this week

  5. Kentigern
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Replacement for Senesi?
    A) Thiaw
    B) Milenkovic

    1. Drizzle
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Of those two, A

  6. tbos83
    11 months, 3 days ago

    How's this fh?

    Lammens
    O'Reilly Timber Munoz Thiaw
    Saka Fernandes(c) Gakpo Semenyo
    Mateta Haaland

    1. Boz
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Very similar to non FH teams

  7. Jafooli
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Minteh or Bruno G in for Sarr?

    1. Positive vibes
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Minteh

    2. The Hunt
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      I was between those two and went for Bruno G because I think I read something, somewhere about Minteh getting double marked which could possibly diminish his returns.

    3. Jafooli
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Thanks both...

  8. Essem
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Will there be more rotation this week or is BB an option? Would mean bench boosting Dubravka(CRY) Wolte(TOT) Anthony(CRY) Rodon(CHE)

    1. Sheffield Wednesday
      11 months, 3 days ago

      There's risk of rotation right up to the deadline to use your first BB.

    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      They're playing at home which helps.

      But I doubt your 4th defender is a better bet than Wolt at home to Spurs who are looking all over the place.

      You'd expect Chelsea and Palace to win but it's not a given.

  9. abaalan
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Pope to keep his spot?
    Cunha minutes this week?

    1. Boz
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Who knows

    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      You mean Ramsdale to keep his spot?

      The presser should tell you about Cunha. If it was concussion protocol then he should be fine. What was the issue?

      1. x.jim.x
        11 months, 3 days ago

        Some clown (probably Dalot) clobbered him in training

    3. _Greg
      11 months, 3 days ago

      I would guess Pope doesn't play, Cunha at least on the bench and comes on minimum.

  10. Almathkourq8
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Hello from Kuwait
    Advice on who is to start
    A) E. Anderson
    B) Woltemade

    Captiain !!
    1) Saka
    2) Haaland

    Thank you

    1. Positive vibes
      11 months, 3 days ago

      B2

    2. Boz
      11 months, 3 days ago

      B2

  11. Positive vibes
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Sell Senesi to A or B?
    A. O'Reilly
    B. Lacroix (have Munoz)

    Thanks.

    1. Boz
      11 months, 3 days ago

      A

  12. DagheMunegu
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Bench one

    A Richards
    B Van Hecke
    C Truffert

    1. Positive vibes
      11 months, 3 days ago

      C

    2. Boz
      11 months, 3 days ago

      C

  13. Ha.
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Play

    A. Richards
    B. Thiago

    1. Boz
      11 months, 3 days ago

      A

    2. Positive vibes
      11 months, 3 days ago

      A

  14. Boz
    11 months, 3 days ago

    A) O'Reilly
    B) Timber

    1. Positive vibes
      11 months, 3 days ago

      B

  15. dansmith1985
    11 months, 3 days ago

    A)Kudus to Rice
    B)Kudus to Minteh and Gud to Anderson/Shaw -4

    1. OH... KEVIN DE BRUYNE
      11 months, 3 days ago

      a

  16. BBC_TF
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Benching headache!

    Which player should I play?

    1/ Konsa (brighton),
    2/ Thiago (Arsenal) or
    3/ Rodon (CHELSEA)?

    Or spend a FT to do Longstaff to KDH (bour) ns play him

    1. Conners
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Just play Thiago or Konsa.

    2. ViperStripes
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      efinitely not Rodon

    3. _Greg
      11 months, 3 days ago

      you have to use all your transfers by gw15 or they are wasted. How many you got? Might be better to do multiple changes.

  17. OH... KEVIN DE BRUYNE
    11 months, 3 days ago

    2 best sub 5.0 defenders?
    to replace micky van de ven. already own richards, senesi, timber and reinildo.
    also looking to replace richards

    1. ViperStripes
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Mukiele ticking over nicely for me

      1. Conners
        11 months, 3 days ago

        Some rough fixtures coming up though.

    2. _Greg
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Andersen of Fulham was my first thought.

  18. MrMartini
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Hi all, this week's dilemma... thoughts???

    Raya
    Vdv,vvd, mukiele, cash
    Semenyo, fernandes, saka
    Pedro, haaland, mateta

    Subs
    Dub, potts, caicedo, senesi

    A- caicedo to anderson
    B- pedro - woltemade (rotation fears about pedro)
    C- roll and deal with caicedo and pedro next week for free
    D - both A and B for a -4

    1. OH... KEVIN DE BRUYNE
      11 months, 3 days ago

      c

    2. ViperStripes
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      C

    3. keefy59
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      How about A but to Bruno G & play him instead of VdV
      Bruno G is in TOTS & is at home to Spurs & Burnley in 14 & 15

      1. MrMartini
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        A would be great but forgot to mention only got 1ft and 0.1 itb. Newcastle in my thoughts but can't get to Bruno G this week. Pedro is my nemesis and got on him after his early season purple patch and not had much since, worry about rotation with him now delap and palmer are back in but could easily do things v leeds.

        Tempted by C as gives me more scope if i downgrade pedro ill have more flexibility to sort mid and def out but probably means suffering this GW and chasing as it is at 2.3m

  19. ViperStripes
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Any hits needed? Bench is weak

    Dubravka
    Virgil, Timber, Munoz
    Saka, Semenyo, Xhaka, Yeremy Pino
    Woltemade, Haaland, Thiago
    3.5m itb
    Pope, Mukiele, Rodon, Caicedo

    1. ViperStripes
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Going to FH15 and obviously get 5FT's in GW16

    2. Tonyawesome69
      11 months, 3 days ago

      No

      1. keefy59
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        Is that no don't do it or
        No you won't get 5 free transfers because of playing free hit in 15

        1. Tonyawesome69
          11 months, 3 days ago

          "Any hits needed? "... No

          You will get topped up to 5FTs in 16 regardless of FH15

  20. Jstap94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Best Sarr replacement for two weeks?

    1) Anderson
    2) Minteh
    3) Rice
    4) Bruno G

    1. ViperStripes
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      If only there was an Article that analysed those 4 in deep detail...

      1. x.jim.x
        11 months, 3 days ago

        But what about Bruno?

  21. FantasyFooty01
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Dubravka
    Richards Timber O’Reilly
    Mbeumo Saka Semenyo Miley
    Haaland Pedro Mateta
    Pope Keane Rodon Sarr
    0.0 ITB 0 FT
    Should I take a -4 hit and get Minteh in for Sarr or hold out and hope Miley starts? If I get minteh in I can upgrade semenyo to for cunha and take the -8 hit.

  22. Miguel Sanchez
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Sell any of the below for Chalobah?

    A) Senesi
    B) Burn
    C) Tarkowski
    D) VDV

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      A or C this week.

      Maybe D...

      Play B.

  23. Kuyt Hero
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Can't decide whether to take the hit or not... (and if so for who)?

    A) Just play Rodon
    B) E Anderson -4
    C) O'Reilly -4

    What do we prefer?

    1. _Greg
      11 months, 3 days ago

      C i reckon.

      1. Kuyt Hero
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        Thanks

  24. Weasel51
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Best Senesi replacement for 5.8 or under?

    1. Tonyawesome69
      11 months, 3 days ago

      O’Reilly

  25. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    11 months, 3 days ago

    The FFS team are going to have churn out some articles today, or cut back on a few.

    Scout picks and a timely publication of Zoph's Q&A would be good to read.

    As well as Team News and Predicted Line Ups.

  26. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    11 months, 3 days ago

    1FT and a healthy £3.4m ITB… considering rolling it, unless I decide any of these are worth it:

    A) Gudmundsson to O’Reilly, Milenkovic or other (could go Timber, prefer cheaper)
    B) Longstaff to Anderson (bench Grealish)
    C) Grealish to Anderson, Foden or Rice
    D) other

    Raya (Dubravka)
    Virgil Munoz Burn (Gudmundsson Senesi**)
    Mbeumo Semenyo Grealish Minteh (Longstaff**)
    Haaland Mateta Woltemade

      1. FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        Did you… bookmark this? 😆

        I played FH last week, so selling then wasn’t an option. I’ve since had two red flags crop up in Longstaff and Senesi, which meant that unless I’m happy playing Burn (TOT), I have to make a decision on whether the FT is better used in defence.

        1. Tonyawesome69
          11 months, 3 days ago

          Not difficult to remember the only person still to own Grealish in this forum...

          1. FPL Scoop
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            11 months, 3 days ago

            Touché!

      2. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        He must have done...

        Or he's fished back over hundreds of comments to find the exact one from a week ago, scrolling through a fair few pages.

        1. Tonyawesome69
          11 months, 3 days ago

          Or looked at the first page of his comments in his profile...

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      C/ D ... Would Grealish and £3.4 get you to Bruno?

      If not you could go to Bruno G easily enough.

      Or get Rice.

      Otherwise roll. You'd think that Everton lose again tho.

      1. FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        Cheers!

        Grealish out does indeed get up to Bruno with £1.1m to spare… just don’t feel entirely sold. Will consider. Prefer to Foden?

        1. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          11 months, 3 days ago

          I'm FH'ing into both Bruno's and probably captaining Bruno F.

          Overlooking Foden but it's a one week punt.

          Fulham are better when playing at home, but you'd think that Man City have enough to win there.

          Mind, I've also taken out both Mbeumo and Semenyo so I've got the potential to get it all spectacularly wrong this midweek.

          1. FPL Scoop
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            11 months, 3 days ago

            Best of luck!

    2. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      You get paid a fortune to tell us what to do in FPL, m8.

      1. FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        A… fortune?

        Was also just sharing my thoughts! Good day to ya, m8.

  27. Tuesday's Press Conference Times
    Mince n Tatties
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Today's media conference schedule

    0900 - Brighton/Fabien Hurzeler
    0900 - Liverpool/Arne Slot
    0930 - Arsenal/Mikel Arteta
    1030 - Chelsea/Enzo Maresca
    1300 - Wolves/Rob Edwards
    1330 - Villa/Unai Emery
    1330 - Brentford/Keith Andrews
    1330 - Palace/Oliver Glasner
    1330 - Leeds/Daniel Farke
    1330 - Sunderland/Regis Le Bris
    1330 - West Ham/Nuno Espirito Santo
    1400 - Burnley/Scott Parker

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      What time are the mince 'n tatties served?

      1. Mince n Tatties
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        When the Street Lights come on

    2. mookie
      11 months, 3 days ago

      No United presser today. 🙁

      1. Mince n Tatties
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        Guessing tomorrow fella

        1. Colm Hayes
          11 months, 3 days ago

          ty for these

          yeah tomorrow, Amorim scheduled for 13:30 on Weds

    3. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      11 months, 3 days ago

      Absolute disgrace. 😡

      1. Mince n Tatties
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        11 months, 3 days ago

        `Stop acting like an FPL Virgin - Snooze ya Lose

        1. FPL Virgin
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          11 months, 3 days ago

          I will get this un-hulked. You are not allowed to have an adult username that alludes to mince and breasts.

          1. Mince n Tatties
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            11 months, 3 days ago

            Small Child - if you look at the hot topic section - it clearly states "Started by Mince n Tatties"

            Now be gone.

  28. Athletic Nasherbo
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Wildcarding next week, 95% sure. Or it will be the gameweek after. Either way, 1FT 0ITB - what shall I do? Happy to take a punt.

    Donnarumma
    Timber Cucurella Munoz
    Gakpo Cunha* Semenyo Minteh
    Haaland Mateta(C) Bowen

    Valdimarsson Rutter Rodon Acheampong

  29. ShaunGoater123
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Thinking of bringing in hincapie for semedo as feel like I need a piece or arsenal defence going forward. Cant afford timber / Calafiori, thoughts?

    Current team

    Petrovic
    Munoz / VVD / o’Reilly
    Saka / Bruno / mbuemo / minteh
    Haaland / Thiago / Mateta

    Dubravka / KDH / senesi / gudmundsson

    1FT, 0.9 ITB

  30. George James
    11 months, 3 days ago

    Best option?

    A) Mbeumo / Dubravka

    B) Gakpo / Dubravka

    C) Gakpo / Raya -4

    D) Bruno / Verbruggen -4.