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. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Updated

    1. piquiblanco
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Adorable

    2. Fitzy.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      10 minutes ago

      1. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        AOL broadband

    3. BIGREDDOG
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Dial up

  2. COLLIN QUANER
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    First

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Sorry

    2. Fitzy.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      *Fail

    3. JustPark
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      This is awkward.

  3. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Oh this is Christmas.

    Head out the sick bowl.

    Schindler first sub.

  4. Totti
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    any news on martial ?

    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Need to wait till line-ups at 2pm

    2. Pacer.
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      French
      Had a red Christmas hat at dinner
      Likes Michael McIntyre
      Toilet roll dispenses from front preference
      Signed up for pre-order of new jive bunny album

  5. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Cup opponents back three: Kelly, Connolly and Evans. Can’t be blamed for being template.

    1. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Roll on next season.

  6. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    6 - Wolves have won six of their last eight league games against Fulham (D1 L1), scoring three or more goals on five occasions. Hungry

    As per Optajoe

    1. Pacer.
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Using FFScoutcast logic Fulham will be angry and desperate to put that right

  7. HurriKane
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Ho Ho Ho Mo Salah will BLO away the non BelieVors 😀

    1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      From the bench?

      1. Bees4Lyf
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        I hope there’s glue on the bench

      2. HurriKane
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        WHy get rested when you had 5 days rest ?

        Nice logic

    2. JustPark
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      I don't think he does Christmas.

  8. Ask Yourself
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hope all these players aren’t out next week too my bench looks terrible

    1. Tsparkes10
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      I wanted to bench 0 this week... want to bench 6 next gw 🙂

  9. Tsparkes10
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    I always feel confident until I see my ML rivals starting XI. Long day ahead 🙂

    1. BIGREDDOG
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      All 3 of my rivals got Martial in 😀 one for a hit, one for Salah lmao

      1. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        The latter one is just silly

    2. Ask Yourself
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      The trick is to not have any rivals

      1. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        We're all rivals G

      2. Tsparkes10
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        Well i am 60 points clear of second but they are closest to me 😉

  10. Halmari Tea
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    My FPL cup opponent has played triple captain against me - and its not even a dead team - 300k Rank
    Wtfff any place to abuse him -.-

    1. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      focusing on mickey mouse cup

    2. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      I went out to triple captain Auba last week. You need extreme luck to dodge all these people and win. Just be happy it happens sooner rather than later.

  11. Public user
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Fml , missed deadline . Capt on Sané vc on Salah

    1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Could be genius

  12. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    That fresh feeling of 2 FTs 🙂

    1. Bees4Lyf
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Let me guess you captained Kane

      1. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        Yes, now starting to panic given rumours of resting

    2. BIGREDDOG
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      This

    3. shirtless
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Wildcard time!

      1. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        Give us a week lol

        1. shirtless
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 3 months ago

          First one!

    4. Tsparkes10
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Same... gonna need them looking at my team for next gw

    5. Champ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      I know. It’s like giving two fingers to rivals too.

      1. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        Haha

  13. Champ
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Based on the inverse momentum laws of expectation in the cosmos, a little ticket has fallen out of the big supercomputer in my shed.

    It says this “salah blank sterling haul”

  14. New Article
  15. Klein
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Mini league rival has mitro(TC). Oh boy!!

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Well done in advance to your rival

  16. grumpyman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Damn, Kane EO over 100%. Wish I'd captained him now, hate owning an expensive player who actually hurts my rank when he scores. Bah humbug!

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      He is going to blank/not start so don't worry (not trying to jinx my statement at all)

      1. grumpyman
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        Double bluff?

        Rotation is going to carnage today, good day to be a lucky FPL manager.

  17. james 101
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    That moment when you realise 3 of your starting 11 are wolves players.

  18. Boo Ya Ka Sha
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Mark went for Shaw, Pogba, and Ings. Never would've guessed that.

    1. Leaf
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      All solid picks

  19. Pieterke30
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Digne on my bench... 🙁

    Decided to play Doherty ahead of him.

    1. SADIO SANÉ
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      I believe the 'Baines rule' applies here