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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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2,439 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Patch
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Everton 2 Goals (Richarlison Goal and Assist - Digne can go to hell).

    Leicester 1 Goal by Ndidi.

    Nuff Said

    1. Fantasy Gold
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I like this.

    2. yakirh
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Ok noted

    3. korbendallas82
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Siggy.

  2. Atimis
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Last minute C from Hazard to Auba, hope it pays off !

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

      Nice good luck. I think he will score big

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

      Last minute cap switches rarely pay off

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

        Bit of a nothing statement there lmao

    3. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      The stats point the other way. Auba could still haul though.

      1. AuFeld
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        The stats aren't painting the whole picture. Morata will hinder Hazard's performance and FUL are without Mawson and Chambers, their two main cb's responsible for their defensive improvement.

        1. The Big Fella
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          This^ both reasons for me going Auba over Hazard. Kane was second choice.

        2. My Name Is Pepu
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Wasn't Mawson dropped earlier in the season for some terrible performances? That's before Ranieri arrived though.

        3. FPL Virgin
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          The system has been getting defensive results. The change in personnel might not make that much difference.

          1. The Big Fella
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            You're saying that to be controversial for the sake of it. Any team suffers when its first choice defenders out

    4. Camino Aleatorio
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Auba could have scored 5 on Fulham today - if Auba and Lacca had a top-5 level midfield, they would score 50 together

  3. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Was the members area coded on a Commodore 64?

    1. AuFeld
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      No, they upgraded to a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

    2. The 12th Man
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Can’t beat those tape decks!

      Will it get past 76 on the counter before crashing?

  4. Jealous Viper
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Let's go MBE!!!

  5. hannibalos
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Oh boy. I missed FPL. I haven't played since 2018.! 😀

    Happy new year. Health and happiness to all 🙂

  6. Arteta
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

    1. My Name Is Pepu
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      You too. Set up some easy tap-ins for Auba please, if you both start together.

  7. Make United Great Again
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Happy New Year.

    Can’t wait for Digne to slap one top bins from a FK

    1. Drip Doctor
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      2 points.

  8. korbendallas82
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Kane. (C)

    1. fr3d
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Surely can’t blank against Cardiff?

      1. Zladan
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Surely can’t blank against Cardiff again.

      2. Danno - Emre Canada
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Kane has never scored against Cardiff, the only team in the Premier he hasn’t I think

  9. TRIPOS TOPPER
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    the last minute wait to spy on your ML rival's transfers

    am I the only one sad enough to do this every week?

    1. Don Rogers FC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      No

    2. My Name Is Pepu
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Most of the folks do that.

  10. The Mandalorian
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Happy New Year Hazard cappers!!!!

    1. My Name Is Pepu
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Cool kids assemble. 😎

      o/

    2. Sponge-worthy
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      o/

    3. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Happy New Year o/

  11. TRIPOS TOPPER
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    FPL servers creaking like a sailor's wooden leg!

    Maybe they should upgrade the commodore 64 to 128k

  12. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Managed to not make any transfers last week.

    How does:

    Son + Anderson + Auba > Salah + Pogba + Ings sound?

    Kane instead of Auba so I can get Mitrovic instead of Ings?

  13. Weilong7
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    updated

  14. Ser Davos
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    My midfield next GW:

    Richarlison (BOU), Sterling, (WOL), Hazard (NEW) and Anderson (ARS)

    Salah's last 4 hauls came against:

    Bournemouth, Wolves, Newcastle. Arsenal

    1. The Polymath
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      So where's the correlation?

      1. Ser Davos
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        BOU, WOL, NEW, ARS

        There isn't a "points" correlation per se, but interesting that before this run, Salah had only hauled a double figure only at home to Cardiff.

  15. Turbo Timo
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    I accidentally captained Pogba instead of Haz damnnnn

  16. Tasty Jerk
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Captain Kane, lovely.