Captain GW 7

Minime2.5

Whos your pick for captain this week?

Darksoul

Son

Minime2.5 wrote: »

Whos your pick for captain this week?

Spurs have a nice fixture so either Kane or Son.

Bamford is on fire and could do well also.The rest of the fixtures I can't see any other players realistically.

Father Hernandez

Bameford

Son for me currently.

Between Kane, Son and Salah.

Salah at home v West Ham (who've had a good start) and Spurs v Brighton. (who've had a relatively poor start)

Fancy Spurs to put more past Brighton, Son/Kane is a toss up. Son for now.

Brian201888

Have Kane/Werner/Salah/Son so it'll be a tough call. Currently on Salah I think

Morzadec

Mane

Salah looked more dangerous than Kane last week. Not much to choose between WH and Brighton, with similar XG against. Liverpool with a better xG at home than Spurs.

TAA looks back to his best so perhaps a slightly more potent right side now, where Liverpool have been a bit more reliant on the left.

Salah has an excellent record against WH.

Leaning towards Salah but it's a tough call, could be persuaded if anyone has a decent Kane argument.

Chesty08

Morzadec wrote: »

Salah looked more dangerous than Kane last week. Not much to choose between WH and Brighton, with similar XG against. Liverpool with a better xG at home than Spurs.

TAA looks back to his best so perhaps a slightly more potent right side now, where Liverpool have been a bit more reliant on the left.

Salah has an excellent record against WH.

Leaning towards Salah but it's a tough call, could be persuaded if anyone has a decent Kane argument.

I’m sticking with Salah. Like you say Salah passed the eye test over Kane which is always a good sign.

Salah also had 1 off the post, 1 disallowed (marginal offside) & in the first few minutes an Egan interception prevents a tap in.

Salah has a great record v West Ham.

I appreciate Kane is on fire but so too has Salah, he arguably could of had more assists this season but for poor finishing.


Brighton are not at all bad, Palace are on form & Brighton completely played them off the park.. absolutely battered them with only getting 1 shot.

Though the big concern is they conceded 3 to Chelsea & United and 4 to Everton - however I think very unlucky in the Chelsea/United game to concede that many.

West Ham are playing well, have accumulated a good chunk of points for the fixtures they had put 3 by Wolves & 4 by Leicester .. so I think they’ll play with a little bit more freedom & openness as they are confident & not in dire need of points!

Newbie20

I have Salah, Mane, Kane and Bamford. Leaning towards Liverpool vs West Ham. I still feel I just can’t trust Spurs. I’m wondering should I chance Mane? He has 4 goals and 2 assists in the 5 games he’s played. I was thinking about sticking with Salah for most games but seeing as Mane is only owned by 9.6% I’m tempted to go with that as a differential. Any advice?

Morzadec

Mane

Newbie20 wrote: »

I have Salah, Mane, Kane and Bamford. Leaning towards Liverpool vs West Ham. I still feel I just can’t trust Spurs. I’m wondering should I chance Mane? He has 4 goals and 2 assists in the 5 games he’s played. I was thinking about sticking with Salah for most games but seeing as Mane is only owned by 9.6% I’m tempted to go with that as a differential. Any advice?

It's a really tough call. Mane has looked more dangerous when both are on the pitch as you say. But Salah has penalties and it's not like he's not looking sharp himself.

Honestly Salah will almost certainly outscore Mane this season. Because of penalties and because he just scores slightly more points in general (even in 19/20 when Salah didn't take pens, everyone was raving about Mane and Salah was left out of the team of the season, Salah equalled Mane for goals but got 9 more assists). I do think that over the course of the season captaining Salah is likely to get you better returns, but over any one week it's very close to a toss up so if you're feeling good about Mane it's not an insane choice - could be worth researching if WH are weaker on a certain side or if they are conceding goals down a certain side.

The differential argument I've never really understood at this stage of the season. Just go with the option you think will return most points (unless you're chasing a manager of the month prize or something?). Or if you just like the fun element of being able to cheer for pure points. Going for differentials that you think are less likely to score points than a higher owned player is a recipe for getting left behind, honestly it's a word that would never enter my mouth until about GW25 at the earliest, I can't understand it!

ThewhiteJesus

Aubameyang

was tempted by Bameford but voted Rashford

Dice75

Mane

Salah or Kane aswell. I guess the potential extra 2 points per goal & 2 for a CS swing it to Salah i think.

Jim Gazebo

Bameford

Son

joeyboy11

Son

Salah again and pray for my first captain haul of the season!

Irishphotodesk

at the moment I have captaincy on Lookman (Fulham) - its a bit of a gamble, battle of the bottom, lookman looked very threatening last week....but I may chicken out and change it in the final few hours.

siblers

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

at the moment I have captaincy on Lookman (Fulham) - its a bit of a gamble, battle of the bottom, lookman looked very threatening last week....but I may chicken out and change it in the final few hours.

Don't. Fulham are awful

Irishphotodesk

siblers wrote: »

Don't. Fulham are awful

So are west brom, so it's the battle of the bad, I fancy Fulham to get something and lookman looks like he will click soon.

Newbie20

Morzadec wrote: »

It's a really tough call. Mane has looked more dangerous when both are on the pitch as you say. But Salah has penalties and it's not like he's not looking sharp himself.

Honestly Salah will almost certainly outscore Mane this season. Because of penalties and because he just scores slightly more points in general (even in 19/20 when Salah didn't take pens, everyone was raving about Mane and Salah was left out of the team of the season, Salah equalled Mane for goals but got 9 more assists). I do think that over the course of the season captaining Salah is likely to get you better returns, but over any one week it's very close to a toss up so if you're feeling good about Mane it's not an insane choice - could be worth researching if WH are weaker on a certain side or if they are conceding goals down a certain side.

The differential argument I've never really understood at this stage of the season. Just go with the option you think will return most points (unless you're chasing a manager of the month prize or something?). Or if you just like the fun element of being able to cheer for pure points. Going for differentials that you think are less likely to score points than a higher owned player is a recipe for getting left behind, honestly it's a word that would never enter my mouth until about GW25 at the earliest, I can't understand it!

Cheers, lot of good advice there. I know what you mean about differentials. The league I have most interest in this year with my friends is a head to head league and a lot have Salah so that’s why I was thinking a bit that way even this early! But I think you’re right that overall Salah is a slightly safer bet and I did say to myself that I’d try and stick with him for the season bar the few difficult fixtures. If I stick with him for most of the season, he’ll let me down the odd time but probably not too often.

siblers

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

So are west brom, so it's the battle of the bad, I fancy Fulham to get something and lookman looks like he will click soon.

But I can't see how he will outscore Kane, Son, Salah etc

siblers

siblers wrote: »

Don't. Fulham are awful

I do and don’t agree.

They are woeful defensively but I’ve been quite taken with their attacking play.

The last 2 games I watched they could have easily scored a few goals.

And they will need to score goals as they will no doubt concede in most games they play so they will have to attack.

siblers

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I do and don’t agree.

They are woeful defensively but I’ve been quite taken with their attacking play.

The last 2 games I watched they could have easily scored a few goals.

And they will need to score goals as they will no doubt concede in most games they play so they will have to attack.

True but I also think West Brom are a lot more solid at the back. I think having Lookman is enough of a differential without needing to captain him. Although i guess it does stop you trying to choose between Salah, Son etc which is a tough call

Irishphotodesk

siblers wrote: »

But I can't see how he will outscore Kane, Son, Salah etc

He doesn't need to outscore them, all I want from him is to bring in points, if he gets 3 bps and clean sheet points, it's the equivalent of a goal, but if he assists/scores it will be enough to bring green arrows.

Just for the record.... I'm currently sitting around the 2millionth place in rankings, I'm not going to challenging for overall winner of even close, I play the game to have a bit of fun.

Through the years I have found it consumes too much of my time to do the required research to compete in money leagues, I do join a few but only to keep myself entertained, my highest finish is around 100,000th back in 2011/12 .

Last week I should have left my captain alone and not changed ...but because of reading that Salah was going to have a great week etc massive points haul... I panicked and changed away from bamford (it was set to bamford for his game against villa -which failed- but I was so close to having a hat-trick captain ... Which I haven't had in possibly over 10yrs)

This week I hear the same voices shouting Kane, Salah etc all going to have good scores, but the reality is, ... On any given gameweek... I might be right, this weekend...could be that gameweek.

Salah and the others are also playing champions League/Europa League in midweek, so fatigue from travel should contribute to the lack of consistency from those players.... Granted Kane and son only got 45 and 30mins respectively but.. they also lost their game and only scored 1 goal between them last week when people were saying they would get 3/4 , the players are not playing free flowing football, my own stubbornness is stopping me getting rashford/martial, grealish, Koch, klitch... All if which I think could do well over the next few gameweeks.

I think Chelsea -if they can keep another clean sheet - will be the team to keep an eye on for players.

Jim Gazebo

Bameford

Is son now a risk after a very poor performance from spurs last night..... Might just stick to Salah now.

CSF

Son

Those who own Son/Kane or both, but are captaining Salah. Let me know what the thinking (or any relevant stats) was that swung you in that direction. Still very undecided and I don’t even own Kane yet.

Morzadec

Mane

CSF wrote: »

Those who own Son/Kane or both, but are captaining Salah. Let me know what the thinking (or any relevant stats) was that swung you in that direction. Still very undecided and I don’t even own Kane yet.

I had a post further up (yesterday I think) arguing for Salah, but there's not much in it. It's a tough call but I own all 3 and am going for Salah

sheroman01

Mane

CSF wrote: »

Those who own Son/Kane or both, but are captaining Salah. Let me know what the thinking (or any relevant stats) was that swung you in that direction. Still very undecided and I don’t even own Kane yet.

Morzadec wrote: »

I had a post further up (yesterday I think) arguing for Salah, but there's not much in it. It's a tough call but I own all 3 and am going for Salah

I went Kane > Son > Salah. I'm so so torn. It's on Salah now. I'l be honest it's because he's topping some polls and I fcuked up last week with a -4 for Aguero so I dont feel like gambling two weeks in a row. Also, Salah on pens (vs Son) and I'm thinking he can't blank two gws in a row...

Shanotheslayer

Mane

CSF wrote: »

Those who own Son/Kane or both, but are captaining Salah. Let me know what the thinking (or any relevant stats) was that swung you in that direction. Still very undecided and I don’t even own Kane yet.

Mise.

I went with Salah out of pure fear. Higher ceiling than Son/Kane for me.

cizolin

Going with Sterling

Cartman78

Mane

CSF wrote: »

Those who own Son/Kane or both, but are captaining Salah. Let me know what the thinking (or any relevant stats) was that swung you in that direction. Still very undecided and I don’t even own Kane yet.

Have Kane but probably going to Captain Salah.

Went with Salah last week as well and despite him and Liverpool in general misfiring a bit he could easily have had a significant haul.

He looks sharp and while Liverpool are a bit ropey defensively I feel they're going to click up front soon and West Ham at home seems like a good opportunity.

And I'm a Liverpool fan fwiw.....

Father Hernandez

Bameford

Father Hernandez wrote: »

Son for me currently.

Between Kane, Son and Salah.

Salah at home v West Ham (who've had a good start) and Spurs v Brighton. (who've had a relatively poor start)

Fancy Spurs to put more past Brighton, Son/Kane is a toss up. Son for now.

This game

Gone for Kane (C), Salah (VC)

Dubh Geannain

Bameford

9 am this morning - Son
5 minutes ago - Salah
Now - Kane

I'm closing the FF tab nnnnnnnnnnow.

Fromvert

Mane

Had it on Kane but have switched it to Salah now. Let's go Salah!

dsmythy

Son

So torn between Kane and Salah. Nothing wrong with Son either. Nor Mane for those who have him.

There's is no pre decision right or wrong here.

On Kane now purely because I think West Ham's defence might be slightly better than Brighton's.

Brighton interestingly have the biggest discrepancy between goals conceded and expected goals conceded alongside Liverpool. Their clean sheets are not far away but probably not against Tottenham!

Mr.Nice Guy

Son

Torn between Kane and Salah and think both are good options this week. By a whisker, I'm going Kane. I'm hoping for a reaction following the Europa League result.

Just_Magic

Bameford

Heung min here.

CSF

Son

Going Kane.

SkySter

Bameford

Three changes in the last hour. Feck it. Kane it is.

COH

Son

Kane

Ace2007

Bameford

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

He doesn't need to outscore them, all I want from him is to bring in points, if he gets 3 bps and clean sheet points, it's the equivalent of a goal, but if he assists/scores it will be enough to bring green arrows.

Just for the record.... I'm currently sitting around the 2millionth place in rankings, I'm not going to challenging for overall winner of even close, I play the game to have a bit of fun.

Through the years I have found it consumes too much of my time to do the required research to compete in money leagues, I do join a few but only to keep myself entertained, my highest finish is around 100,000th back in 2011/12 .

Last week I should have left my captain alone and not changed ...but because of reading that Salah was going to have a great week etc massive points haul... I panicked and changed away from bamford (it was set to bamford for his game against villa -which failed- but I was so close to having a hat-trick captain ... Which I haven't had in possibly over 10yrs)

This week I hear the same voices shouting Kane, Salah etc all going to have good scores, but the reality is, ... On any given gameweek... I might be right, this weekend...could be that gameweek.

Salah and the others are also playing champions League/Europa League in midweek, so fatigue from travel should contribute to the lack of consistency from those players.... Granted Kane and son only got 45 and 30mins respectively but.. they also lost their game and only scored 1 goal between them last week when people were saying they would get 3/4 , the players are not playing free flowing football, my own stubbornness is stopping me getting rashford/martial, grealish, Koch, klitch... All if which I think could do well over the next few gameweeks.

I think Chelsea -if they can keep another clean sheet - will be the team to keep an eye on for players.

After all this you still did captained Salah and not Lookman?

Irishphotodesk

Ace2007 wrote: »

After all this you still did captained Salah and not Lookman?

I know.... I flip flopped between multiple captains throughout the day, I’m lucky it was still on salah at least and not one of the other captains I had picked, annoyed with myself that I got distracted by kids and wife during the day, I missed the Rodriquez news, would have shipped him out if I had and brought in someone to try make the most of bench boost.

I toyed with DCL during the day, then realized that if Everton were to do well it’s their midfield that would be likely to get the points, had it on Rodriquez with vice salah, switched their roles, then moved to bring in a few people and play the bench boost and forgot about it (I have 4yr old twins and neighbours called throughout the day dropping in party bags for Halloween, I got distracted)

... I don’t think salah will get a good score this week, just because Antonio is out, west ham can still be strong, if anyone on the team will get points it will be mane/robbo, I’m hopeful that Liverpool and Chelsea have clean sheets ...and anything else is a bonus.

Jim Gazebo

Bameford

I went with my gut and went son. Salah is up against a defence that have done remarkably well lately. If spurs react and click then they could score a hatful. ****ting myself.

Chesty08

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

I know.... I flip flopped between multiple captains throughout the day, I’m lucky it was still on salah at least and not one of the other captains I had picked, annoyed with myself that I got distracted by kids and wife during the day, I missed the Rodriquez news, would have shipped him out if I had and brought in someone to try make the most of bench boost.

I toyed with DCL during the day, then realized that if Everton were to do well it’s their midfield that would be likely to get the points, had it on Rodriquez with vice salah, switched their roles, then moved to bring in a few people and play the bench boost and forgot about it (I have 4yr old twins and neighbours called throughout the day dropping in party bags for Halloween, I got distracted)

... I don’t think salah will get a good score this week, just because Antonio is out, west ham can still be strong, if anyone on the team will get points it will be mane/robbo, I’m hopeful that Liverpool and Chelsea have clean sheets ...and anything else is a bonus.

This makes no sense whatsoever

You’re lucky it’s still on Salah but don’t think he’ll get a good score.

So how are you lucky??

Irishphotodesk

Chesty08 wrote: »

This makes no sense whatsoever

You’re lucky it’s still on Salah but don’t think he’ll get a good score.

So how are you lucky??

I’m lucky because it could have been one of the other players in my squad, who have potential to not get any points, it was on Rodriguez before it switched to salah...earlier in the day it was on zaha .... that would have been worse than salah.

I think salah and Liverpool in general are not in full flight ....yes they are getting results, but something isn’t ...I can’t put my finger on it.... salah and Liverpool are not passing my “eye” test - for €12M, the money could be invested elsewhere, however if Rodriquez doesn’t play this week, he will be my first cull of the week.

extra gravy

Mane

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

Last week I should have left my captain alone and not changed ...but because of reading that Salah was going to have a great week etc massive points haul... I panicked and changed away from bamford (it was set to bamford for his game against villa -which failed- but I was so close to having a hat-trick captain ... Which I haven't had in possibly over 10yrs)

This week I hear the same voices shouting Kane, Salah etc all going to have good scores, but the reality is, ... On any given gameweek... I might be right, this weekend...could be that gameweek.

Maybe stop reading and listening to the voices then if you think it's negatively impacting your decisions.

Ace2007

Bameford

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

I’m lucky because it could have been one of the other players in my squad, who have potential to not get any points, it was on Rodriguez before it switched to salah...earlier in the day it was on zaha .... that would have been worse than salah.

I think salah and Liverpool in general are not in full flight ....yes they are getting results, but something isn’t ...I can’t put my finger on it.... salah and Liverpool are not passing my “eye” test - for €12M, the money could be invested elsewhere, however if Rodriquez doesn’t play this week, he will be my first cull of the week.

Given that you were considering Lookman seriously, I don't think there could be any player in your squad not to get points, even if you had in on Hamez, there is always a VC.

If Lookman gets a double digit score this weekend - you can't be like last week with Bamford and say you were seriously thinking about it given that you say you've had it on the majority of the team this weekend.

Rikand

Son

Kane 3 weeks in a row