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Here’s our fantasy premier league GW3 captain choice article where we look at ways of assessing the best captain pick for the gameweek. We look at the fixtures, the bookies odds, the FPL advice site polls, who the FFGeek contributors are captaining, some stats and the FFGeek choice.  We also look at the results of the transfer in and out poll

fantasy premier league GW3 captain choice

The fixtures

 fantasy premier league GW3 captain choice

The Bookies Team win odds

Only 3 teams are heavy favourites this week:

Liverpool v Brighton £1.15 – Salah, Mane, Firmino

Wolves – Man City £1.25 – Aguero, Sterling,

Arsenal v West Ham – £1.36 – Aubameyang

The Bookies player odds

Here’s a bookies anytime goal scoring odds up to £2.20 for £1 invested:



£1.44 – Salah

£1.57 – Aguero

£1.60 – Aubameyang

£2.00 – Firmino, Mane

£2.10 – Sterling

£2.15 – Kane

The FPL advice site Polls

Here’s the FFGeek captain poll:

fantasy premier league GW3 captain choice

The FPL advice site polls

The FFGeek poll asks who will you captain as does site 2. Site 1 asks for the best captain and site 3 is silent on the question.

Site 1FFGeekSite 2Site3
Salah50646129
Aguero21212434
Aubameyang87117
Mane85n/a6

The FFGeek contributors

Here’s the FFGeek contributors captain picks.  I’ll fill the rest in once I’ve done the last contributors article



ContributorCapt Pick
Rob ReidSalah
Joseph CrilleySalah
Alex Ball
Mikael D
FPL Word
Keith SpencerSalah
Scott Hargadon
Yaniv SalomanSalah
Jordan SadlerSalah
Prakhar PatelSalah
Mkael HietalaSalah
Sergio TorijaSalah
Robert CosgraveSalah
Joe ArmigerSalah
Costas ChariAubameyang

With the 2 favourites being Salah and Aguero lets look at some stats

 Salah

Here’s Salah at home in 17/18 against non top 6 sides:

fantasy premier league GW3 captain choice

So he returned a goal or assist in 11 of 14 (79%) matches at home against the non top 6 in 17/18.

In the 1 game at home he scored v West Ham and had fantastic underlying stats and should have had more.

Brighton away against the top 6 in 17/18

fantasy premier league GW3 captain choice

So they conceded 2 goals in 5 of the 6 games and conceded an average of 2.3 goals.

In their only away game this season they lost 2-0 to Watford and were terrible.

Aguero

Here’s Aguero away in 17/18 against non top 6 sides:

fantasy premier league GW3 captain choice

So he returned in 4/17 (57%) games away against the non top 6 sides

It’s worth noting that he was injured for a number of games but of more interest was the fact that he was benched 4 times away but only came off it once.

His only game away was at Arsenal this season where he blanked but should have scored and assisted.

Wolves

Wolves were in the Championship last season so there were no stats to compare them with.  In the only home game against Everton they conceded 2 goals against 10 men.  It’s fair to say they have been unlucky defensively so far but impossible to assess on 2 games.

Summary

I would be extremely surprised if Salah didn’t start and have no reason to believe he won’t.

Aguero on the on the other hand is trickier.  If Pep goes to 1 striker then it’s between him and Jesus.  We can see that last season he was benched in 4 away games.

The bookies have Salah £1.44 this week and Aguero £1.57

Salah is a clear leader in the polls at around 50% to 20%

The FFGeek contributors are pretty unanimously agreed on Salah.

The stats also favour Salah as an attacking force vs Aguero.  The Brighton defence hasn’t held up well either away against the top 6 and has lost CB Dunk to injury.  The Wolves defence are an unknown but have performed better than the scores suggest.

The FFGeek choice

There’s no question for me it’s Salah.  He’s a better pick for me on the stats even before you get to the ownership and polls.

The transfer in and out polls

fantasy premier league GW3 captain choice

fantasy premier league GW3 captain choice

That’s it hope you found it useful.

If you want to see any some teams and their captain choices then there’s the contributor article part 1 and the contributor article part 2

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