Here’s our fantasy premier league captain choice GW2 article. We look at the fixtures, the bookies odds, the FFGeek captain poll, the contributors picks and some stats to seek out the best captain choice.
fantasy premier league captain choice GW2 – seeking out the options
The fixtures
Bookies team odds to win
Odds to win for £1 staked
Arsenal v Burnley – £1.32 Aubameyang
Man City v Spurs – £1.35 Sterling, De Bruyne
Southampton v Liverpool £1.47 – Salah, Mane
The Bookies player odds
The odds are for £1 invested up to £2.20. They assume the player starts and ignores assist potential.
£1.75 – Aubameyang
£1.85 – Aguero
£1.91 – Sterling
£1.95 – Jesus
£2.00 – Lacazette, Salah
£2.05 – Pepe, Mane
£2.10 – Wilson, Kean, Pepe
£2.20 – Maupay, Murray, Firmino
The Captain Poll
The captain poll was opened at Thursday mid day so everyone who voted had the knowledge that Salah had played for the full 120 minutes.
The contributors captain picks
| Salah | Sterling | |
| Yaniv | 1 | |
| Andrew W | 1 | |
| Rob C | 1 | |
| Ben | ||
| Kris | 1 | |
| Sergio | 1 | |
| Prakhar | 1 | |
| Rob R | 1 | |
| Scott | 1 | |
| Alex B | 1 | |
| Rick | 1 | |
| Mikael | 1 | |
| Joe | 1 | |
| Jordan | 1 | |
| Chris | 1 | |
| Costas | 1 | |
| Keith | 1 | |
| Matt | 1 | |
| Kev | 1 | |
| Stephen | 1 | |
| Alex S |
It should be noted that a few of the contributors are wavering on the basis that Salah played 120 minutes in the Super Cup on Wednesday and are thinking of switching to Sterling.
Salah vs Sterling stats
Salah away vs non top 6 stats in 18/19
Sterling vs top 6 at home in 18/19
Summary
Arsenal and Aubameyang are the favourites with the bookies and Sterling by a small margin has smaller odds than Salah
The polls are overwhemingly with Salah in terms of who is going to be FPL managers captain
The stats despite Sterling being against top 6 sides vs Salah against non top 6 sides are close. However Sterlings were concentrated in 2 games and you can see that the game against Spurs last season was much tighter.
The FFGeek view
I’m definitely going with Salah. While like everyone I’m concerned about Salah playing 120 minutes on Wednesday I don’t want to go against a poll for a highly owned player who can be very explosive. Everyone who voted in that poll which was put up on Thursday had the information regarding the Super Cup minutes.
I think the outcome of the game could depend on whether Poch decides to go toe to toe with Pep or has to chase the game as that could end up in a big score. If he plays very defensively then that could make it a low scoring affair.
Good luck whoever you choose
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