Here’s our fantasy premier league captain pick GW27 article. We look at the fixtures, the bookies odds, the FFGeek captain poll, the contributors picks and stats to seek out the best captain choice. There’s also the results of the transfer polls. Now updated for further FFGeek contributors captain picks
fantasy premier league captain pick GW27 – plus transfer poll results – UPDATED
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Fixtures
Bookies team to win odds
Liverpool £1.17 – Salah, Mane, Firmino
Wolves v Norwich £1.53 – Jimenez
Man Utd £1.57 – Martial
Southampton £1.63 – Ings
The anytime goal scorer odds
These are the odds for anytime goalscorer for £1 bet. They assume the player starts and don’t take into account assist potential
£1.55 – Salah
£1.60 – Ings
£1.70 – Aguero
£1.80 – Mane
£1.85 – Aubameyang
£1.90 – Jimenez
£1.95 – Abraham
£2.00 – Martial
£2.20 – Firmino, Wood
£2.25 – Vardy, Calvert Lewin
The Captain Poll results
The FFGeek captain poll asks who will be your captain? Thanks for taking the time to vote
Other FPL polls
Here’s a selection of results from other polls:
Poll 1 is the highest traffic site and asks who is the best captain
There are 2 twitter polls which ask who your captain will be. Only 1 this week though
The last 1 is a low volume site poll where there is no question.
n/a means that player isn’t in the poll
Contributor Picks
Here’s the picks of the 19 contributors
Stats comparison
Salah v Mane
Gametime
Both played in the Champions League match vs Atletico Madrid although Mane was subbed at half time this was due to having a yellow card and Klopp believing the Madrid players were trying to get him sent off. With no midweek match on I would be surprised if both didn’t start
Salah in selected home matches
Mane in selected home matches
The West Ham away defence
Surprisingly 10th away from home with goals conceded. 20 from 13 games
Less surprisingly they are 19th in xG conceded away from home with 27.79. Their difference between goals and xG away is the widest of any team
Shots per game against they are 18th with 15.6
So a bad defence maybe bailed out by Fabianski when he’s played?
Summary
I suspect both Salah and Mane will start
The anytime goalscorer odds favour Salah at £1.55. Ings and Aguero follow closely then Mane at £1.80
The Polls are resoundingly with Salah with others reasonably far behind
The FFGeek contributors are pretty unanimously backing Salah.
The stats comparison is quite close although in a points head to head Salah won that.
Salah will take pens if Milner is off the field.
The FFGeek choice
With this poll lead it’s Salah for me. No question
Transfer polls
The poll was up fairly early on so I suspect alot of the transfers out for others are for Son and some of the transfers in for others are
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