Fantasy Football: Captaincy quandary
Friday 23rd September 2011 12:26
Fantasy Football: Captain options
Sky Bet's Tim Clement offers some suggestions as to who should be captaining your Sky Sports Fantasy Football team.
With the Premier League's big boys all odds-on favourites to register victories, selecting your Sky Sports Fantasy Football skipper is a tough call this weekend.
So, this week, we are calling upon the help of betting experts Sky Bet to work out who is most likely to bring home the points.
Sergio Aguero (£9.6m) was the highest scorer last weekend with 17 points thanks to his brace at Fulham, that haul seeing him move to just three points behind leading scorer Wayne Rooney, who currently has 65.
The Argentina star looks likely to add to his tally of eight goals this season with the online bookmaker making him 4/5 to score when Everton visit the Etihad Stadium in Saturday's early game.
However, having scored in every match so far this season, Rooney (£9.9m) is also odds on to net at the weekend when Manchester United visit Stoke.
Rooney offered relatively modest returns against Chelsea in netting once before missing a penalty, a far cry from his back-to-back hat-tricks against Arsenal and Bolton, but that is unlikely to detract the 44% of bosses from keeping him on board.
The game's second most selected player Luis Suarez is 8/11 to net anytime when Liverpool host Wolves, but the Uruguay striker has failed to net in three and cut a frustrated figure in being booked and substituted off in the Reds' 4-0 defeat at Tottenham.
Cheaper option
The in-form frontman at White Hart Lane that day was Emmanuel Adebayor, who is offering great value at £6.2m after netting three in two since his loan move from Manchester City to Spurs.
His arrival seems to have also reinvigorated striker partner Jermain Defoe (£7.7m) and the England frontman will be looking forward to facing Wigan on Saturday having netted against them 10 times, more than against any other club.
Robin van Persie (£9.9m) is another striker available at a short price to score over the weekend with Arsenal 2/5 to beat Bolton despite their woeful start to the season.
However, the Dutchman failed to net against strugglers Swansea and Blackburn, making him far from a banker, especially given the Gunners' unpredictable form.
It is actually the man who will be looking to bounce back from one of the worst misses in the Premier League's history who is deemed the most likely to net with Sky Bet.
Fernando Torres (£9.4m) is 4/7 to score in 90 minutes, with Chelsea expected to win with ease when Swansea visit Stamford Bridge looking to be the first newly-promoted side to beat the Blues in over a decade.
Torres opened his account for the season in the 3-1 defeat at Old Trafford with a slick finish to reduce the deficit, but 'that miss' raises doubts over whether the Spaniard is ready to be entrusted with the Fantasy armband.
At the other end of the pitch, the 'big six' have offered little returns with clean sheets at a premium - QPR, Swansea and Newcastle surprisingly offering the best returns from their backlines.
Solid Swans
Those three supposed relegation battlers have kept three clean sheets with Swansea duo Michel Vorm (£3.8m) and Ashley Williams (£4.2m) the highest scoring goalkeeper and defender respectively.
In the middle of the park, there are three stand-out midfielders so far with Nani (£8.8m), David Silva (£8.4m) and Ashley Young (£7.9m) all racking up 30+ points.
Nani was the joint-highest scoring midfielder of the week with his stunning strike and an assist earning him the man of the match award - Scott Sinclair (£5m) also racked up 15 points for his part in Swansea's 3-0 win over West Brom.
Silva and Young both continued to score well with an assist apiece, while Sebastian Larsson was also in fine form in picking up 11 points in Sunderland's 4-0 win over Stoke.
The Swede could be a shrewd pick if he takes spot-kicks when his side travel to a Norwich side who have given away a penalty in every game so far this season.
-Courtesy of skysports.com
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