With doubts surrounding the provision of Mohamed Salah (£12.7m) in gentle of his Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) involvement, Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers face one other robust captaincy choice for Gameweek 24, with a number of viable choices for the armband.
First, we’ll assess the fallout of the Gameweek 24 captain ballot, earlier than then analysing one of the best choices, Fee My Staff (RMT) and the Premier Fantasy Instruments scores forward of Tuesday’s 18:15 GMT deadline.
THE CAPTAIN POLL
Kevin De Bruyne (£12.2m) is the chief of the captain ballot in Gameweek 24, with slightly below 30% of whole votes from our customers on the time of writing.
No different participant has garnered greater than 20% of votes at this stage, with Jarrod Bowen (£6.9m) in second backed by 16.23%.
Salah occupies third place with 13.67%, having been closely backed at first of the winter break, adopted by Manchester United duo Bruno Fernandes (£11.7m) and Cristiano Ronaldo (£12.5m), with 7.66% and 6.25% respectively.
KEVIN DE BRUYNE
Kevin De Bruyne has began simply 12 Premier League video games thus far this season, however since returning to Pep Guardiola’s beginning XI in Gameweek 17, has produced 4 targets and two assists in seven appearances, averaging 7.85 factors per match.
Consequently, the playmaker bagged Manchester Metropolis’s participant of the month award for January.
Regardless of his gradual begin to the season, solely two gamers – Trent Alexander-Arnold (£8.5m) and Bruno Fernandes – have created extra probabilities than him, and in his present run of seven straight Premier League begins, is averaging almost 4 photographs per match.
KEVIN DE BRUYNE’S UNDERLYING NUMBERS – LAST SEVEN MATCHES:
| GAMEWEEK | OPPONENT | SHOTS | SHOTS IN THE BOX | CHANCES CREATED |
| 23 | Southampton (a) | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 22 | Chelsea (h) | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 21 | Arsenal (a) | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 20 | Brentford (a) | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 19 | Leicester Metropolis (h) | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 18 | Newcastle United (a) | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 17 | Leeds United (h) | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Now, following his withdrawal after 68 minutes on Saturday, when he contributed an extra two assists, he’s absolutely in line for an additional begin in opposition to Brentford in Gameweek 24.
As for Thomas Frank’s facet, after their 4-1 defeat to Everton within the FA Cup fourth spherical, they’ve now conceded a whopping 23 targets of their final eight away matches in opposition to Premier League opposition. After being troublesome to beat at first of the season, their defensive construction immediately appears to be like weak, while points defending set items additionally will increase the potential for a De Bruyne haul, given that he’s Metropolis’s dead-ball specialist.
Elsewhere, Riyad Mahrez (£8.6m) was in glorious kind previous to becoming a member of up with Algeria for AFCON, and scored twice upon his return on Saturday. For the extra maverick managers amongst us, he may very well be price a glance, although the rotation danger must be acknowledged, while Phil Foden (£8.0m) and Joao Cancelo (£7.1m) are options choices within the Metropolis camp.