The 5 best triple captain candidates for Fantasy Premier League Double Gameweek 26

There isn’t any extra thrilling time to play the triple captain chip in Fantasy Premier League than throughout a double gameweek. Twice the variety of video games, twice the quantity of enjoyable (hopefully).

Gameweek 26 has been given the double gameweek therapy by the Premier League and suffice to say it’s a biggie with 14 groups scheduled to play two video games.

Double Gameweek 26 fixtures

Saturday 27 February

• Man Metropolis vs West Ham
• West Brom vs Brighton
• Leeds vs Aston Villa
• Newcastle vs Wolves

Sunday 28 February

• Crystal Palace vs Fulham
• Leicester vs Arsenal
• Tottenham vs Burnley
• Chelsea vs Man Utd
• Sheffield Utd vs Liverpool

Monday 1 March

Tuesday 2 March

Wednesday 3 March

• Burnley vs Leicester
• Sheffield Utd vs Aston Villa
• Crystal Palace vs Man Utd

Thursday 4 March

• Fulham vs Spurs
• West Brom vs Everton
• Liverpool vs Chelsea

Staff enjoying twice in Gameweek 26: Aston Villa, Burnley, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Leicester, Liverpool, Man Metropolis, Man Utd, Sheffield Utd, Spurs, West Brom, Wolves

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Under i assesses the highest 5 triple captain candidates forward of Gameweek 26:

Harry Kane (Spurs)

Southampton are the one membership within the Premier League to have earned fewer factors than Spurs over the previous six matches, however Harry Kane continues to be prone to be well-backed with the armband for Gameweek 26 as a consequence of his subsequent two fixtures.

Kane has a superb report in opposition to Burnley, scoring seven objectives in opposition to them and offering an extra three assists in solely 9 matches. In 4 matches in opposition to Fulham, in the meantime, he has scored six instances, together with a hat-trick in an FA Cup tie in 2017.

Regardless of Tottenham’s struggles, Kane has loved an excellent particular person marketing campaign, contributing in direction of 24 objectives (13 objectives, 11 assists) in solely 22 matches. Regardless of blanking for the third time in 4 video games, Kane appeared sharp in opposition to West Ham and can count on to be again amongst the objectives this week.

Value: £11.1m Factors: 155

Double gameweek fixtures: Burnley (h), Fulham (a)

Mo Salah (Liverpool)

After going 4 years with out dropping a Premier League sport at Anfield, Liverpool have now misplaced 4 consecutive matches at house, failing to attain in three of them. Equally to Jose Mourinho’s Spurs, Jurgen Klopp’s Reds are caught in a little bit of a rut.

Regardless of his staff’s points, Mo Salah has largely maintained his exceptionally excessive requirements, top-scoring within the Premier League with 17 objectives. A report of 24 objectives in 34 video games in all competitions can also be fairly spectacular given the circumstances.

Salah has pissed off FPL managers of late, blanking in eight of his final 11 matches, however his underlying numbers are nonetheless promising. Over the previous 4 gameweeks, he ranks joint-top for photographs on objective with 17 and can fancy his possibilities in opposition to Sheffield United, specifically.

Value: £12.6m Factors: 164

Double gameweek fixtures: Sheffield Utd (a), Chelsea (h)

Ilkay Gundogan (Man Metropolis)

In hindsight, Ilkay Gundogan would have been a superb triple captaincy selection in Gameweek 24, although he solely ended up enjoying in one among Manchester Metropolis’s two fixtures. Gundogan scored twice and registered an FPL help after profitable a penalty throughout a 3-0 win over Spurs to achieve 19 factors.

That was Gundogan’s highest-score of the marketing campaign, however he has racked up quite a few large hauls since occupying a extra superior function in Pep Guardiola’s midfield. Gundogan has hit double figures in six of his final 13 matches and solely blanked 4 instances in that run.

Gundogan has scored 11 league objectives since opening his account for the season in opposition to West Brom in Gameweek 13, a complete which is three higher than some other participant. Whereas triple captaining a Metropolis participant is all the time a danger as a consequence of Guardiola’s propensity to rotate, Gundogan’s place needs to be safe as a consequence of his type.

Value: £6.1m Factors: 126

Double gameweek fixtures: West Ham (h), Wolves (h)

Bruno Fernandes (Man Utd)

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Like Salah, Bruno Fernandes has one good sport – away to Crystal Palace – in Gameweek 26 alongside a trickier one in opposition to Chelsea. Nevertheless, throughout his time in English soccer, Fernandes has demonstrated his means to attain and supply FPL returns in opposition to nearly anybody.

Fernandes’ 12-point haul in opposition to Newcastle on Sunday took him additional clear on the high of the highest-scorer chart in FPL, with 26 factors separating him from Liverpool’s Egyptian King. Even when he’s not on the high of the sport, Fernandes nonetheless continues to return.

Over the course of the season, Fernandes ranks high of all gamers for efforts on objective (83) and is the second-highest scorer behind Salah, netting 15 instances. His report away from Previous Trafford bodes effectively forward of Gameweek 26 too as he has amassed 92 factors on the highway this season.

Value: £11.6m Factors: 190

Double gameweek fixtures: Chelsea (a), Crystal Palace (a)

Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton)

The primary 4 alternatives don’t want a lot explaining given three of them – Kane, Salah and Fernandes – rank within the high 4 highest-scorers in FPL (Son Heung-min is the opposite) and Gundogan has been one of the best participant within the sport over the previous two months.

If you’re searching for extra of a differential captaincy selection, nevertheless, Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin appears to be like a superb possibility. Calvert-Lewin missed each of Everton’s fixtures in Gameweek 24 however returned as an alternative in opposition to Liverpool in Gameweek 25, profitable a contentious penalty late on.

That 2-0 win within the Merseyside ought to galvanise Everton forward of matches in opposition to Southampton and West Brom who each rank within the backside six for objectives conceded. After a lean patch in entrance of objective, Calvert-Lewin has amassed 25 factors in his final three matches.

Value: £7.6m Factors: 124

Double gameweek fixtures: Southampton (h), West Brom (a)

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