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            <p>Fantasy Football Hub's resident Fantasy Premier League (FPL) captaincy expert <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisTanFPL">Chris Tan</a> takes a close look at the best FPL captain options for Gameweek 12.</p>
<p>Chris has already taken an in-depth look at the individual <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/fpl-gameweek-11-fixtures-analysed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FPL Gameweek 12 fixtures</a> in a new weekly article series, which will be running in addition to his best captaincy article.</p>
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<h2><strong>Best FPL captain for Gameweek 12: The candidates</strong></h2>
<p>Last week was a wash out for the majority of teams and our captaincy picks! It was definitely a nervous Sunday after captaining <strong>Erling Haaland (£14.0m)</strong> with the fear that <strong>Mohamed Salah (£12.8m)</strong> would haul.</p>
<p>I’m confident that our decision process was fine and it was just one of those weeks.</p>
<p>This week we truly have a bit of a dilemma. The usual picks don’t have great fixtures, but do we trust some of the other options?</p>
<p>I’ve provided a breakdown of the best options. The main candidates for this week I'm looking at are:</p>
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<li><strong>Mohammed Salah (£12.9m) </strong>v Brentford (H)</li>
<li><strong>Erling Haaland (£14.0m)</strong> v Chelsea (A)</li>
<li><strong>Bukayo Saka (£8.6m)</strong> v Burnley (H)</li>
<li><strong>Bruno Fernandes (£8.3m)</strong> v Luton (H)</li>
<li><strong>Ollie Watkins (£8.4m)</strong> v Fulham (H)</li>
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<p>There are plenty of other solid options, not only from the same teams as the above, but a few other teams too. However, I want to condense it to the top five.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Gameweek 12: Our performance to date</h2>
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<p id="caption-attachment-59447" class="wp-caption-text">FPL Gameweek 12 best captain - our performance</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Gameweek 12: Top performers</h2>
<p>This illustrates why my preference is always to captain a midfielder where possible. With Salah a more than viable alternative now there's a real argument for adopting this approach.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-59456" class="wp-caption-text">FPL Gameweek 12 best captain - top performers</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Gameweek 12: The fixtures</h2>
<p>See my in-depth article for a review of each of this gameweek's fixtures, including the odds of teams scoring two or more goals and keeping a clean sheet, and players to target based specifically on each teams' weaknesses.</p>
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<li><a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/fpl-gameweek-11-fixtures-analysed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Gameweek 12 fixture analysis</strong></a></li>
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<p id="caption-attachment-59445" class="wp-caption-text">FPL Gameweek 12 best captain - fixtures</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Gameweek 12: Twitter poll</h2>
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<p id="caption-attachment-59457" class="wp-caption-text">FPL Gameweek 12 best captain - twitter poll</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Gameweek 12: Players' records</h2>
<p><strong>Salah</strong> - scored against Brentford at home last season. He didn't play in the home game the season before.</p>
<p><strong>Watkins</strong> - blanked both games last season but did score at home the season before.</p>
<p><strong>Haaland</strong> - blanked his last away game against Chelsea but they had a different team and manager.</p>
<p><strong>Saka</strong> - has a terrible record against Burnley, but his earlier games were as a left-back and the other games were against the old Sean Dyche version.</p>
<p><strong>Bruno</strong> – hasn’t had the pleasure of facing Luton yet.</p>
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<p>These other players aren't on my captaincy candidates list, but I was interested to see how they did previously:</p>
<p><strong>Son Heung-min (£9.6m)</strong> - has blanked his last seven against Wolves.</p>
<p><strong>Gabriel Martinelli (£7.7m)</strong> - similar to Saka, the games against Burnley previously were in a different era.</p>
<p><strong>Callum Wilson (£7.9m)</strong> - hasn't actually faced his former club in the league. He started a cup match against them last season and blanked.</p>
<p><strong>Kieran Trippier (£7.0m)</strong> - doesn't have a good record against Bournemouth and neither do Newcastle with regards to clean sheets.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-59448" class="wp-caption-text">FPL Gameweek 12 best captain - past performance</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Gameweek 12: Members' stats breakdown</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">These stats are taken from the Fantasy Football Hub <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta">Opta stats tool</a>.</p>
<p>I’ve used 'per appearance' data and I've cut it using the most recent six weeks.</p>
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