‘I might captain Gabriel again this week’published at 16:35 GMT 7 November
FPL Q&A with Holly Shand
Julien Laurens
European football expert
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I captained Gabriel for the last gameweek, which was great on Saturday. Then I was very stressed between the end of the Arsenal game and the end of the Man City game because of Erling Haaland. In the end, Gabriel got 12 points and Haaland got 13.
A lot of people captained Haaland and rightly so. I was still very proud of my Gabriel pick, but it got very tense, and I was scared of Haaland’s points.
The fact that Arsenal are so good at defending, not conceding, not giving anything away to the opponent… the fact that he is so good at set-pieces.
At least you get some points off the clean sheet and points for the 90 minutes, because he never comes off.
On top of that, you can have an assist, a goal or maybe more on a set-piece. I thought it made sense. To be fair, I might even do it again against Sunderland if I don’t feel like Haaland against Liverpool.
