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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 Blank Gameweek 26.</p>
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<h2><strong>Best FPL captain for Blank Gameweek 26: The candidates</strong></h2>
<p>We got our triple captaincy return last week. It wasn’t amazing but you can’t be too disappointed with double figures, given some of the fails in previous seasons.</p>
<p>This week, with some struggling to field a starting 11, every little point is crucial and crushing your captaincy return will make the difference on whether it's a red or green arrow. So who should you go for?</p>
<p>These are the main candidates:</p>
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<li><strong>Ollie Watkins (£8.7m) </strong>v Nottingham Forest (H)</li>
<li><strong>Erling Haaland (£14.4m)</strong> v Bournemouth (A)</li>
<li><strong>Hwang Hee-chan (£5.5m)</strong> v Sheffield United (H)</li>
<li><strong>Bukayo Saka (£9.0m)</strong> v Newcastle (H)</li>
<li><strong>Rasmus Hojlund (£7.2m)</strong> v Fulham (H)</li>
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<p id="caption-attachment-62164" class="wp-caption-text">The main captaincy options for Blank Gameweek 26</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Blank Gameweek 26: The fixtures</h2>
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<p id="caption-attachment-62105" class="wp-caption-text">Blank Gameweek 26 fixtures</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Blank Gameweek 26: reverse fixtures</h2>
<p>These fixtures took place in Gameweek 11. Here’s what happened last time:</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-62112" class="wp-caption-text">Reverse fixtures</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-62111" class="wp-caption-text">Reverse fixtures team of the week</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Blank Gameweek 26: Twitter poll</h2>
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<p id="caption-attachment-62117" class="wp-caption-text">Captaincy Twitter poll</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Blank Gameweek 26: Players' records</h2>
<p><strong>Hwang </strong>- Picked up an assist in the reverse fixture.</p>
<p><strong>Haaland</strong> - Had to come off at half-time in the reverse fixture but it's likely that he would have returned, as he has in every other game he's faced Bournemouth.</p>
<p><strong>Saka</strong> - May have blanked his last four starts against Newcastle but only one of them was a home game and he's returned in every other home meeting.</p>
<p><strong>Watkins</strong> - May have blanked in the reverse fixture but he's got a 100% record against them at Villa Park.</p>
<p><strong>Ho</strong><strong>jlund</strong> - started the season slowly and has picked up considerably in 2024.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-62107" class="wp-caption-text">Opposition records</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Best FPL captain for Blank Gameweek 26: Members' stats breakdown</h2>
<p>The stats are filtered to show 'per start' for the individual players and 'by appearance' for the teams for the previous six gameweeks. These were taken prior to the conclusion of the Gameweek 25 midweek matches.</p>
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