Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 28 points for Isak and 3 for Mateta, so Isak is the pick.

What does this comparison account for?

Price, ownership, form, expected goals and assists per 90, minutes reliability, and the difficulty of each player's next five fixtures.

Isak vs Mateta

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Isak by 25 projected points.

Isak

LIVERPOOL · FWD · £9.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

NFO (H)IPS (A)FUL (H)BOU (A)MCI (H)

Mateta

CRYSTAL PALACE · FWD · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell94%

MCI (H)FUL (A)IPS (H)LEE (A)NFO (H)

Stat by stat

£9.0Price£6.5

11Total points2

5.5Form1.0

5.5Points / game2.0

16.2%Owned4.8%

158Minutes62

1Goals0

0Assists0

1.99xG0.70

0.01xA0.02

9.2ICT2.5

2.8Avg FDR (5)3.0

28Projected pts3

The verdict

Isak comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (28 vs 3), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.8) and better current form.

Buy — Isak is one of the better FWD options for the next 5 gameweeks.

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping Mateta.

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