Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 3 points for Barcola and 29 for Saka, so Saka 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.

Barcola vs Saka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Saka by 26 projected points.

Barcola

LIVERPOOL · MID · £8.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Saka

ARSENAL · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

CHE (H)SUN (A)BHA (A)LEE (H)NFO (A)

Stat by stat

£8.0Price£9.5

0Total points20

0.0Form10.0

0.0Points / game10.0

0.1%Owned10.4%

0Minutes157

0Goals2

0Assists0

0.00xG1.27

0.00xA0.12

0.0ICT19.5

2.8Avg FDR (5)3.0

3Projected pts29

The verdict

Saka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (29 vs 3), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

Hold — Barcola is fine to keep, but there is no urgent case to bring him in.

Buy — Saka is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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