Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 10 points for Johnson and 14 for Gakpo, so Gakpo 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.

Johnson vs Gakpo

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

Johnson

EVERTON · MID · £5.9

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

HUL (A)CHE (H)ARS (A)NEW (A)COV (H)

Gakpo

LIVERPOOL · MID · £7.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

MCI (H)BRE (A)BHA (H)ARS (H)CRY (A)

Stat by stat

£5.9Price£7.2

9Total points32

2.3Form5.0

1.8Points / game6.4

0.1%Owned12.4%

238Minutes370

0Goals1

0Assists3

1.03xG0.64

0.22xA1.71

10.0ICT35.2

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.4

10Projected pts14

The verdict

Gakpo comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (14 vs 10), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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