B.Fernandes or Palmer?

Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 35 points for B.Fernandes and 28 for Palmer, so B.Fernandes 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.

B.Fernandes vs Palmer

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours B.Fernandes by 7 projected points.

B.Fernandes

MAN UTD · MID · £12.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

IPS (H)EVE (A)MCI (H)FUL (A)TOT (H)

Palmer

CHELSEA · MID · £9.6

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

BHA (H)ARS (A)HUL (H)BRE (A)BOU (H)

Stat by stat

£12.0Price£9.6

25Total points20

12.5Form10.0

12.5Points / game10.0

46.8%Owned17.5%

180Minutes172

3Goals2

1Assists1

2.03xG0.94

0.53xA0.37

9.3ICT16.1

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.0

35Projected pts28

The verdict

B.Fernandes comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (35 vs 28), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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