Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 12 points for Palacios 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.

Palacios vs Gakpo

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Gakpo by 2 projected points.

Palacios

FULHAM · MID · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

IPS (A)HUL (H)COV (A)AVL (A)NEW (H)

Gakpo

LIVERPOOL · MID · £7.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

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

Stat by stat

£5.4Price£7.2

12Total points32

3.0Form5.0

3.0Points / game6.4

0.2%Owned12.4%

226Minutes370

1Goals1

0Assists3

0.98xG0.64

0.03xA1.71

14.0ICT35.2

2.4Avg FDR (5)3.4

12Projected pts14

The verdict

Gakpo comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (14 vs 12), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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