Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 14 points for Gakpo and 13 for Rice, 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.

Gakpo vs Rice

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Gakpo by 1 projected points.

Gakpo

LIVERPOOL · MID · £7.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

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

Rice

ARSENAL · MID · £7.4

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

LEE (H)NFO (A)EVE (H)LIV (A)HUL (H)

Stat by stat

£7.2Price£7.4

32Total points20

5.0Form4.2

6.4Points / game4.0

12.4%Owned11.6%

370Minutes411

1Goals0

3Assists2

0.64xG0.12

1.71xA0.69

35.2ICT23.4

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.0

14Projected pts13

The verdict

Gakpo comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (14 vs 13), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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