Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Palmer 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.

Palmer vs Saka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Saka by 13 projected points.

Palmer

CHELSEA · MID · £9.7

projected points / 5 GW

Sell64%

BOU (H)EVE (A)TOT (H)MUN (H)SUN (A)

Saka

ARSENAL · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£9.7Price£9.5

28Total points32

2.7Form5.8

5.6Points / game6.4

25.7%Owned13.7%

442Minutes416

2Goals3

2Assists0

1.31xG3.22

0.79xA0.98

44.1ICT52.1

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.0

16Projected pts29

The verdict

Saka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (29 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping Palmer.

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

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