Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 27 points for Palmer and 9 for Clarke, so Palmer 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 Clarke

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Palmer by 18 projected points.

Palmer

Chelsea · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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Clarke

Ipswich Town · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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Stat by stat

£9.5Price£5.5

13Total points7

13.0Form7.0

13.0Points / game7.0

11.5%Owned0.3%

82Minutes19

1Goals1

1Assists0

0.24xG0.10

0.21xA0.00

0.0ICT0.0

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.2

27Projected pts9

The verdict

Palmer comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (27 vs 9), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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