Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 9 points for Maeda 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.

Maeda vs Saka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Saka by 20 projected points.

Maeda

IPSWICH TOWN · MID · £5.3

projected points / 5 GW

Sell64%

FUL (H)MCI (A)NFO (H)HUL (A)BOU (H)

Saka

ARSENAL · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£5.3Price£9.5

8Total points32

1.3Form5.8

1.6Points / game6.4

0.2%Owned13.7%

259Minutes416

0Goals3

0Assists0

0.71xG3.22

0.02xA0.98

8.1ICT52.1

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.0

9Projected pts29

The verdict

Saka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (29 vs 9), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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