Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 13 points for Rice 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.

Rice vs Gakpo

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

Rice

ARSENAL · MID · £7.4

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Gakpo

LIVERPOOL · MID · £7.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

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

Stat by stat

£7.4Price£7.2

20Total points32

4.2Form5.0

4.0Points / game6.4

11.6%Owned12.4%

411Minutes370

0Goals1

2Assists3

0.12xG0.64

0.69xA1.71

23.4ICT35.2

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.4

13Projected pts14

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

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

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