Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Barnes and 16 for Cunha, so Cunha 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.

Barnes vs Cunha

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Cunha by 0 projected points.

Barnes

NEWCASTLE · MID · £6.1

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

CRY (A)EVE (H)FUL (A)ARS (H)BHA (A)

Cunha

MAN UTD · MID · £7.9

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

BOU (H)CHE (A)AVL (H)LIV (A)BRE (H)

Stat by stat

£6.1Price£7.9

40Total points38

4.0Form4.0

5.0Points / game4.8

7.4%Owned6.3%

706Minutes548

2Goals1

3Assists3

1.52xG1.12

0.89xA0.96

45.3ICT36.6

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.4

16Projected pts16

The verdict

Cunha comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (16 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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