Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Barnes and 18 for Neto, so Neto 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 Neto

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Neto by 2 projected points.

Barnes

NEWCASTLE · MID · £6.1

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Neto

CHELSEA · MID · £6.6

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

TOT (H)MUN (H)SUN (A)LEE (H)NFO (A)

Stat by stat

£6.1Price£6.6

40Total points37

4.0Form7.7

5.0Points / game4.6

7.4%Owned3.8%

706Minutes591

2Goals3

3Assists1

1.52xG1.37

0.89xA0.93

45.3ICT53.4

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.0

16Projected pts18

The verdict

Neto comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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