Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Clarke and 38 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.

Clarke vs Saka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Saka by 22 projected points.

Clarke

Ipswich Town · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

SUN (H)MUN (A)LIV (H)CRY (A)EVE (A)

Saka

Arsenal · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

COV (H)AVL (A)CHE (H)SUN (A)BHA (A)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£9.5

7Total points9

7.0Form9.0

7.0Points / game9.0

0.3%Owned9.7%

19Minutes67

1Goals1

0Assists0

0.08xG0.64

0.00xA0.08

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

16Projected pts38

The verdict

Saka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (38 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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