Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 9 points for Clarke and 27 for Palmer, so Palmer 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 Palmer

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Palmer by 18 projected points.

Clarke

Ipswich Town · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Palmer

Chelsea · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

FUL (A)BHA (H)ARS (A)HUL (H)BRE (A)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£9.5

7Total points13

7.0Form13.0

7.0Points / game13.0

0.3%Owned11.1%

19Minutes82

1Goals1

0Assists1

0.10xG0.24

0.00xA0.21

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

9Projected pts27

The verdict

Palmer comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (27 vs 9), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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