Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for Clarke and 8 for Cook, so Clarke 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 Cook

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Clarke by 9 projected points.

Clarke

Ipswich Town · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

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

Cook

Bournemouth · MID · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

MCI (A)EVE (H)NEW (A)BRE (H)LIV (H)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£5.0

7Total points3

7.0Form3.0

7.0Points / game3.0

0.3%Owned0.2%

19Minutes75

1Goals0

0Assists0

0.10xG0.00

0.00xA0.00

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.6

17Projected pts8

The verdict

Clarke comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 8), 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.

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

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