Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 5 points for J.Murphy and 14 for Gakpo, so Gakpo 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.

J.Murphy vs Gakpo

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Gakpo by 10 projected points.

J.Murphy

NEWCASTLE · MID · £5.9

projected points / 5 GW

Sell71%

COV (A)AVL (H)CRY (A)EVE (H)FUL (A)

Gakpo

LIVERPOOL · MID · £7.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

MCI (H)BRE (A)BHA (H)ARS (H)CRY (A)

Stat by stat

£5.9Price£7.2

3Total points32

0.7Form5.0

0.6Points / game6.4

0.1%Owned12.4%

181Minutes370

0Goals1

0Assists3

0.03xG0.64

0.41xA1.71

4.9ICT35.2

2.8Avg FDR (5)3.4

5Projected pts14

The verdict

Gakpo comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (14 vs 5), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping J.Murphy.

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

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