Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 13 points for McAtee 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.

McAtee vs Gakpo

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

McAtee

NOTT'M FOREST · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

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

Gakpo

LIVERPOOL · MID · £7.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

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

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£7.2

12Total points32

2.3Form5.0

2.4Points / game6.4

0.1%Owned12.4%

416Minutes370

0Goals1

0Assists3

0.37xG0.64

0.96xA1.71

27.6ICT35.2

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.4

13Projected pts14

The verdict

Gakpo comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (14 vs 13), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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