Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 13 points for Willock and 29 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.

Willock vs Saka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Saka by 16 projected points.

Willock

NEWCASTLE · MID · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Saka

ARSENAL · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

LEE (H)NFO (A)EVE (H)LIV (A)HUL (H)

Stat by stat

£5.0Price£9.5

22Total points32

4.3Form5.8

4.4Points / game6.4

0.6%Owned13.7%

284Minutes416

2Goals3

0Assists0

0.81xG3.22

0.30xA0.98

19.4ICT52.1

2.8Avg FDR (5)3.0

13Projected pts29

The verdict

Saka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (29 vs 13), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

Buy — Willock 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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