Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 15 points for Manzambi and 18 for Rice, so Rice 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.

Manzambi vs Rice

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Rice by 3 projected points.

Manzambi

ASTON VILLA · MID · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

NEW (A)MCI (H)FUL (H)MUN (A)SUN (H)

Rice

ARSENAL · MID · £7.3

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

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

Stat by stat

£6.0Price£7.3

30Total points34

9.7Form5.0

7.5Points / game4.9

2.5%Owned10.9%

254Minutes591

2Goals0

2Assists4

1.43xG0.32

0.57xA1.15

25.7ICT29.4

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

15Projected pts18

The verdict

Rice comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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