Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for McGinn and 19 for Cunha, so Cunha 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.

McGinn vs Cunha

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

McGinn

ASTON VILLA · MID · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Cunha

MAN UTD · MID · £7.9

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

TOT (H)LEE (A)BOU (H)CHE (A)AVL (H)

Stat by stat

£5.4Price£7.9

26Total points27

7.0Form4.3

4.3Points / game4.5

2.2%Owned6.0%

524Minutes451

1Goals1

2Assists2

1.44xG0.63

0.32xA0.83

14.8ICT30.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

17Projected pts19

The verdict

Cunha comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (19 vs 17), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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