Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 6 points for Mainoo and 38 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.

Mainoo vs Saka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Saka by 33 projected points.

Mainoo

Man Utd · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell71%

HUL (A)IPS (H)EVE (A)MCI (H)FUL (A)

Saka

Arsenal · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

COV (H)AVL (A)CHE (H)SUN (A)BHA (A)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£9.5

1Total points9

1.0Form9.0

1.0Points / game9.0

1.0%Owned9.9%

23Minutes67

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.07xG0.64

0.01xA0.08

0.0ICT0.0

2.8Avg FDR (5)3.2

6Projected pts38

The verdict

Saka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (38 vs 6), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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