Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 19 points for Tavernier and 27 for Palmer, so Palmer 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.

Tavernier vs Palmer

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Palmer by 8 projected points.

Tavernier

Bournemouth · MID · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

MCI (A)EVE (H)NEW (A)BRE (H)LIV (H)

Palmer

Chelsea · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

FUL (A)BHA (H)ARS (A)HUL (H)BRE (A)

Stat by stat

£6.0Price£9.5

10Total points13

10.0Form13.0

10.0Points / game13.0

1.8%Owned11.1%

90Minutes82

1Goals1

0Assists1

0.40xG0.24

0.08xA0.21

0.0ICT0.0

3.6Avg FDR (5)3.0

19Projected pts27

The verdict

Palmer comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (27 vs 19), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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