Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 38 points for Ødegaard and 36 for Gakpo, so Ødegaard 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.

Ødegaard vs Gakpo

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

Ødegaard

Arsenal · MID · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Gakpo

Liverpool · MID · £7.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

NEW (A)NFO (H)IPS (A)FUL (H)BOU (A)

Stat by stat

£6.5Price£7.0

11Total points10

11.0Form10.0

11.0Points / game10.0

9.4%Owned3.7%

75Minutes90

1Goals1

0Assists0

0.21xG0.24

0.10xA0.15

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)2.6

38Projected pts36

The verdict

Ødegaard comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (38 vs 36), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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