Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 20 points for Ødegaard 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.

Ødegaard vs Palmer

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Palmer by 7 projected points.

Ødegaard

Arsenal · MID · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Palmer

Chelsea · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£6.5Price£9.5

11Total points13

11.0Form13.0

11.0Points / game13.0

10.0%Owned11.2%

75Minutes82

1Goals1

0Assists1

0.21xG0.24

0.10xA0.21

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

20Projected pts27

The verdict

Palmer comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (27 vs 20), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

Buy — Ødegaard 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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