Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 6 points for Kovačić and 14 for Gakpo, so Gakpo 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.

Kovačić vs Gakpo

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

Kovačić

MAN CITY · MID · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Sell78%

LIV (A)IPS (H)AVL (A)BHA (H)NFO (A)

Gakpo

LIVERPOOL · MID · £7.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

MCI (H)BRE (A)BHA (H)ARS (H)CRY (A)

Stat by stat

£5.4Price£7.2

2Total points32

0.0Form5.0

1.0Points / game6.4

0.1%Owned12.4%

42Minutes370

0Goals1

0Assists3

0.00xG0.64

0.02xA1.71

0.9ICT35.2

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.4

6Projected pts14

The verdict

Gakpo comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (14 vs 6), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

Hold — Gakpo is fine to keep, but there is no urgent case to bring him in.

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