Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 6 points for Kovačić and 19 for King, so King 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 King

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours King by 13 projected points.

Kovačić

MAN CITY · MID · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Sell78%

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

King

FULHAM · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy92%

IPS (A)HUL (H)COV (A)AVL (A)NEW (H)

Stat by stat

£5.4Price£5.5

2Total points24

0.0Form5.0

1.0Points / game4.8

0.1%Owned2.6%

42Minutes425

0Goals2

0Assists0

0.00xG1.54

0.02xA0.46

0.9ICT35.8

3.0Avg FDR (5)2.4

6Projected pts19

The verdict

King comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (19 vs 6), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.4) and better current form.

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

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

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