Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 6 points for Kovačić and 22 for Schade, so Schade 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 Schade

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Schade by 16 projected points.

Kovačić

MAN CITY · MID · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Sell78%

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

Schade

BRENTFORD · MID · £6.2

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£5.4Price£6.2

2Total points39

0.0Form8.7

1.0Points / game7.8

0.1%Owned11.5%

42Minutes447

0Goals3

0Assists2

0.00xG1.52

0.02xA0.32

0.9ICT35.4

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.2

6Projected pts22

The verdict

Schade comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (22 vs 6), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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