Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 6 points for Kovačić and 23 for Groß, so Groß 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 Groß

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Groß by 17 projected points.

Kovačić

MAN CITY · MID · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Sell78%

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

Groß

BRIGHTON · MID · £5.8

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

SUN (A)CRY (H)LIV (A)MCI (A)BRE (H)

Stat by stat

£5.4Price£5.8

2Total points47

0.0Form10.7

1.0Points / game9.4

0.1%Owned28.8%

42Minutes450

0Goals3

0Assists4

0.00xG1.77

0.02xA0.86

0.9ICT50.8

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.4

6Projected pts23

The verdict

Groß comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (23 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.

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

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