Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 6 points for Grimes and 5 for Merino, so Grimes 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.

Grimes vs Merino

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Grimes by 2 projected points.

Grimes

Coventry City · MID · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

ARS (A)HUL (H)MCI (A)BHA (H)NFO (A)

Merino

Arsenal · MID · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Sell78%

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

Stat by stat

£5.0Price£6.0

2Total points1

2.0Form1.0

2.0Points / game1.0

0.2%Owned0.7%

90Minutes14

0Goals0

0Assists0

0.00xG0.11

0.02xA0.02

0.0ICT0.0

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

6Projected pts5

The verdict

Grimes comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (6 vs 5), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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