Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 5 points for Merino and 31 for Tavernier, so Tavernier 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.

Merino vs Tavernier

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Tavernier by 26 projected points.

Merino

Arsenal · MID · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Sell78%

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

Tavernier

Bournemouth · MID · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

MCI (A)EVE (H)NEW (A)BRE (H)LIV (H)

Stat by stat

£6.0Price£6.0

1Total points10

1.0Form10.0

1.0Points / game10.0

0.7%Owned1.7%

14Minutes90

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.14xG0.40

0.02xA0.03

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.6

5Projected pts31

The verdict

Tavernier comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (31 vs 5), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.6) and better current form.

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

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

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