Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 23 points for Gibbs-White and 29 for Saka, so Saka 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.

Gibbs-White vs Saka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Saka by 6 projected points.

Gibbs-White

NOTT'M FOREST · MID · £8.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

CRY (A)ARS (H)IPS (A)BRE (A)MCI (H)

Saka

ARSENAL · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

LEE (H)NFO (A)EVE (H)LIV (A)HUL (H)

Stat by stat

£8.0Price£9.5

28Total points32

4.3Form5.8

5.6Points / game6.4

15.7%Owned13.7%

450Minutes416

1Goals3

2Assists0

1.56xG3.22

1.42xA0.98

40.6ICT52.1

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

23Projected pts29

The verdict

Saka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (29 vs 23), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

Buy — Gibbs-White is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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

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