Gibbs-White or Gakpo?

Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 23 points for Gibbs-White and 14 for Gakpo, so Gibbs-White 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 Gakpo

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Gibbs-White by 9 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)

Gakpo

LIVERPOOL · MID · £7.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

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

Stat by stat

£8.0Price£7.2

28Total points32

4.3Form5.0

5.6Points / game6.4

15.7%Owned12.4%

450Minutes370

1Goals1

2Assists3

1.56xG0.64

1.42xA1.71

40.6ICT35.2

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.4

23Projected pts14

The verdict

Gibbs-White comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (23 vs 14), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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