McBurnie or Kostoulas?

Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 15 points for McBurnie and 18 for Kostoulas, so Kostoulas 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.

McBurnie vs Kostoulas

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Kostoulas by 4 projected points.

McBurnie

HULL CITY · FWD · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

EVE (H)FUL (A)BRE (H)IPS (H)ARS (A)

Kostoulas

BRIGHTON · FWD · £5.6

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£5.6

13Total points28

2.5Form10.0

2.6Points / game5.6

1.9%Owned4.7%

441Minutes353

0Goals2

2Assists3

1.23xG1.35

0.13xA0.06

23.0ICT26.1

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.4

15Projected pts18

The verdict

Kostoulas comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and a stronger underlying profile.

Buy — McBurnie is one of the better FWD options for the next 5 gameweeks.

Buy — Kostoulas is one of the better FWD options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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