Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 19 points for Cherki and 22 for Palmer, so Palmer 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.

Cherki vs Palmer

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Palmer by 3 projected points.

Cherki

MAN CITY · MID · £7.8

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

LIV (A)IPS (H)AVL (A)BHA (H)NFO (A)

Palmer

CHELSEA · MID · £9.7

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

BOU (H)EVE (A)TOT (H)MUN (H)SUN (A)

Stat by stat

£7.8Price£9.7

34Total points28

4.5Form3.5

6.8Points / game5.6

28.6%Owned24.2%

302Minutes442

3Goals2

2Assists2

0.72xG1.31

1.54xA0.79

47.3ICT44.1

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.0

19Projected pts22

The verdict

Palmer comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (22 vs 19), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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