Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 12 points for Bentancur and 14 for Gakpo, so Gakpo 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.

Bentancur vs Gakpo

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Gakpo by 2 projected points.

Bentancur

SPURS · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

MUN (A)COV (H)CHE (A)CRY (H)LEE (A)

Gakpo

LIVERPOOL · MID · £7.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

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

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£7.2

15Total points32

4.0Form5.0

3.0Points / game6.4

0.2%Owned12.4%

370Minutes370

0Goals1

0Assists3

0.02xG0.64

0.12xA1.71

12.6ICT35.2

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.4

12Projected pts14

The verdict

Gakpo comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (14 vs 12), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

Buy — Bentancur 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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