Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 32 points for Barry and 23 for Mateta, so Barry 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.

Barry vs Mateta

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Barry by 9 projected points.

Barry

Everton · FWD · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

CRY (H)BOU (A)MUN (H)TOT (A)IPS (H)

Mateta

Crystal Palace · FWD · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

EVE (A)MCI (H)FUL (A)IPS (H)LEE (A)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£6.5

8Total points2

8.0Form2.0

8.0Points / game2.0

1.4%Owned5.7%

78Minutes62

1Goals0

0Assists0

0.44xG0.77

0.08xA0.02

0.0ICT0.0

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.0

32Projected pts23

The verdict

Barry comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (32 vs 23), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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