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Rice or Minteh: Who To Buy? | FPL Comparison

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Midfielder

Rice

Arsenal, ARS

Midfielder

Minteh 🏥

Brighton, BHA

🏆 Rice wins 5 of 10 of data comparisons

7.5M

Cost

6.0M

Total Points

3.0

Points Per Game

0.0

17.7%

Selected By

0.1%

Goals Scored

Assists

Clean Sheets

Minutes Played

0.0

ICT Index

0.0

3.0

Form

0.0

💰 Rice is the value pick - 0.4 pts per £m (Rice 0.4 vs Minteh 0.0)

🎯 Minteh is your differential (0.1% owned) - Rice is the template pick at 17.7%

Fixtures

Arsenal

AVL 4 (A) - 2026-08-31
CHE 4 (H) - 2026-09-06
SUN 3 (A) - 2026-09-12
BHA 3 (A) - 2026-09-19
LEE 2 (H) - 2026-10-10

Brighton

CHE 4 (A) - 2026-08-30
LEE 2 (H) - 2026-09-05
COV 2 (A) - 2026-09-13
ARS 4 (H) - 2026-09-19
SUN 3 (A) - 2026-10-10

📅 Minteh has the easier run over the next 5 (avg difficulty 3.0 vs 3.2)

FPL Advisor Recommendation

Rice

37.8

Minteh

17.5

High Confidence

Recommendation: Transfer in Rice

Key Factors:

Better current form (3.0 vs 0.0)
Better value for money
More secure playing time

Rice (Arsenal, £7.5m, 3 points) is the better FPL pick over Minteh (Brighton, £6.0m, 0 points) as of Gameweek 2, and Minteh also has the easier next five fixtures (3.0 vs 3.2 average difficulty).