Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 8 points for Thomas and 42 for White, so White 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.

Thomas vs White

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours White by 34 projected points.

Thomas

Coventry City · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

ARS (A)HUL (H)MCI (A)BHA (H)NFO (A)

White

Arsenal · DEF · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

COV (H)AVL (A)CHE (H)SUN (A)BHA (A)

Stat by stat

£4.0Price£5.5

1Total points11

1.0Form11.0

1.0Points / game11.0

8.1%Owned4.5%

90Minutes90

0Goals0

0Assists1

0.09xG0.09

0.01xA0.21

0.0ICT0.0

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

8Projected pts42

The verdict

White comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (42 vs 8), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

Buy — White is one of the better DEF options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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