Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 8 points for Thomas and 0 for Saliba, so Thomas 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 Saliba

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Thomas by 8 projected points.

Thomas

Coventry City · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

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

Saliba

Arsenal · DEF · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Sell92%

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

Stat by stat

£4.0Price£6.0

1Total points0

1.0Form0.0

1.0Points / game0.0

8.1%Owned0.3%

90Minutes0

0Goals0

0Assists0

0.09xG0.00

0.01xA0.00

0.0ICT0.0

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

8Projected pts0

The verdict

Thomas comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (8 vs 0), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping Saliba.

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