Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Bassey and 15 for Virgil, so Bassey 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.

Bassey vs Virgil

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Bassey by 1 projected points.

Bassey

FULHAM · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

COV (A)AVL (A)NEW (H)MCI (A)BOU (H)

Virgil

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £6.4

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

BHA (H)ARS (H)CRY (A)MUN (H)EVE (A)

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£6.4

33Total points29

6.0Form1.3

4.1Points / game4.1

1.1%Owned15.1%

720Minutes630

0Goals0

1Assists0

0.33xG0.31

0.13xA0.10

21.6ICT23.1

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.4

16Projected pts15

The verdict

Bassey comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (16 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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