Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 12 points for Richards and 40 for Bijol, so Bijol 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.

Richards vs Bijol

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Bijol by 27 projected points.

Richards

Crystal Palace · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

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

Bijol

Leeds · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

NFO (A)BRE (H)BHA (A)NEW (H)CRY (H)

Stat by stat

£5.0Price£5.0

3Total points10

3.0Form10.0

3.0Points / game10.0

0.8%Owned0.4%

90Minutes90

0Goals0

0Assists0

0.00xG0.11

0.00xA0.00

0.0ICT0.0

3.0Avg FDR (5)2.8

12Projected pts40

The verdict

Bijol comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (40 vs 12), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.8) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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