Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 7 points for Diouf and 18 for Thomas, 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.

Diouf vs Thomas

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Thomas by 11 projected points.

Diouf

BRENTFORD · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell64%

AVL (A)LIV (H)HUL (A)NFO (H)BHA (A)

Thomas

COVENTRY CITY · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

NEW (H)TOT (A)FUL (H)SUN (H)EVE (A)

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.0

3Total points28

1.0Form4.3

1.0Points / game4.7

0.1%Owned8.7%

129Minutes527

0Goals0

0Assists0

0.11xG0.49

0.02xA0.31

0.7ICT18.4

3.2Avg FDR (5)2.8

7Projected pts18

The verdict

Thomas comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 7), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.8) and better current form.

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

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

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