F.Kadıoğlu or Mendy?

Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 13 points for F.Kadıoğlu and 16 for Mendy, so Mendy 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.

F.Kadıoğlu vs Mendy

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Mendy by 3 projected points.

F.Kadıoğlu

BRIGHTON · DEF · £4.4

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

SUN (A)CRY (H)LIV (A)MCI (A)BRE (H)

Mendy

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.1

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

EVE (H)FUL (A)BRE (H)IPS (H)ARS (A)

Stat by stat

£4.4Price£4.1

13Total points25

4.3Form3.0

3.2Points / game6.2

1.6%Owned6.3%

332Minutes249

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.12xG0.32

0.13xA0.00

12.2ICT16.4

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

13Projected pts16

The verdict

Mendy comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (16 vs 13), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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