Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 19 points for Van Hecke and 21 for Hall, so Hall 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.

Van Hecke vs Hall

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Hall by 2 projected points.

Van Hecke

SPURS · DEF · £4.9

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

MUN (A)COV (H)CHE (A)CRY (H)LEE (A)

Hall

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.3

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

COV (A)AVL (H)CRY (A)EVE (H)FUL (A)

Stat by stat

£4.9Price£5.3

24Total points31

7.3Form5.7

4.8Points / game6.2

6.6%Owned17.3%

450Minutes449

1Goals1

0Assists1

0.69xG0.25

0.42xA0.79

31.6ICT30.2

3.0Avg FDR (5)2.8

19Projected pts21

The verdict

Hall comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (21 vs 19), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.8) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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