Branthwaite or Bassey?

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

Branthwaite vs Bassey

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

Branthwaite

EVERTON · DEF · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

CHE (H)ARS (A)NEW (A)COV (H)BRE (A)

Bassey

FULHAM · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£4.5

31Total points25

4.0Form5.3

4.4Points / game3.6

2.5%Owned1.0%

630Minutes630

0Goals0

0Assists1

0.29xG0.28

0.05xA0.12

26.9ICT17.9

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.0

16Projected pts15

The verdict

Branthwaite comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (16 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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