Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 15 points for Egan and 13 for Araujo, so Egan 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.

Egan vs Araujo

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

Egan

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.1

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

BRE (H)IPS (H)ARS (A)BHA (H)CRY (A)

Araujo

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

BHA (H)ARS (H)CRY (A)MUN (H)EVE (A)

Stat by stat

£4.1Price£5.4

35Total points33

3.0Form3.7

4.4Points / game4.1

7.1%Owned3.3%

707Minutes493

0Goals0

0Assists0

0.17xG0.02

0.16xA0.08

19.4ICT11.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.4

15Projected pts13

The verdict

Egan comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (15 vs 13), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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