Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 18 points for Davis and 15 for Mendy, so Davis 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.

Davis vs Mendy

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

Davis

IPSWICH TOWN · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

FUL (H)MCI (A)NFO (H)HUL (A)BOU (H)

Mendy

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.1

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Stat by stat

£4.0Price£4.1

26Total points25

5.7Form0.3

4.3Points / game6.2

7.7%Owned6.2%

540Minutes249

2Goals1

2Assists0

1.64xG0.32

0.47xA0.00

32.5ICT16.4

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.2

18Projected pts15

The verdict

Davis comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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