Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 18 points for Hall and 14 for Egan, 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.

Hall vs Egan

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Hall by 4 projected points.

Hall

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.3

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Egan

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.1

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Stat by stat

£5.3Price£4.1

31Total points27

4.3Form1.0

5.2Points / game4.5

20.7%Owned7.3%

539Minutes527

1Goals0

1Assists0

0.27xG0.09

0.83xA0.16

34.8ICT17.1

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

18Projected pts14

The verdict

Hall comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 14), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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