Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Hall and 15 for Murillo, 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 Murillo

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

Hall

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.3

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

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

Murillo

NOTT'M FOREST · DEF · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

IPS (A)BRE (A)MCI (H)BOU (A)CHE (H)

Stat by stat

£5.3Price£5.5

35Total points27

2.0Form2.0

5.0Points / game3.9

20.4%Owned2.1%

629Minutes629

1Goals0

1Assists1

0.27xG0.92

0.90xA0.56

40.2ICT36.5

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

16Projected pts15

The verdict

Hall comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (16 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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