Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Hall and 13 for Araujo, 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 Araujo

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Hall by 3 projected points.

Hall

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.3

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

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

Araujo

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

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

Stat by stat

£5.3Price£5.4

40Total points33

3.0Form3.7

5.0Points / game4.1

20.4%Owned3.3%

719Minutes493

1Goals0

1Assists0

0.27xG0.02

0.97xA0.08

40.2ICT11.0

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.4

16Projected pts13

The verdict

Hall comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (16 vs 13), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and a stronger underlying profile.

Buy — Hall 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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