Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 21 points for Hall and 18 for Virgil, 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 Virgil

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

Hall

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.3

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Virgil

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Stat by stat

£5.3Price£6.5

31Total points25

5.7Form7.3

6.2Points / game5.0

17.3%Owned16.2%

449Minutes450

1Goals0

1Assists0

0.25xG0.25

0.79xA0.08

30.2ICT17.4

2.8Avg FDR (5)3.4

21Projected pts18

The verdict

Hall comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (21 vs 18), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.8) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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