Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 22 points for De Cuyper and 14 for White, so De Cuyper 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.

De Cuyper vs White

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours De Cuyper by 7 projected points.

De Cuyper

BRIGHTON · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

SUN (A)CRY (H)LIV (A)MCI (A)BRE (H)

White

ARSENAL · DEF · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell64%

LEE (H)NFO (A)EVE (H)LIV (A)HUL (H)

Stat by stat

£5.0Price£5.5

38Total points21

8.5Form0.5

7.6Points / game5.2

28.2%Owned4.8%

423Minutes315

1Goals0

3Assists1

1.55xG0.18

0.67xA0.29

33.8ICT15.2

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.0

22Projected pts14

The verdict

De Cuyper comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (22 vs 14), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping White.

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