Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 14 points for Kayode and 18 for Virgil, so Virgil 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.

Kayode vs Virgil

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

Kayode

BRENTFORD · DEF · £4.6

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

AVL (A)LIV (H)HUL (A)NFO (H)BHA (A)

Virgil

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£4.6Price£6.5

23Total points25

2.3Form5.3

3.8Points / game5.0

7.6%Owned16.0%

384Minutes450

1Goals0

0Assists0

0.55xG0.25

0.51xA0.08

15.3ICT17.4

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.4

14Projected pts18

The verdict

Virgil comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 14), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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