Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for N.Williams and 3 for Mendy, so N.Williams 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.

N.Williams vs Mendy

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours N.Williams by 14 projected points.

N.Williams

NOTT'M FOREST · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Mendy

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.1

projected points / 5 GW

Sell94%

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

Stat by stat

£5.0Price£4.1

31Total points28

4.0Form1.0

3.9Points / game5.6

6.2%Owned5.2%

713Minutes339

1Goals1

1Assists0

0.96xG0.62

1.09xA0.00

33.2ICT19.6

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

17Projected pts3

The verdict

N.Williams comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 3), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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