N.Williams or Virgil?

Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for N.Williams and 15 for Virgil, 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 Virgil

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours N.Williams by 2 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)

Virgil

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £6.4

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

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

Stat by stat

£5.0Price£6.4

31Total points29

4.0Form1.3

3.9Points / game4.1

6.2%Owned15.1%

713Minutes630

1Goals0

1Assists0

0.96xG0.31

1.09xA0.10

33.2ICT23.1

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.4

17Projected pts15

The verdict

N.Williams comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 15), 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.

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

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