Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 11 points for O'Reilly 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.

O'Reilly vs Virgil

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Virgil by 8 projected points.

O'Reilly

MAN CITY · DEF · £6.3

projected points / 5 GW

Sell64%

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

Virgil

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Stat by stat

£6.3Price£6.5

6Total points25

0.7Form7.3

1.5Points / game5.0

10.9%Owned16.2%

163Minutes450

0Goals0

0Assists0

0.87xG0.25

0.43xA0.08

9.0ICT17.4

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.4

11Projected pts18

The verdict

Virgil comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 11), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping O'Reilly.

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

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