Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 31 points for Mendy and 5 for Smith, so Mendy 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.

Mendy vs Smith

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Mendy by 27 projected points.

Mendy

Hull City · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

MUN (H)COV (A)AVL (H)CHE (A)NEW (A)

Smith

Bournemouth · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell71%

MCI (A)EVE (H)NEW (A)BRE (H)LIV (H)

Stat by stat

£4.0Price£4.5

15Total points1

15.0Form1.0

15.0Points / game1.0

1.5%Owned0.1%

63Minutes90

1Goals0

0Assists0

0.28xG0.00

0.00xA0.00

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.6

31Projected pts5

The verdict

Mendy comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (31 vs 5), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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