Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 3 points for Mendy and 15 for Bassey, so Bassey 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 Bassey

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Bassey by 12 projected points.

Mendy

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.1

projected points / 5 GW

Sell94%

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

Bassey

FULHAM · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

HUL (H)COV (A)AVL (A)NEW (H)MCI (A)

Stat by stat

£4.1Price£4.5

28Total points25

1.0Form5.3

5.6Points / game3.6

5.8%Owned1.0%

339Minutes630

1Goals0

0Assists1

0.62xG0.28

0.00xA0.12

19.6ICT17.9

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

3Projected pts15

The verdict

Bassey comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (15 vs 3), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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