Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 3 points for Mendy and 14 for Botman, so Botman 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 Botman

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Botman by 11 projected points.

Mendy

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.1

projected points / 5 GW

Sell94%

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

Botman

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

AVL (H)CRY (A)EVE (H)FUL (A)ARS (H)

Stat by stat

£4.1Price£5.0

28Total points26

1.0Form5.0

5.6Points / game3.7

5.8%Owned0.8%

339Minutes630

1Goals1

0Assists0

0.62xG0.21

0.00xA0.22

19.6ICT23.2

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

3Projected pts14

The verdict

Botman comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (14 vs 3), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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