Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 9 points for Araujo and 17 for Thiaw, so Thiaw 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.

Araujo vs Thiaw

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Thiaw by 9 projected points.

Araujo

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

IPS (A)FUL (H)BOU (A)MCI (H)BRE (A)

Thiaw

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

BOU (H)LEE (A)HUL (H)COV (A)AVL (H)

Stat by stat

£5.4Price£5.0

9Total points9

3.0Form3.0

3.0Points / game4.5

2.1%Owned2.2%

123Minutes180

0Goals0

0Assists0

0.00xG0.00

0.05xA0.02

2.2ICT4.6

2.8Avg FDR (5)2.6

9Projected pts17

The verdict

Thiaw comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 9), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.6) and better current form.

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

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

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