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

Araujo vs Mendy

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

Araujo

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Mendy

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

AVL (H)CHE (A)NEW (A)EVE (H)FUL (A)

Stat by stat

£5.4Price£4.0

9Total points16

3.0Form5.3

3.0Points / game8.0

2.1%Owned5.5%

123Minutes121

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.00xG0.29

0.05xA0.00

2.2ICT12.0

2.8Avg FDR (5)3.2

9Projected pts17

The verdict

Mendy comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 9), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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