Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 15 points for Castagne and 19 for Egan, so Egan 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.

Castagne vs Egan

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Egan by 4 projected points.

Castagne

FULHAM · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

SUN (A)CRY (H)LIV (A)MUN (H)IPS (A)

Egan

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.0

12Total points17

6.0Form8.5

6.0Points / game8.5

0.5%Owned2.3%

157Minutes180

0Goals0

2Assists0

0.09xG0.00

0.18xA0.00

8.9ICT4.6

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

15Projected pts19

The verdict

Egan comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (19 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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