Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 12 points for Castagne and 14 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.

Castagne vs Mendy

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Mendy by 2 projected points.

Castagne

Fulham · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Mendy

Hull City · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.0

6Total points15

6.0Form15.0

6.0Points / game15.0

0.3%Owned1.8%

90Minutes63

0Goals1

2Assists0

0.18xG0.28

0.18xA0.00

0.0ICT0.0

3.6Avg FDR (5)3.2

12Projected pts14

The verdict

Mendy comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (14 vs 12), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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