Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for Castagne and 14 for Botman, so Castagne 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 Botman

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Castagne by 3 projected points.

Castagne

FULHAM · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

HUL (H)COV (A)AVL (A)NEW (H)MCI (A)

Botman

NEWCASTLE · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£5.0

28Total points26

3.0Form5.0

4.7Points / game3.7

1.2%Owned0.8%

498Minutes630

0Goals1

2Assists0

0.67xG0.21

0.50xA0.22

20.6ICT23.2

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.2

17Projected pts14

The verdict

Castagne comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 14), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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