Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 18 points for Virgil and 11 for Dunk, so Virgil 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.

Virgil vs Dunk

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Virgil by 7 projected points.

Virgil

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

MCI (H)BRE (A)BHA (H)ARS (H)CRY (A)

Dunk

BRIGHTON · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

SUN (A)CRY (H)LIV (A)MCI (A)BRE (H)

Stat by stat

£6.5Price£4.5

25Total points22

7.3Form5.7

5.0Points / game5.5

16.2%Owned1.5%

450Minutes360

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.25xG0.03

0.08xA0.09

17.4ICT14.3

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.4

18Projected pts11

The verdict

Virgil comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 11), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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