Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Virgil and 3 for Mendy, 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 Mendy

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Virgil by 13 projected points.

Virgil

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £6.4

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

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

Mendy

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.1

projected points / 5 GW

Sell94%

FUL (A)BRE (H)IPS (H)ARS (A)BHA (H)

Stat by stat

£6.4Price£4.1

29Total points28

4.0Form1.5

4.1Points / game5.6

15.4%Owned5.5%

630Minutes339

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.31xG0.62

0.10xA0.00

18.6ICT19.6

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

16Projected pts3

The verdict

Virgil comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (16 vs 3), 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.

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping Mendy.

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