Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 18 points for Virgil and 16 for Giles, 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 Giles

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

Virgil

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Giles

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£6.5Price£4.0

25Total points24

7.3Form4.0

5.0Points / game4.8

16.2%Owned2.9%

450Minutes444

0Goals0

0Assists1

0.25xG0.02

0.08xA0.43

17.4ICT22.2

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

18Projected pts16

The verdict

Virgil comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 16), 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.

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

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