Maitland-Niles or Thomas?

Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Maitland-Niles and 18 for Thomas, so Thomas 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.

Maitland-Niles vs Thomas

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

Maitland-Niles

EVERTON · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

HUL (A)CHE (H)ARS (A)NEW (A)COV (H)

Thomas

COVENTRY CITY · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

NEW (H)TOT (A)FUL (H)SUN (H)EVE (A)

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.0

25Total points24

6.0Form3.0

6.2Points / game4.8

1.5%Owned8.8%

254Minutes437

1Goals0

1Assists0

0.06xG0.49

0.73xA0.30

11.4ICT18.4

3.2Avg FDR (5)2.8

16Projected pts18

The verdict

Thomas comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.8) and a stronger underlying profile.

Buy — Maitland-Niles is one of the better DEF options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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

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