Maitland-Niles or Bassey?

Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 15 points for Maitland-Niles and 15 for Bassey, so Bassey 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 Bassey

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Bassey by 0 projected points.

Maitland-Niles

EVERTON · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

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

Bassey

FULHAM · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.5

26Total points25

4.3Form5.3

5.2Points / game3.6

1.5%Owned1.0%

308Minutes630

1Goals0

1Assists1

0.06xG0.28

0.74xA0.12

16.5ICT17.9

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.0

15Projected pts15

The verdict

Bassey comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (15 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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