Maitland-Niles or Ajayi?

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

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Ajayi by 1 projected points.

Maitland-Niles

EVERTON · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

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

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.2

26Total points30

4.3Form1.3

5.2Points / game4.3

1.5%Owned13.6%

308Minutes603

1Goals1

1Assists0

0.06xG0.66

0.74xA0.03

16.5ICT15.6

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

15Projected pts15

The verdict

Ajayi comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (15 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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