Maitland-Niles or Ajayi?

Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 3 points for Maitland-Niles and 21 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 18 projected points.

Maitland-Niles

EVERTON · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell64%

MUN (H)TOT (A)IPS (H)HUL (A)CHE (H)

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.1

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

AVL (H)CHE (A)NEW (A)EVE (H)FUL (A)

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.1

0Total points20

0.0Form10.0

0.0Points / game10.0

0.0%Owned7.8%

0Minutes153

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.00xG0.52

0.00xA0.00

0.0ICT9.5

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.2

3Projected pts21

The verdict

Ajayi comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (21 vs 3), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping Maitland-Niles.

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

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