Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Bassey and 17 for Silva, so Silva 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.

Bassey vs Silva

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

Bassey

FULHAM · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Silva

BOURNEMOUTH · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

MUN (A)LEE (H)IPS (A)NFO (H)FUL (A)

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£5.0

33Total points29

6.0Form5.3

4.1Points / game3.6

1.2%Owned0.7%

720Minutes720

0Goals0

1Assists0

0.31xG1.30

0.13xA0.35

21.6ICT27.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

16Projected pts17

The verdict

Silva comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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