Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 21 points for Tarkowski and 16 for Ajer, so Tarkowski 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.

Tarkowski vs Ajer

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

Tarkowski

EVERTON · DEF · £6.2

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Ajer

BRENTFORD · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

LIV (H)HUL (A)NFO (H)BHA (A)EVE (H)

Stat by stat

£6.2Price£4.5

46Total points27

8.5Form6.5

7.7Points / game4.5

18.4%Owned3.8%

540Minutes540

1Goals1

1Assists0

0.18xG0.32

0.05xA0.08

25.0ICT26.6

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

21Projected pts16

The verdict

Tarkowski comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (21 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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