Branthwaite or Ajayi?

Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 18 points for Branthwaite and 16 for Ajayi, so Branthwaite 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.

Branthwaite vs Ajayi

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

Branthwaite

EVERTON · DEF · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£4.2

27Total points27

7.0Form1.0

5.4Points / game5.4

2.5%Owned13.9%

450Minutes423

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.17xG0.66

0.02xA0.01

22.5ICT14.1

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

18Projected pts16

The verdict

Branthwaite comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

Buy — Branthwaite 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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