Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 4 points for Costinha and 17 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.

Costinha vs Ajayi

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Ajayi by 13 projected points.

Costinha

BRIGHTON · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell78%

SUN (A)CRY (H)LIV (A)MCI (A)BRE (H)

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.2

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.2

4Total points27

1.0Form2.3

0.8Points / game5.4

0.0%Owned14.0%

68Minutes423

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.12xG0.66

0.30xA0.01

5.4ICT14.1

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

4Projected pts17

The verdict

Ajayi comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 4), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping Costinha.

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

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