Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 15 points for Ajer and 18 for Davis, so Davis 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.

Ajer vs Davis

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Davis by 3 projected points.

Ajer

BRENTFORD · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Davis

IPSWICH TOWN · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

FUL (H)MCI (A)NFO (H)HUL (A)BOU (H)

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.0

27Total points26

4.7Form5.7

4.5Points / game4.3

3.7%Owned7.7%

540Minutes540

1Goals2

0Assists2

0.38xG1.64

0.08xA0.47

18.8ICT32.5

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

15Projected pts18

The verdict

Davis comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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