Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 6 points for Bard and 16 for Ajer, so Ajer 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.

Bard vs Ajer

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Ajer by 10 projected points.

Bard

LEEDS · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell64%

MUN (H)SUN (A)BOU (A)TOT (H)CHE (A)

Ajer

BRENTFORD · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.5

1Total points30

0.0Form5.3

1.0Points / game4.3

0.0%Owned3.9%

18Minutes630

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.00xG0.32

0.00xA0.26

1.5ICT26.6

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

6Projected pts16

The verdict

Ajer comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (16 vs 6), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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