Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 13 points for N.Williams and 17 for Silva, so Silva 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.

N.Williams vs Silva

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Silva by 4 projected points.

N.Williams

NOTT'M FOREST · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold50%

IPS (A)BRE (A)MCI (H)BOU (A)CHE (H)

Silva

BOURNEMOUTH · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

MUN (A)LEE (H)IPS (A)NFO (H)FUL (A)

Stat by stat

£5.0Price£5.0

31Total points29

4.0Form5.3

3.9Points / game3.6

6.2%Owned0.7%

713Minutes720

1Goals0

1Assists0

0.96xG1.30

1.11xA0.35

33.2ICT27.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

13Projected pts17

The verdict

Silva comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 13), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

Hold — N.Williams is fine to keep, but there is no urgent case to bring him in.

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

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