Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 14 points for Mazraoui and 55 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.

Mazraoui vs Ajayi

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Ajayi by 41 projected points.

Mazraoui

Man Utd · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

HUL (A)IPS (H)EVE (A)MCI (H)FUL (A)

Ajayi

Hull City · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

MUN (H)COV (A)AVL (H)CHE (A)NEW (A)

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.0

1Total points14

1.0Form14.0

1.0Points / game14.0

0.7%Owned1.1%

79Minutes63

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.23xG0.81

0.05xA0.00

0.0ICT0.0

2.8Avg FDR (5)3.2

14Projected pts55

The verdict

Ajayi comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (55 vs 14), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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