Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 15 points for Ajayi 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.

Ajayi vs Silva

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Silva by 2 projected points.

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.2

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

BRE (H)IPS (H)ARS (A)BHA (H)CRY (A)

Silva

BOURNEMOUTH · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

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

Stat by stat

£4.2Price£5.0

34Total points29

2.3Form5.3

4.2Points / game3.6

13.0%Owned0.7%

693Minutes720

1Goals0

0Assists0

0.66xG1.30

0.03xA0.35

16.5ICT27.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

15Projected pts17

The verdict

Silva comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

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

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

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