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

Castagne vs Ajayi

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

Castagne

FULHAM · DEF · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

COV (A)AVL (A)NEW (H)MCI (A)BOU (H)

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.2

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£4.2

36Total points30

5.3Form1.0

5.1Points / game4.3

1.2%Owned13.1%

578Minutes603

0Goals1

2Assists0

0.71xG0.66

0.52xA0.03

24.6ICT16.5

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

18Projected pts15

The verdict

Castagne comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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