Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for Virgil and 15 for Ajayi, so Virgil 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.

Virgil vs Ajayi

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

Virgil

LIVERPOOL · DEF · £6.4

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

BHA (H)ARS (H)CRY (A)MUN (H)EVE (A)

Ajayi

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.2

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

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

Stat by stat

£6.4Price£4.2

38Total points34

4.3Form2.3

4.8Points / game4.2

15.1%Owned13.0%

720Minutes693

0Goals1

0Assists0

0.31xG0.66

0.11xA0.03

23.1ICT16.5

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

17Projected pts15

The verdict

Virgil comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 15), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

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

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

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