Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for Ayari and 18 for Rice, so Rice 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.

Ayari vs Rice

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

Ayari

BRIGHTON · MID · £5.4

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

CRY (H)LIV (A)MCI (A)BRE (H)HUL (A)

Rice

ARSENAL · MID · £7.3

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

NFO (A)EVE (H)LIV (A)HUL (H)NEW (A)

Stat by stat

£5.4Price£7.3

31Total points34

6.3Form5.0

5.2Points / game4.9

0.4%Owned10.9%

500Minutes591

2Goals0

1Assists4

1.10xG0.32

0.20xA1.15

17.2ICT29.4

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

17Projected pts18

The verdict

Rice comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 17), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

Buy — Ayari is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

Buy — Rice is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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