Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for Scott and 17 for Xhaka, so Xhaka 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.

Scott vs Xhaka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Xhaka by 1 projected points.

Scott

BOURNEMOUTH · MID · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

EVE (H)NEW (A)BRE (H)LIV (H)CHE (A)

Xhaka

SUNDERLAND · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

FUL (H)BRE (A)ARS (H)MCI (A)BHA (H)

Stat by stat

£6.0Price£5.5

14Total points9

7.0Form4.5

7.0Points / game9.0

1.5%Owned4.7%

176Minutes90

1Goals0

0Assists1

0.26xG0.00

0.29xA0.09

1.6ICT5.0

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.2

16Projected pts17

The verdict

Xhaka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and a stronger underlying profile.

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

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

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