Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 30 points for Elanga and 23 for Xhaka, so Elanga 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.

Elanga vs Xhaka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Elanga by 7 projected points.

Elanga

Newcastle · MID · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

LIV (H)TOT (A)BOU (H)LEE (A)HUL (H)

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£6.0Price£5.5

10Total points9

10.0Form9.0

10.0Points / game9.0

0.9%Owned4.5%

75Minutes90

1Goals0

0Assists1

0.11xG0.00

0.01xA0.09

0.0ICT0.0

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.2

30Projected pts23

The verdict

Elanga comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (30 vs 23), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

Buy — Elanga 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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