Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 21 points for Mbeumo and 23 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.

Mbeumo vs Xhaka

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

Mbeumo

Man Utd · MID · £8.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

HUL (A)IPS (H)EVE (A)MCI (H)FUL (A)

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£8.0Price£5.5

2Total points9

2.0Form9.0

2.0Points / game9.0

38.0%Owned4.5%

90Minutes90

0Goals0

0Assists1

0.50xG0.00

0.23xA0.09

0.0ICT0.0

2.8Avg FDR (5)3.2

21Projected pts23

The verdict

Xhaka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (23 vs 21), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

Buy — Mbeumo 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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