Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 27 points for Palmer and 17 for Xhaka, so Palmer 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.

Palmer vs Xhaka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Palmer by 10 projected points.

Palmer

Chelsea · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£9.5Price£5.5

13Total points9

13.0Form9.0

13.0Points / game9.0

11.5%Owned4.5%

82Minutes90

1Goals0

1Assists1

0.24xG0.00

0.21xA0.09

0.0ICT0.0

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.2

27Projected pts17

The verdict

Palmer comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (27 vs 17), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

Buy — Palmer 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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