Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 21 points for Szoboszlai and 17 for Xhaka, so Szoboszlai 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.

Szoboszlai vs Xhaka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Szoboszlai by 4 projected points.

Szoboszlai

LIVERPOOL · MID · £7.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

NFO (H)IPS (A)FUL (H)BOU (A)MCI (H)

Xhaka

SUNDERLAND · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£7.0Price£5.5

10Total points9

5.0Form4.5

5.0Points / game9.0

43.4%Owned4.7%

158Minutes90

1Goals0

0Assists1

0.93xG0.00

0.33xA0.09

11.9ICT5.0

2.8Avg FDR (5)3.2

21Projected pts17

The verdict

Szoboszlai comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (21 vs 17), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.8) and better current form.

Buy — Szoboszlai 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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