Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 23 points for Xhaka and 38 for Saka, so Saka 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.

Xhaka vs Saka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Saka by 15 projected points.

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Saka

Arsenal · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

COV (H)AVL (A)CHE (H)SUN (A)BHA (A)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£9.5

9Total points9

9.0Form9.0

9.0Points / game9.0

4.4%Owned9.7%

90Minutes67

0Goals1

1Assists0

0.00xG0.64

0.09xA0.08

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

23Projected pts38

The verdict

Saka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (38 vs 23), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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