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

Xhaka vs Palmer

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

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Palmer

Chelsea · MID · £9.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£9.5

9Total points13

9.0Form13.0

9.0Points / game13.0

4.5%Owned11.2%

90Minutes82

0Goals1

1Assists1

0.00xG0.24

0.09xA0.21

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

17Projected pts27

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

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

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