Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 23 points for Xhaka and 17 for O.Dango, 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.

Xhaka vs O.Dango

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Xhaka by 6 projected points.

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

O.Dango

Brentford · MID · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

TOT (H)LEE (A)SUN (H)BOU (A)CHE (H)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£6.5

9Total points3

9.0Form3.0

9.0Points / game3.0

4.5%Owned1.2%

90Minutes66

0Goals0

1Assists0

0.00xG0.05

0.09xA0.29

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

23Projected pts17

The verdict

Xhaka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (23 vs 17), 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.

Hold — O.Dango is fine to keep, but there is no urgent case to bring him in.

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