Xhaka vs Rice

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

Xhaka
Xhaka
Sunderland · MID · £5.5
13
projected points / 5 GW
Hold50%
IPS (A)FUL (H)BRE (A)ARS (H)MCI (A)
Rice
Rice
Arsenal · MID · £7.5
17
projected points / 5 GW
Hold50%
COV (H)AVL (A)CHE (H)SUN (A)BHA (A)
Stat by stat
£5.5Price£7.5
124Total points184
0.0Form0.0
3.6Points / game5.1
6.2%Owned22.1%
2901Minutes3093
1Goals4
6Assists9
1.01xG3.15
3.73xA7.32
138.1ICT215.4
3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2
13Projected pts17
The verdict

Rice comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 13), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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