Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 23 points for Xhaka and 27 for Gomez, so Gomez 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 Gomez

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

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Gomez

Brighton · MID · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

AVL (H)CHE (A)LEE (H)COV (A)ARS (H)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£5.0

9Total points6

9.0Form6.0

9.0Points / game6.0

4.4%Owned3.9%

90Minutes85

0Goals0

1Assists1

0.00xG0.19

0.09xA0.48

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

23Projected pts27

The verdict

Gomez comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (27 vs 23), 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 — Gomez is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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