Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 23 points for Xhaka and 16 for Clarke, 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 Clarke

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Xhaka by 7 projected points.

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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Clarke

Ipswich Town · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

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Stat by stat

£5.5Price£5.5

9Total points7

9.0Form7.0

9.0Points / game7.0

4.4%Owned0.3%

90Minutes19

0Goals1

1Assists0

0.00xG0.08

0.09xA0.00

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

23Projected pts16

The verdict

Xhaka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (23 vs 16), 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 — Clarke is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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