Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for Xhaka and 20 for Cunha, so Cunha 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 Cunha

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Cunha by 3 projected points.

Xhaka

SUNDERLAND · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Cunha

MAN UTD · MID · £8.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy71%

IPS (H)EVE (A)MCI (H)FUL (A)TOT (H)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£8.0

12Total points11

6.0Form5.5

6.0Points / game5.5

4.6%Owned8.9%

180Minutes158

0Goals0

1Assists2

0.00xG0.35

0.39xA0.36

5.0ICT6.9

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

17Projected pts20

The verdict

Cunha comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (20 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 — Cunha is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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