Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 23 points for Xhaka and 26 for Jensen, so Jensen 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 Jensen

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

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Jensen

Brentford · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£5.5

9Total points6

9.0Form6.0

9.0Points / game6.0

4.4%Owned0.2%

90Minutes66

0Goals0

1Assists1

0.00xG0.09

0.09xA0.55

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

23Projected pts26

The verdict

Jensen comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (26 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 — Jensen is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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