Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 23 points for Xhaka and 6 for Rayan, 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 Rayan

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Xhaka by 17 projected points.

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Rayan

Bournemouth · MID · £6.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

MCI (A)EVE (H)NEW (A)BRE (H)LIV (H)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£6.5

9Total points2

9.0Form2.0

9.0Points / game2.0

4.4%Owned2.8%

90Minutes88

0Goals0

1Assists0

0.00xG0.04

0.09xA0.03

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.6

23Projected pts6

The verdict

Xhaka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (23 vs 6), 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.

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

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