Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 17 points for Xhaka and 12 for Lavia, 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 Lavia

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

Xhaka

SUNDERLAND · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Lavia

CHELSEA · MID · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Hold64%

BHA (H)ARS (A)HUL (H)BRE (A)BOU (H)

Stat by stat

£5.5Price£5.0

13Total points7

6.5Form3.5

6.5Points / game3.5

4.7%Owned0.1%

135Minutes109

0Goals1

1Assists0

0.00xG0.75

0.17xA0.03

5.0ICT6.9

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

17Projected pts12

The verdict

Xhaka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (17 vs 12), 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 — Lavia is fine to keep, but there is no urgent case to bring him in.

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