Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 18 points for Barnes and 17 for Xhaka, so Barnes 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.

Barnes vs Xhaka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Barnes by 1 projected points.

Barnes

NEWCASTLE · MID · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy85%

BOU (H)LEE (A)HUL (H)COV (A)AVL (H)

Xhaka

SUNDERLAND · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£6.0Price£5.5

17Total points18

5.7Form6.0

5.7Points / game6.0

1.2%Owned4.6%

270Minutes225

1Goals0

1Assists1

0.23xG0.00

0.06xA0.56

5.3ICT12.8

2.6Avg FDR (5)3.4

18Projected pts17

The verdict

Barnes comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 17), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 2.6) and a stronger underlying profile.

Buy — Barnes is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

Buy — Xhaka is one of the better MID options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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