Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 31 points for Ndiaye and 23 for Xhaka, so Ndiaye 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.

Ndiaye vs Xhaka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Ndiaye by 8 projected points.

Ndiaye

Everton · MID · £6.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

CRY (H)BOU (A)MUN (H)TOT (A)IPS (H)

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£6.0Price£5.5

9Total points9

9.0Form9.0

9.0Points / game9.0

15.9%Owned4.4%

90Minutes90

0Goals0

1Assists1

0.31xG0.00

0.34xA0.09

0.0ICT0.0

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.2

31Projected pts23

The verdict

Ndiaye comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (31 vs 23), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

Buy — Ndiaye 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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