Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 3 points for Fofana and 18 for Xhaka, 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.

Fofana vs Xhaka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Xhaka by 16 projected points.

Fofana

SUNDERLAND · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Sell64%

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Xhaka

SUNDERLAND · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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Stat by stat

£5.5Price£5.5

0Total points15

0.0Form7.5

0.0Points / game7.5

0.0%Owned4.6%

0Minutes180

0Goals0

0Assists1

0.00xG0.00

0.00xA0.45

0.0ICT12.8

3.4Avg FDR (5)3.4

3Projected pts18

The verdict

Xhaka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (18 vs 3), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.4) and better current form.

Sell — the projection, fixtures or minutes do not support keeping Fofana.

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

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