Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 4 points for Crooks and 23 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.

Crooks vs Xhaka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Xhaka by 19 projected points.

Crooks

Hull City · MID · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Hold57%

MUN (H)COV (A)AVL (H)CHE (A)NEW (A)

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£4.5Price£5.5

2Total points9

2.0Form9.0

2.0Points / game9.0

0.7%Owned4.5%

90Minutes90

0Goals0

0Assists1

0.00xG0.00

0.00xA0.09

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

4Projected pts23

The verdict

Xhaka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (23 vs 4), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

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

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

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