Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 21 points for Rogers and 17 for Xhaka, so Rogers 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.

Rogers vs Xhaka

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Rogers by 4 projected points.

Rogers

Chelsea · MID · £7.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Xhaka

Sunderland · MID · £5.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

Stat by stat

£7.5Price£5.5

8Total points9

8.0Form9.0

8.0Points / game9.0

24.6%Owned4.5%

81Minutes90

1Goals0

0Assists1

0.64xG0.00

0.12xA0.09

0.0ICT0.0

3.0Avg FDR (5)3.2

21Projected pts17

The verdict

Rogers comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (21 vs 17), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and a stronger underlying profile.

Buy — Rogers 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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