Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 18 points for Slater 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.

Slater vs Xhaka

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

Slater

Hull City · MID · £4.5

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

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

6Total points9

6.0Form9.0

6.0Points / game9.0

3.1%Owned4.4%

90Minutes90

0Goals0

1Assists1

0.00xG0.00

0.44xA0.09

0.0ICT0.0

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.2

18Projected pts23

The verdict

Xhaka comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (23 vs 18), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.2) and better current form.

Buy — Slater 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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