Premier League 25/26
Aston Villa
Default view is a per-slot first-choice selection in the season’s most-used formation. Swaps recompute personnel and Synergy — style metrics stay on season aggregates.
Interactive pitch
Hover a player for details. Use Side bias or Squad profiles to read the XI. Select bench → slot to swap.
Bench
Team Synergy
Team strength and Synergy (synergy-v3) for this XI. Both update on pitch swaps.
Team strength
86.8
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
86.9
Capability identity 90.6 · complete 96.0
Identity
Possession
Confidence 87%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
36.5
Rotational Flexibility · score 38 / target 78
This squad is exceptionally suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite width, Elite first-phase circulation. Main limitations: Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Below-minimum tempo control; Average occupation.
- · Primary Goalscoring depends heavily on one player (Ollie Watkins).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Youri Tielemans
Great Duel Destroyer
Updated by swap
Primary creator
John McGinn
Great Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Ollie Watkins
Great Shadow Striker
Side bias (current XI)
+3%
RHS lean
Was +1.1%
No structural gaps in current XI.
Style (season — fixed)
Premier League 25/26 · Season aggregates vs the rest of this competition. Click a shot zone to light it on the pitch.
Team identity
League-percentile style fingerprint for Aston Villa — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P74
6/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P68
7/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P47
11/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P42
12/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P11
17/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P5
19/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P47
11/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 32.1% of goals
—
4 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
50.8%
7 of 20 · P68 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
31.1%
11 of 20 · P47 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
—
12 of 20 · P42 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
53.6%
6 of 20 · P74 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
4.4%
17 of 20 · P11 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
10.8%
4 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-1.8
13 of 20 · P37 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
140.3
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
11 of 20 · P47 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
20.9
17 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
24.6
17 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 11.9 · ground 33.5
49.6%
4 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Game State
Historical next-goal tendency · lead protection · chasing response — same engine as Match Preview
38 matches · 100% coverage
Level
HIGH59 entries · 1780 min in state
Goal timing
When goals arrive across the match clock · scored % · conceded % · net per window
38 of 38 matches
Scored %
7%
0-15
11%
16-30
20%
31-45
20%
46-60
18%
61-75
25%
76-90+
Conceded %
18%
0-15
10%
16-30
18%
31-45
20%
46-60
14%
61-75
18%
76-90+
Net / match (window only)
-0.13
0-15
+0.03
16-30
+0.05
31-45
+0.03
46-60
+0.08
61-75
+0.13
76-90+
56 scored · 49 conceded · stoppage (90+) in 76–90+
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team side bias near central (-1.8); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
No wide player assigned on this flank.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Similar teams
Style shape vs top-5 leagues, 25/26 — cosine similarity of the Team Identity radar percentiles (Possession, Assisted creation, Set pieces, Transitions, Directness, Box threat, Press proxy). Formation is context only and does not affect the score.
Real Madrid
La Liga
Closest axes
Closest on Directness (P11 vs P11), Transitions (P42 vs P47), Assisted creation (P68 vs P74).
Girona FC
La Liga
Closest axes
Closest on Press proxy (P47 vs P47), Directness (P11 vs P16), Transitions (P42 vs P47).
Fulham
PL 25/26
Closest axes
Closest on Directness (P11 vs P11), Box threat (P5 vs P11), Press proxy (P47 vs P53).