Athletic Club · La Liga · Champions League 25/26 — pick a competition below (same club, separate player pools)
Competition
LaLiga 25/26
Athletic Club
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
74.7
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
78.1
Capability identity 82.7 · complete 83.5
Identity
Balanced
Confidence 25%
Strongest capability
100.0
Secondary Box Runs
Biggest gap
37.1
Central Playmaking · score 38.6 / target 78
This squad is well suited to balanced football because it combines Elite secondary box runs, Elite defensive coverage, Elite box occupation. Main limitations: Below-minimum central playmaking; Below-minimum ball retention; Limited recovery pace.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta
Great Duel Destroyer
Primary creator
Nico Williams
Great Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Gorka Guruzeta
Great Target Man
Side bias (current XI)
+1.8%
RHS lean
No structural gaps in current XI.
Style (season — fixed)
LaLiga 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 Athletic Club — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P47
11/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P68
7/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P42
12/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P0
20/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P53
10/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P47
11/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P63
8/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 16.3% of goals
0.098
16 of 20 · P21 · league med 0.109
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
53.2%
7 of 20 · P68 · league med 50
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
26.6%
12 of 20 · P42 · league med 27.5
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
3.3%
20 of 20 · P0 · league med 6.8
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
48.6%
11 of 20 · P47 · league med 50.2
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
5.7%
10 of 20 · P53 · league med 5.7
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
15.5%
2 of 20 · P95 · league med 12.2
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+3.9
9 of 20 · P58 · league med 3.4
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
148.9
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
8 of 20 · P63 · league med 143.8
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
21.2
3 of 20 · P89 · league med 24.9
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
16.0
1 of 20 · P100 · league med 23.1
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 14.9 · ground 32.5
46.7%
18 of 20 · P5 · league med 49.9
Game State
Historical next-goal tendency · lead protection · chasing response — same engine as Match Preview
38 matches · 100% coverage
Level
HIGH56 entries · 1758 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
12%
16-30
23%
31-45
14%
46-60
12%
61-75
33%
76-90+
Conceded %
16%
0-15
3%
16-30
19%
31-45
21%
46-60
17%
61-75
24%
76-90+
Net / match (window only)
-0.16
0-15
+0.08
16-30
-0.03
31-45
-0.16
46-60
-0.13
61-75
0.00
76-90+
43 scored · 58 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 (+3.9); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (+3.9); flank fit is not strongly directional.
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.
Eintracht Frankfurt
Bundesliga
Closest axes
Closest on Set pieces (P42 vs P44), Press proxy (P63 vs P67), Directness (P53 vs P39).
Fiorentina
Serie A
Closest axes
Closest on Set pieces (P42 vs P37), Press proxy (P63 vs P53), Possession (P47 vs P58).
Lille
Ligue 1
Closest axes
Closest on Directness (P53 vs P55), Assisted creation (P68 vs P65), Press proxy (P63 vs P80).