Premier League 25/26
Brighton & Hove Albion
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
85.2
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
83.0
Capability identity 85.1 · complete 92.1
Identity
Possession
Confidence 87%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
14.7
Tempo Control · score 15.3 / target 78
This squad is well suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite first-phase circulation, Elite width. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Limited ball retention.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Yasin Ayari
Good Carrier
Primary creator
Yankuba Minteh
Elite Wide Runner
Primary threat
Georginio Rutter
Great Box Crasher
Side bias (current XI)
+3.3%
RHS lean
Was +9.5%
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 Brighton & Hove Albion — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P79
5/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P84
4/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P21
16/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P5
19/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P26
14/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P26
15/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P89
3/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 23.1% of goals
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5 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
52.9%
4 of 20 · P84 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
26.9%
16 of 20 · P21 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
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19 of 20 · P5 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
54.0%
5 of 20 · P79 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
4.4%
14 of 20 · P26 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
11.6%
5 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-1.4
11 of 20 · P42 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
162.9
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
3 of 20 · P89 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
23.6
16 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
25.1
16 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 14.8 · ground 34.3
49.1%
5 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
HIGH57 entries · 1601 min in state
Goal timing
When goals arrive across the match clock · scored % · conceded % · net per window
38 of 38 matches
Scored %
17%
0-15
8%
16-30
13%
31-45
13%
46-60
17%
61-75
31%
76-90+
Conceded %
13%
0-15
17%
16-30
24%
31-45
11%
46-60
11%
61-75
24%
76-90+
Net / match (window only)
+0.08
0-15
-0.10
16-30
-0.10
31-45
+0.05
46-60
+0.11
61-75
+0.13
76-90+
52 scored · 46 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 (-1.4); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (-1.4); 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.
Stade Rennais
Ligue 1
Closest axes
Closest on Box threat (P26 vs P30), Directness (P26 vs P30), Assisted creation (P84 vs P75).
VfB Stuttgart
Bundesliga
Closest axes
Closest on Box threat (P26 vs P28), Press proxy (P89 vs P83), Transitions (P5 vs P11).
Paris Saint-Germain
Ligue 1
Closest axes
Closest on Directness (P26 vs P20), Press proxy (P89 vs P100), Set pieces (P21 vs P10).