Premier League 25/26
Sunderland
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
72.9
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
76.6
Capability identity 82.6 · complete 88.8
Identity
Vertical / Transition
Confidence 60%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Playmaking
Biggest gap
35.3
Recovery Pace · score 42.6 / target 88
This squad is well suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Elite ball retention, Excellent primary goalscoring, Elite ball carrying. Main limitations: Below-minimum recovery pace; Below-minimum counterattack threat; Limited tempo control.
- · Primary Goalscoring depends heavily on one player (Brian Brobbey).
- · Overlap Support depends heavily on one player (Nordi Mukiele).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Granit Xhaka
Elite Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary creator
Enzo Le Fée
Great Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Brian Brobbey
Great Target Man
Side bias (current XI)
+1.5%
RHS lean
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 Sunderland — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P21
16/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P16
17/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P79
5/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P32
14/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P95
2/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P42
12/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P0
19/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 23.8% of goals
—
8 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
42.0%
17 of 20 · P16 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
36.8%
5 of 20 · P79 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
—
14 of 20 · P32 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
44.8%
16 of 20 · P21 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
5.4%
2 of 20 · P95 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
14.8%
8 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+2.6
8 of 20 · P63 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
123.1
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
19 of 20 · P0 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
30.4
13 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
28.6
13 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 17.3 · ground 31.0
50.4%
8 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
HIGH54 entries · 2055 min in state
Goal timing
When goals arrive across the match clock · scored % · conceded % · net per window
38 of 38 matches
Scored %
5%
0-15
17%
16-30
10%
31-45
14%
46-60
24%
61-75
31%
76-90+
Conceded %
17%
0-15
10%
16-30
21%
31-45
17%
46-60
19%
61-75
17%
76-90+
Net / match (window only)
-0.16
0-15
+0.05
16-30
-0.16
31-45
-0.05
46-60
+0.03
61-75
+0.13
76-90+
42 scored · 48 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 (+2.6); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (+2.6); 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.
Everton
PL 25/26
Closest axes
Closest on Directness (P95 vs P100), Possession (P21 vs P16), Assisted creation (P16 vs P26).
1. FC Heidenheim
Bundesliga
Closest axes
Closest on Directness (P95 vs P94), Box threat (P42 vs P39), Set pieces (P79 vs P83).
Lecce
Serie A
Closest axes
Closest on Directness (P95 vs P95), Set pieces (P79 vs P79), Assisted creation (P16 vs P11).