Bundesliga 25/26
VfB Stuttgart
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
81.5
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
87.6
Capability identity 82.4 · complete 93.9
Identity
Possession
Confidence 87%
Strongest capability
100.0
Ball Carrying
Biggest gap
16.6
Tempo Control · score 17.3 / target 78
This squad is well suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite rest defence, Elite combination play. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum ball retention; Below-minimum rotational flexibility.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Angelo Stiller
Good Carrier
Primary creator
Chris Führich
Elite Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Ermedin Demirović
Great Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
-5.7%
LHS lean
No structural gaps in current XI.
Style (season — fixed)
Bundesliga 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 VfB Stuttgart — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P89
3/19
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P94
2/19
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P6
18/19
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P11
17/19
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P11
16/19
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P28
13/19
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P83
4/19
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 12.7% of goals
0.116
9 of 19 · P56 · league med 0.114
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
56.5%
2 of 19 · P94 · league med 47.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
23.5%
18 of 19 · P6 · league med 29.4
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
6.2%
17 of 19 · P11 · league med 7.9
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
57.7%
3 of 19 · P89 · league med 48
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
4.2%
16 of 19 · P11 · league med 5.5
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
11.8%
12 of 19 · P39 · league med 12.1
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-6.1
15 of 19 · P22 · league med -1
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
166.2
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
4 of 19 · P83 · league med 140
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
25.4
5 of 19 · P78 · league med 28.3
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
24.5
11 of 19 · P44 · league med 24.2
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 18.3 · ground 31.8
54.4%
1 of 19 · P100 · league med 49.9
Game State
Historical next-goal tendency · lead protection · chasing response — same engine as Match Preview
34 matches · 100% coverage
Level
HIGH57 entries · 1484 min in state
Goal timing
When goals arrive across the match clock · scored % · conceded % · net per window
34 of 34 matches
Scored %
8%
0-15
17%
16-30
21%
31-45
13%
46-60
10%
61-75
31%
76-90+
Conceded %
12%
0-15
12%
16-30
22%
31-45
10%
46-60
8%
61-75
35%
76-90+
Net / match (window only)
0.00
0-15
+0.18
16-30
+0.12
31-45
+0.12
46-60
+0.09
61-75
+0.15
76-90+
71 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 (-6.1); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (-6.1); 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.
Paris Saint-Germain
Ligue 1
Closest axes
Closest on Set pieces (P6 vs P10), Assisted creation (P94 vs P100), Directness (P11 vs P20).
Brighton & Hove Albion
PL 25/26
Closest axes
Closest on Box threat (P28 vs P26), Press proxy (P83 vs P89), Transitions (P11 vs P5).
Barcelona
La Liga
Closest axes
Closest on Transitions (P11 vs P11), Assisted creation (P94 vs P95), Set pieces (P6 vs P11).