Premier League 25/26
West Ham United
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
77.1
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
80.6
Capability identity 87.6 · complete 93.2
Identity
Vertical / Transition
Confidence 100%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Playmaking
Biggest gap
30.4
Defensive Transition · score 31.7 / target 78
This squad is well suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Elite ball retention, Elite ball carrying, Elite secondary box runs. Main limitations: Below-minimum defensive transition; Limited tempo control; Limited through-ball threat.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Mateus Fernandes
Elite Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary creator
Jarrod Bowen
Great Link Forward
Primary threat
Callum Wilson
Great Channel Runner
Side bias (current XI)
+4.3%
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 West Ham United — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P5
19/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P32
14/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P42
12/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P95
2/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P79
4/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P79
5/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P11
18/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 32.6% of goals
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11 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
43.8%
14 of 20 · P32 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
29.8%
12 of 20 · P42 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
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2 of 20 · P95 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
42.6%
19 of 20 · P5 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
5.6%
4 of 20 · P79 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
13.7%
11 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+9.3
1 of 20 · P100 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
125.8
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
18 of 20 · P11 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
29.1
10 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
29.5
10 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 14.8 · ground 34.6
50.4%
11 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
HIGH56 entries · 1735 min in state
Goal timing
When goals arrive across the match clock · scored % · conceded % · net per window
38 of 38 matches
Scored %
20%
0-15
7%
16-30
20%
31-45
9%
46-60
17%
61-75
28%
76-90+
Conceded %
17%
0-15
6%
16-30
17%
31-45
15%
46-60
22%
61-75
23%
76-90+
Net / match (window only)
-0.05
0-15
-0.03
16-30
-0.05
31-45
-0.16
46-60
-0.16
61-75
-0.05
76-90+
46 scored · 65 conceded · stoppage (90+) in 76–90+
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team overload is elsewhere (+9.3) but Crysencio Summerville is an on-ball creator stationed on the weaker flank — may need local possession to impact.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team season lean (+9.3) favors this flank and Jarrod Bowen is an on-ball creator type — overload feeds the primary chance creator.
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.
Auxerre
Ligue 1
Closest axes
Closest on Transitions (P95 vs P100), Directness (P79 vs P90), Set pieces (P42 vs P55).
1. FC Köln
Bundesliga
Closest axes
Closest on Press proxy (P11 vs P6), Transitions (P95 vs P89), Directness (P79 vs P72).
Crystal Palace
PL 25/26
Closest axes
Closest on Box threat (P79 vs P84), Transitions (P95 vs P84), Directness (P79 vs P63).