World Cup 2026
Argentina
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
91.5
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
63.2
Capability identity 86.9 · complete 92.7
Identity
Possession
Confidence 72%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
20.8
Rotational Flexibility · score 21.7 / target 78
This squad is well suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite rest defence, Elite first-phase circulation. Main limitations: Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum counterpress.
- · Central Playmaking depends heavily on one player (Enzo Fernández).
- · Central Progression depends heavily on one player (Enzo Fernández).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Enzo Fernández
Good Box Crasher
Primary creator
Julián Alvarez
Good Raumdeuter
Primary threat
Lionel Messi
Great Link Forward
Side bias (current XI)
+2.3%
RHS lean
Structural gaps
- Thiago Almada·RWInsufficient data
Style (season — fixed)
World Cup 2026 · 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 Argentina — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P83
9/48
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P28
35/48
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P74
13/48
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P79
11/48
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P4
46/48
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P57
21/48
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P91
5/48
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 31.6% of goals
0.137
8 of 48 · P85 · league med 0.11
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
43.5%
35 of 48 · P28 · league med 49.5
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
32.2%
13 of 48 · P74 · league med 27
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
8.7%
11 of 48 · P79 · league med 5.6
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
57.6%
9 of 48 · P83 · league med 49.8
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
2.9%
46 of 48 · P4 · league med 4.4
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
9.2%
45 of 48 · P6 · league med 12.5
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+2.0
22 of 48 · P55 · league med 0.9
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
176.7
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
5 of 48 · P91 · league med 130.3
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
23.1
22 of 48 · P55 · league med 23.7
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
14.9
8 of 48 · P85 · league med 22
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 10.0 · ground 40.2
51.0%
18 of 48 · P62 · league med 50.3
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team side bias near central (+2.0); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
No wide player assigned on this flank.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.