Athletic Club · La Liga · Champions League — pick a competition below (same club, separate player pools)
LaLiga 25/26
Athletic Club
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
76.6
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
80.0
Capability identity 83.9 · complete 84.4
Identity
Balanced
Confidence 25%
Strongest capability
100.0
Secondary Box Runs
Biggest gap
37.1
Central Playmaking · score 38.6 / target 78
This squad is well suited to balanced football because it combines Elite secondary box runs, Elite defensive coverage, Excellent rest defence. Main limitations: Below-minimum central playmaking; Below-minimum ball retention; Limited recovery pace.
- · Reading depends heavily on one player (Aitor Paredes).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta
Great Duel Destroyer
Primary creator
Nico Williams
Great Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Gorka Guruzeta
Great Target Man
Side bias (current XI)
+1.8%
RHS lean
No structural gaps in current XI.
Style (season — fixed)
LaLiga 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 Athletic Club — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P47
11/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P68
7/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P42
12/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P0
20/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P53
10/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P47
11/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P63
8/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 16.3% of goals
0.098
16 of 20 · P21 · league med 0.109
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
53.2%
7 of 20 · P68 · league med 50
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
26.6%
12 of 20 · P42 · league med 27.5
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
3.3%
20 of 20 · P0 · league med 6.8
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
48.6%
11 of 20 · P47 · league med 50.2
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
5.7%
10 of 20 · P53 · league med 5.7
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
15.5%
2 of 20 · P95 · league med 12.2
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+3.9
9 of 20 · P58 · league med 3.4
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
148.9
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
8 of 20 · P63 · league med 143.8
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
21.2
3 of 20 · P89 · league med 24.9
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
16.0
1 of 20 · P100 · league med 23.1
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 14.9 · ground 32.5
46.7%
18 of 20 · P5 · league med 49.9
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team side bias near central (+3.9); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (+3.9); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.