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Ligue 1 25/26

Auxerre

5-4-1First-choice XI · 25 starts

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

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Bench

Team Synergy

Team strength and Synergy (synergy-v3) for this XI. Both update on pitch swaps.

Team strength

69.4

Mean primary-role quality of this XI

Synergy

65.0

Capability identity 75.7 · complete 81.4

Identity

Vertical / Transition

Confidence 100%

Strongest capability

100.0

Recovery Defending

Biggest gap

43.2

Tempo Control · score 30.6 / target 58

This squad is moderately suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Excellent ball retention, Excellent width, Strong defensive transition. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum recovery pace; Below-minimum central progression.

  • · Primary Goalscoring depends heavily on one player (Sékou Mara).
  • · Central Playmaking depends heavily on one player (Kévin Danois).
  • · Box Occupation depends heavily on one player (Sékou Mara).

Personnel (live)

Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.

Progression hub

Kévin Danois

Great Deep-Lying Playmaker

Primary creator

Danny Namaso

No strong role tiers

Primary threat

Sékou Mara

Good Target Man

Side bias (current XI)

+1.8%

RHS lean

No structural gaps in current XI.

Style (season — fixed)

Ligue 1 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 Auxerre — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.

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  • Possession

    Ball possession vs league

    P30

    15/21

  • Assisted creation

    Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross

    P15

    18/21

  • Set pieces

    Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP

    P55

    10/21

  • Transitions

    Fast-break shot share

    P100

    1/21

  • Directness

    Accurate long balls / passes

    P90

    3/21

  • Box threat

    In-box shot share (six-yard + box)

    P60

    9/21

  • Press proxy

    Defensive actions per opp possession

    P40

    13/21

Dashed ring = league median (P50)

Attack shape

Attack →

Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).

Mean xG / shot

Set-piece goals 32.4% of goals

0.098

17 of 21 · P20 · league med 0.112

How chances are created

Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.

Assisted42.4%(156)
Corner18.8%(69)
Self-created15.5%(57)
Fast break13.0%(48)
Set piece5.2%(19)
Throw-in SP2.4%(9)
Free kick1.4%(5)
Penalty1.4%(5)

Assisted shot %

% of shots after a teammate pass/cross

42.4%

18 of 21 · P15 · league med 50.3

Set-piece shot %

Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces

27.7%

10 of 21 · P55 · league med 26.1

Fast-break shot %

Share of shots from transitions

13.0%

1 of 21 · P100 · league med 7.4

On the ball

Possession

Avg ball possession

43.9%

15 of 21 · P30 · league med 47

Long-ball rate

Accurate long balls / passes

6.2%

3 of 21 · P90 · league med 4.9

Final-third entries

Final-third entries / passes

14.1%

3 of 21 · P90 · league med 11.2

Side bias

Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)

+4.3

8 of 21 · P65 · league med 1.2

Without the ball

Defensive actions / opp poss

Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession

138.6

medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA

13 of 21 · P40 · league med 141.8

Clearances / match

Team clearances per game

22.0

10 of 21 · P55 · league med 22.5

Opp touches in box

Opponent penalty-area touches / match

21.1

8 of 21 · P65 · league med 22.1

Duel win %

Won/match · aerial 12.3 · ground 38.1

50.6%

6 of 21 · P75 · league med 50.1

Cross-layer insights (interpretive)

Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.

left flankbalancedDanny Namaso

Team side bias near central (+4.3); flank fit is not strongly directional.

Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.

right flankunknown

No wide player assigned on this flank.

Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.

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