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UEFA Champions League 25/26

Barcelona

4-2-3-1First-choice XI · 12 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

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

91.7

Mean primary-role quality of this XI

Synergy

92.7

Capability identity 91.7 · complete 99.7

Identity

Possession

Confidence 87%

Strongest capability

100.0

Deep Progression

Biggest gap

36.1

Tempo Control · score 37.6 / target 78

This squad is exceptionally suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite first-phase circulation, Elite counterpress. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Average recovery pace.

  • · Underlap Support depends heavily on one player (Jules Koundé).

Personnel (live)

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

Progression hub

Pedri

Great Carrier

Updated by swap

Primary creator

Lamine Yamal

Great Duelist Winger

Primary threat

Robert Lewandowski

Good Target Man

Side bias (current XI)

+28.8%

RHS lean

Structural gaps

  • Alejandro Balde·LBWeak fit for this slotHe’s in the XI here, but role form / touch map don’t back this position.

Style (season — fixed)

UEFA Champions 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 Barcelona — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.

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  • Possession

    Ball possession vs league

    P97

    2/40

  • Assisted creation

    Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross

    P95

    3/40

  • Set pieces

    Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP

    P3

    39/40

  • Transitions

    Fast-break shot share

    P26

    30/40

  • Directness

    Accurate long balls / passes

    P15

    34/40

  • Box threat

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

    P31

    28/40

  • Press proxy

    Defensive actions per opp possession

    P97

    2/40

Dashed ring = league median (P50)

Attack shape

Attack →

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

Mean xG / shot

Set-piece goals 12.5% of goals

15 of 40 · P0 · league med 0

How chances are created

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

Assisted61.2%(123)
Self-created15.4%(31)
Corner10.4%(21)
Fast break5.5%(11)
Free kick3.5%(7)
Penalty2.0%(4)
Set piece2.0%(4)

Assisted shot %

% of shots after a teammate pass/cross

61.2%

3 of 40 · P95 · league med 51.2

Set-piece shot %

Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces

15.9%

39 of 40 · P3 · league med 25.5

Fast-break shot %

Share of shots from transitions

30 of 40 · P26 · league med 8.4

On the ball

Possession

Avg ball possession

63.4%

2 of 40 · P97 · league med 50

Long-ball rate

Accurate long balls / passes

34 of 40 · P15 · league med 7.9

Final-third entries

Final-third entries / passes

15 of 40 · P0 · league med 0

Side bias

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

+9.4

8 of 40 · P82 · league med -2.2

Without the ball

Defensive actions / opp poss

Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession

190.7

medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA

2 of 40 · P97 · league med 147.2

Clearances / match

Team clearances per game

26 of 40 · P100 · league med 0

Opp touches in box

Opponent penalty-area touches / match

26 of 40 · P100 · league med 0

Duel win %

Overall duel win rate

15 of 40 · P0 · league med 0

Cross-layer insights (interpretive)

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

left flankcross_field_creatorFermín López

Team overload is elsewhere (+9.4) but Fermín López 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.

right flankreinforcingLamine Yamal

Team season lean (+9.4) favors this flank and Lamine Yamal is an on-ball creator type — overload feeds the primary chance creator.

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

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