Bayer 04 Leverkusen · Bundesliga · Champions League — pick a competition below (same club, separate player pools)
Bundesliga 25/26
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
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
85.2
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
87.6
Capability identity 87.8 · complete 95.9
Identity
Possession
Confidence 87%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
32.9
Tempo Control · score 34.3 / target 78
This squad is well suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite recovery pace, Elite first-phase circulation. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Below-minimum occupation.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Aleix García
Elite Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary creator
Nathan Tella
Great Wide Runner
Primary threat
Patrik Schick
Elite Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
+0.3%
RHS lean
No structural gaps in current XI.
Style (season — fixed)
Bundesliga 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 Bayer 04 Leverkusen — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P94
2/19
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P67
7/19
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P17
16/19
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P78
5/19
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P0
19/19
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P39
11/19
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P94
2/19
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 23.5% of goals
0.125
4 of 19 · P78 · league med 0.114
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
48.7%
7 of 19 · P67 · league med 47.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
25.0%
16 of 19 · P17 · league med 29.4
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
10.3%
5 of 19 · P78 · league med 7.9
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
59.2%
2 of 19 · P94 · league med 48
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
3.9%
19 of 19 · P0 · league med 5.5
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
10.2%
18 of 19 · P0 · league med 12.1
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-1.4
11 of 19 · P44 · league med -1
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
173.7
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
2 of 19 · P94 · league med 140
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
21.4
2 of 19 · P94 · league med 28.3
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
23.3
8 of 19 · P61 · league med 24.2
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 12.6 · ground 31.3
51.7%
2 of 19 · P94 · league med 49.9
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team side bias near central (-1.4); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (-1.4); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.