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Premier League 25/26

Bournemouth

4-2-3-1First-choice XI · 36 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

80.7

Mean primary-role quality of this XI

Synergy

54.5

Capability identity 76.5 · complete 80.7

Identity

Vertical / Transition

Confidence 75%

Strongest capability

100.0

Box Occupation

Biggest gap

25.2

Recovery Pace · score 30.5 / target 88

This squad is moderately suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Elite primary goalscoring, Elite secondary box runs, Elite ball carrying. Main limitations: Below-minimum recovery pace; Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum counterattack threat.

Personnel (live)

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

Progression hub

Alex Scott

Great Carrier

Primary creator

Marcus Tavernier

Great Playmaking Winger

Primary threat

Evanilson

Good Poacher

Side bias (current XI)

-13.7%

LHS lean

No structural gaps in current XI.

Style (season — fixed)

Premier 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 Bournemouth — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.

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  • Possession

    Ball possession vs league

    P47

    11/20

  • Assisted creation

    Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross

    P58

    9/20

  • Set pieces

    Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP

    P26

    15/20

  • Transitions

    Fast-break shot share

    P74

    6/20

  • Directness

    Accurate long balls / passes

    P68

    6/20

  • Box threat

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

    P0

    20/20

  • Press proxy

    Defensive actions per opp possession

    P79

    5/20

Dashed ring = league median (P50)

Attack shape

Attack →

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

Mean xG / shot

Set-piece goals 25.9% of goals

7 of 20 · P0 · league med 0

How chances are created

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

Assisted49.0%(258)
Self-created15.2%(80)
Corner12.5%(66)
Fast break7.6%(40)
Throw-in SP5.9%(31)
Set piece4.6%(24)
Free kick4.0%(21)
Penalty1.1%(6)

Assisted shot %

% of shots after a teammate pass/cross

49.0%

9 of 20 · P58 · league med 48.1

Set-piece shot %

Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces

27.0%

15 of 20 · P26 · league med 32.1

Fast-break shot %

Share of shots from transitions

6 of 20 · P74 · league med 7.1

On the ball

Possession

Avg ball possession

50.2%

11 of 20 · P47 · league med 50.3

Long-ball rate

Accurate long balls / passes

4.9%

6 of 20 · P68 · league med 8.8

Final-third entries

Final-third entries / passes

14.3%

7 of 20 · P0 · league med 0

Side bias

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

-8.9

18 of 20 · P11 · league med -1.2

Without the ball

Defensive actions / opp poss

Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession

157.8

medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA

5 of 20 · P79 · league med 146.5

Clearances / match

Team clearances per game

30.4

14 of 20 · P100 · league med 0

Opp touches in box

Opponent penalty-area touches / match

28.4

14 of 20 · P100 · league med 0

Duel win %

Won/match · aerial 16.6 · ground 35.0

48.4%

7 of 20 · P0 · league med 0

Cross-layer insights (interpretive)

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

left flankreinforcingMarcus Tavernier

Team season lean (+8.9) favors this flank and Marcus Tavernier is an on-ball creator type — overload feeds the primary chance creator.

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

right flankmixedAdam Smith

Opposite-flank team lean with mixed wide player on right.

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

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