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UEFA Champions League 25/26

Club Brugge KV

4-2-3-1First-choice XI · 9 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

85.8

Mean primary-role quality of this XI

Synergy

89.5

Capability identity 95.4 · complete 95.5

Identity

Balanced

Confidence 25%

Strongest capability

100.0

Deep Progression

Biggest gap

51.2

Recovery Pace · score 44.2 / target 68

This squad is exceptionally suited to balanced football because it combines Elite isolation, Elite deep progression, Elite box occupation. Main limitations: Limited recovery pace; Average central playmaking.

Personnel (live)

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

Progression hub

Aleksandar Stanković

Good Ball Winner

Updated by swap

Primary creator

Carlos Forbs

Great Link Forward

Primary threat

Christos Tzolis

Great Playmaking Winger

Side bias (current XI)

+0.5%

RHS lean

Was -3.1%

No structural gaps in current XI.

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 Club Brugge KV — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.

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  • Possession

    Ball possession vs league

    P46

    22/40

  • Assisted creation

    Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross

    P79

    9/40

  • Set pieces

    Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP

    P46

    22/40

  • Transitions

    Fast-break shot share

    P49

    21/40

  • Directness

    Accurate long balls / passes

    P49

    21/40

  • Box threat

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

    P67

    14/40

  • Press proxy

    Defensive actions per opp possession

    P36

    26/40

Dashed ring = league median (P50)

Attack shape

Attack →

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

Mean xG / shot

Set-piece goals 28.1% of goals

34 of 40 · P0 · league med 0

How chances are created

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

Assisted57.5%(119)
Corner17.4%(36)
Self-created10.6%(22)
Fast break8.2%(17)
Set piece4.3%(9)
Free kick1.0%(2)
Throw-in SP1.0%(2)

Assisted shot %

% of shots after a teammate pass/cross

57.5%

9 of 40 · P79 · league med 51.2

Set-piece shot %

Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces

23.7%

22 of 40 · P46 · league med 25.5

Fast-break shot %

Share of shots from transitions

21 of 40 · P49 · league med 8.4

On the ball

Possession

Avg ball possession

49.9%

22 of 40 · P46 · league med 50

Long-ball rate

Accurate long balls / passes

21 of 40 · P49 · league med 7.9

Final-third entries

Final-third entries / passes

34 of 40 · P0 · league med 0

Side bias

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

-10.5

30 of 40 · P26 · league med -2.2

Without the ball

Defensive actions / opp poss

Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession

140.3

medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA

26 of 40 · P36 · league med 147.2

Clearances / match

Team clearances per game

7 of 40 · P100 · league med 0

Opp touches in box

Opponent penalty-area touches / match

7 of 40 · P100 · league med 0

Duel win %

Overall duel win rate

34 of 40 · P0 · league med 0

Cross-layer insights (interpretive)

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

left flankmixedHugo Vetlesen

Team leans left (+10.5) with a mixed wide profile on the flank.

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

right flankcross_field_creatorCarlos Forbs

Team overload is elsewhere (-10.5) but Carlos Forbs 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.

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