Premier League 25/26
Crystal Palace
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
82.7
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
79.9
Capability identity 86.0 · complete 91.9
Identity
Vertical / Transition
Confidence 65%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
38.8
Tempo Control · score 27.5 / target 58
This squad is well suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Elite primary goalscoring, Elite width, Elite secondary box runs. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Limited central progression; Limited isolation.
- · Primary Goalscoring depends heavily on one player (Jean-Philippe Mateta).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Adam Wharton
Good Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary creator
Yéremy Pino
Great Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Jean-Philippe Mateta
Elite Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
-4.9%
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 Crystal Palace — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P32
14/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P5
19/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P58
9/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P84
4/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P63
8/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P84
4/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P37
13/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 26.8% of goals
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10 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
39.5%
19 of 20 · P5 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
34.3%
9 of 20 · P58 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
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4 of 20 · P84 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
45.9%
14 of 20 · P32 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
5.1%
8 of 20 · P63 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
13.5%
10 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+2.2
9 of 20 · P58 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
135.7
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
13 of 20 · P37 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
33.7
11 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
25.2
11 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 19.0 · ground 31.7
49.1%
10 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
No wide player assigned on this flank.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (+2.2); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.