World Cup 2026
Ecuador
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
76.6
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
58.9
Capability identity 83.4 · complete 85.8
Identity
Possession
Confidence 72%
Strongest capability
100.0
Defensive Coverage
Biggest gap
30.5
Tempo Control · score 31.8 / target 78
This squad is well suited to possession football because it combines Excellent wide playmaking, Excellent counterpress, Elite central playmaking. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Limited rotational flexibility; Average width.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Moisés Caicedo
Good Box-to-Box Midfielder
Primary creator
John Yeboah
Good Duelist Winger
Primary threat
Enner Valencia
Good Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
-6%
LHS lean
Structural gaps
- Joel Ordóñez·CBInsufficient data
- Alan Franco·RBInsufficient data
- Nilson Angulo·LWInsufficient data
Style (season — fixed)
World Cup 2026 · 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 Ecuador — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P77
12/48
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P64
18/48
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P57
21/48
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P55
22/48
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P15
41/48
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P68
16/48
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P89
6/48
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 50.0% of goals
0.119
16 of 48 · P66 · league med 0.11
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
54.7%
18 of 48 · P64 · league med 49.5
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
28.3%
21 of 48 · P57 · league med 27
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
5.7%
22 of 48 · P55 · league med 5.6
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
55.8%
12 of 48 · P77 · league med 49.8
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
3.4%
41 of 48 · P15 · league med 4.4
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
15.3%
4 of 48 · P94 · league med 12.5
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-8.7
43 of 48 · P11 · league med 0.9
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
172.9
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
6 of 48 · P89 · league med 130.3
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
21.0
15 of 48 · P72 · league med 23.7
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
22.8
28 of 48 · P43 · league med 22
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 12.5 · ground 35.8
47.5%
40 of 48 · P17 · league med 50.3
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 overload is elsewhere (-8.7) but John Yeboah 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.