World Cup 2026
England
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
90.6
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
87.3
Capability identity 88.7 · complete 95.2
Identity
Possession
Confidence 72%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
19.0
Rotational Flexibility · score 19.8 / target 78
This squad is well suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite first-phase circulation, Elite counterpress. Main limitations: Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Below-minimum tempo control; Limited recovery pace.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Declan Rice
Great Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary creator
Noni Madueke
Good Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Harry Kane
Good Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
-1.1%
LHS lean
No structural gaps in current XI.
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 England — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P68
16/48
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P51
24/48
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P45
26/48
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P66
17/48
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P28
35/48
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P91
5/48
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P49
25/48
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 14.3% of goals
0.110
24 of 48 · P51 · 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
49.5%
24 of 48 · P51 · league med 49.5
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
26.3%
26 of 48 · P45 · league med 27
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
7.1%
17 of 48 · P66 · league med 5.6
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
54.1%
16 of 48 · P68 · league med 49.8
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
3.9%
35 of 48 · P28 · league med 4.4
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
12.7%
22 of 48 · P55 · league med 12.5
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-1.3
29 of 48 · P40 · league med 0.9
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
128.7
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
25 of 48 · P49 · league med 130.3
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
25.1
30 of 48 · P38 · league med 23.7
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
20.6
20 of 48 · P60 · league med 22
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 13.9 · ground 37.6
53.0%
4 of 48 · P91 · 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 side bias near central (-1.3); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.