World Cup 2026
Germany
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
80.6
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
70.1
Capability identity 81.8 · complete 86.0
Identity
Possession
Confidence 72%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
19.2
Tempo Control · score 20 / target 78
This squad is well suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite width, Elite first-phase circulation. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Limited box defending.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Felix Nmecha
Good Box Crasher
Primary creator
Aleksandar Pavlović
Average Carrier
Primary threat
Kai Havertz
Good Target Man
Side bias (current XI)
+9.1%
RHS lean
Was +9.6%
Structural gaps
- Nico Schlotterbeck·CBInsufficient 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 Germany — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P98
2/48
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P57
21/48
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P21
37/48
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P36
31/48
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P2
47/48
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P72
14/48
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P100
1/48
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
0.161
4 of 48 · P94 · 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
51.2%
21 of 48 · P57 · league med 49.5
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
22.5%
37 of 48 · P21 · league med 27
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
3.8%
31 of 48 · P36 · league med 5.6
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
65.5%
2 of 48 · P98 · league med 49.8
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
2.8%
47 of 48 · P2 · league med 4.4
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
13.6%
10 of 48 · P81 · league med 12.5
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+8.6
12 of 48 · P77 · league med 0.9
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
243.5
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
1 of 48 · P100 · league med 130.3
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
15.0
4 of 48 · P94 · league med 23.7
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
15.5
9 of 48 · P83 · league med 22
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 12.8 · ground 39.2
47.2%
41 of 48 · P15 · 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 season lean (+8.6) favors this flank and Leroy Sané is an on-ball creator type — overload feeds the primary chance creator.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.