World Cup 2026
Ghana
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
55.6
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
42.7
Capability identity 60.6 · complete 67.1
Identity
Vertical / Transition
Confidence 100%
Strongest capability
87.4
Recovery Defending
Biggest gap
20.4
Recovery Pace · score 24.7 / target 88
This squad is only partially suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Strong secondary box runs. Main limitations: Below-minimum recovery pace; Below-minimum primary goalscoring; Below-minimum tempo control.
- · Reading depends heavily on one player (Jerome Opoku).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Thomas Partey
Average Box Crasher
Primary creator
Jordan Ayew
No strong role tiers
Primary threat
Antoine Semenyo
Average Target Man
Side bias (current XI)
-11.5%
LHS lean
Structural gaps
- Derrick Luckassen·CBInsufficient data
- Iñaki Williams·DMInsufficient data
- Kwasi Sibo·RWInsufficient 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 Ghana — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P9
44/48
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P28
34/48
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P40
29/48
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P79
10/48
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P81
9/48
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P53
22/48
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P6
45/48
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
0.111
22 of 48 · P53 · 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
43.5%
34 of 48 · P28 · league med 49.5
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
26.1%
29 of 48 · P40 · league med 27
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
8.7%
10 of 48 · P79 · league med 5.6
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
36.2%
44 of 48 · P9 · league med 49.8
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
6.0%
9 of 48 · P81 · league med 4.4
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
15.8%
3 of 48 · P96 · league med 12.5
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-11.8
45 of 48 · P6 · league med 0.9
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
98.8
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
45 of 48 · P6 · league med 130.3
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
22.2
19 of 48 · P62 · league med 23.7
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
20.0
19 of 48 · P62 · league med 22
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 10.5 · ground 34.0
48.0%
35 of 48 · P21 · league med 50.3
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team season lean (+11.8) favors this flank and Jordan Ayew is an on-ball creator type — overload feeds the primary chance creator.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
No wide player assigned on this flank.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.