Manchester City · PL 25/26 · Champions League — pick a competition below (same club, separate player pools)
UEFA Champions League 25/26
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
82.8
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
81.9
Capability identity 78.0 · complete 93.0
Identity
Possession
Confidence 87%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
0.0
Rotational Flexibility · score 0 / target 78
This squad is moderately suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite first-phase circulation, Elite width. Main limitations: Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum central playmaking.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Rodri
Good Carrier
Primary creator
Phil Foden
Good Box Crasher
Primary threat
Erling Haaland
Great Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
-65.1%
LHS lean
Structural gaps
Style (season — fixed)
UEFA Champions 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 Manchester City — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P92
4/40
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P74
11/40
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P21
31/40
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P13
35/40
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P0
40/40
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P59
17/40
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P77
10/40
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 12.5% of goals
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12 of 40 · 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
56.4%
11 of 40 · P74 · league med 51.2
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
20.5%
31 of 40 · P21 · league med 25.5
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
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35 of 40 · P13 · league med 8.4
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
58.7%
4 of 40 · P92 · league med 50
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
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40 of 40 · P0 · league med 7.9
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
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12 of 40 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-44.7
39 of 40 · P3 · league med -2.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
157.1
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
10 of 40 · P77 · league med 147.2
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
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29 of 40 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
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29 of 40 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Overall duel win rate
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12 of 40 · P0 · league med 0
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team season lean (+44.7) favors this flank and Rayan Cherki is an on-ball creator type — overload feeds the primary chance creator.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team overload is elsewhere (-44.7) but Jérémy Doku 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.