Napoli · Serie A · Champions League — pick a competition below (same club, separate player pools)
Serie A 25/26
Napoli
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
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Bench
Team Synergy
Team strength and Synergy (synergy-v3) for this XI. Both update on pitch swaps.
Team strength
90.4
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
84.1
Capability identity 77.2 · complete 90.0
Identity
Possession
Confidence 87%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
6.4
Tempo Control · score 6.7 / target 78
This squad is moderately suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite first-phase circulation, Elite deep progression. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Below-minimum recovery pace.
- · Primary Goalscoring depends heavily on one player (Rasmus Højlund).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Scott McTominay
Elite Box Crasher
Primary creator
David Neres
Great Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Rasmus Højlund
Great Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
+1.1%
RHS lean
No structural gaps in current XI.
Style (season — fixed)
Serie A 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 Napoli — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P89
3/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P84
4/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P0
20/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P11
18/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P0
20/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P63
8/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P74
6/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 20.7% of goals
0.105
10 of 20 · P47 · league med 0.105
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
53.3%
4 of 20 · P84 · league med 50
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
23.7%
20 of 20 · P0 · league med 28.8
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
5.0%
18 of 20 · P11 · league med 7.6
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
58.9%
3 of 20 · P89 · league med 50.4
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
3.4%
20 of 20 · P0 · league med 5.2
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
9.8%
20 of 20 · P0 · league med 11.9
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+9.3
2 of 20 · P95 · league med 1.7
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
156.9
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
6 of 20 · P74 · league med 127.3
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
16.4
1 of 20 · P100 · league med 25
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
15.4
2 of 20 · P95 · league med 22.7
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 12.7 · ground 29.6
49.9%
10 of 20 · P53 · league med 49.9
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team overload is elsewhere (+9.3) but Alisson Santos 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.
Team season lean (+9.3) favors this flank and Eljif Elmas is an on-ball creator type — overload feeds the primary chance creator.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.