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UEFA Champions League 25/26

Napoli

3-4-2-1First-choice XI · 4 starts

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

68.3

Mean primary-role quality of this XI

Synergy

44.0

Capability identity 76.7 · complete 81.6

Identity

Possession

Confidence 50%

Strongest capability

100.0

Deep Progression

Biggest gap

23.1

Rotational Flexibility · score 24.1 / target 78

This squad is moderately suited to possession football because it combines Elite first-phase circulation, Elite deep progression, Strong ball retention. Main limitations: Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum counterpress.

  • · Primary Goalscoring depends heavily on one player (Rasmus Højlund).
  • · Width depends heavily on one player (Eljif Elmas).
  • · Central Progression depends heavily on one player (Scott McTominay).

Personnel (live)

Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.

Progression hub

Scott McTominay

Great Box Crasher

Primary creator

Scott McTominay

Great Box Crasher

Primary threat

Rasmus Højlund

Good Poacher

Side bias (current XI)

-30.3%

LHS lean

Structural gaps

  • Giovanni Di Lorenzo·LBWeak fit for this slotHe’s in the XI here, but role form / touch map don’t back this position.
  • Leonardo Spinazzola·RBWeak fit for this slotHe’s in the XI here, but role form / touch map don’t back this position.

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 Napoli — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.

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  • Possession

    Ball possession vs league

    P64

    15/40

  • Assisted creation

    Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross

    P54

    19/40

  • Set pieces

    Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP

    P95

    3/40

  • Transitions

    Fast-break shot share

    P21

    32/40

  • Directness

    Accurate long balls / passes

    P18

    32/40

  • Box threat

    In-box shot share (six-yard + box)

    P92

    4/40

  • Press proxy

    Defensive actions per opp possession

    P21

    32/40

Dashed ring = league median (P50)

Attack shape

Attack →

Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).

Mean xG / shot

Set-piece goals 55.6% of goals

2 of 40 · P0 · league med 0

How chances are created

Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.

Assisted51.6%(49)
Corner30.5%(29)
Self-created7.4%(7)
Fast break5.3%(5)
Set piece3.2%(3)
Penalty1.1%(1)
Throw-in SP1.1%(1)

Assisted shot %

% of shots after a teammate pass/cross

51.6%

19 of 40 · P54 · league med 51.2

Set-piece shot %

Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces

34.7%

3 of 40 · P95 · league med 25.5

Fast-break shot %

Share of shots from transitions

32 of 40 · P21 · league med 8.4

On the ball

Possession

Avg ball possession

51.6%

15 of 40 · P64 · league med 50

Long-ball rate

Accurate long balls / passes

32 of 40 · P18 · league med 7.9

Final-third entries

Final-third entries / passes

2 of 40 · P0 · league med 0

Side bias

Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)

-23.3

37 of 40 · P8 · league med -2.2

Without the ball

Defensive actions / opp poss

Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession

132.6

medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA

32 of 40 · P21 · league med 147.2

Clearances / match

Team clearances per game

39 of 40 · P100 · league med 0

Opp touches in box

Opponent penalty-area touches / match

39 of 40 · P100 · league med 0

Duel win %

Overall duel win rate

2 of 40 · P0 · league med 0

Cross-layer insights (interpretive)

Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.

left flankmixedGiovanni Di Lorenzo

Team leans left (+23.3) with a mixed wide profile on the flank.

Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.

right flankunknown

No wide player assigned on this flank.

Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.

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