Newcastle United · 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
79.9
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
82.5
Capability identity 87.1 · complete 87.3
Identity
Balanced
Confidence 25%
Strongest capability
100.0
Box Occupation
Biggest gap
52.4
Recovery Pace · score 45.1 / target 68
This squad is well suited to balanced football because it combines Elite secondary box runs, Elite box occupation, Elite reading. Main limitations: Limited recovery pace; Limited counterpress; Limited width.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Sandro Tonali
Good Box Crasher
Updated by swap
Primary creator
Bruno Guimarães
Good Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary threat
Harvey Barnes
Great Raumdeuter
Side bias (current XI)
-11.9%
LHS lean
Was -20.1%
No structural gaps in current XI.
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 Newcastle United — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P41
24/40
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P13
35/40
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P90
5/40
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P44
23/40
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P31
28/40
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P97
2/40
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P64
15/40
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 17.2% of goals
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32 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
45.0%
35 of 40 · P13 · league med 51.2
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
34.3%
5 of 40 · P90 · league med 25.5
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
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23 of 40 · P44 · league med 8.4
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
49.1%
24 of 40 · P41 · league med 50
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
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28 of 40 · P31 · league med 7.9
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
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32 of 40 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-18.8
35 of 40 · P13 · league med -2.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
149.1
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
15 of 40 · P64 · league med 147.2
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
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9 of 40 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
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9 of 40 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Overall duel win rate
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32 of 40 · P0 · league med 0
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team season lean (+18.8) favors this flank and Anthony Elanga 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 (-18.8) but Anthony Gordon 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.