Newcastle United · PL 25/26 · Champions League — pick a competition below (same club, separate player pools)
Premier League 25/26
Newcastle United
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
81.7
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
90.6
Capability identity 92.8 · complete 96.8
Identity
Possession
Confidence 50%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
35.2
Tempo Control · score 36.7 / target 78
This squad is exceptionally suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite first-phase circulation, Elite width. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Average recovery pace.
- · Reading depends heavily on one player (Malick Thiaw).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Bruno Guimarães
Great Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary creator
Anthony Gordon
Elite Raumdeuter
Primary threat
Nick Woltemade
Great Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
-8.4%
LHS lean
No structural gaps in current XI.
Style (season — fixed)
Premier 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
P68
7/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P21
16/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P74
6/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P63
8/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P47
11/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P58
9/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P58
9/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 28.3% of goals
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17 of 20 · 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
42.9%
16 of 20 · P21 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
36.4%
6 of 20 · P74 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
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8 of 20 · P63 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
52.6%
7 of 20 · P68 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
4.6%
11 of 20 · P47 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
12.9%
17 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-6.1
17 of 20 · P16 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
148.5
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
9 of 20 · P58 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
26.4
4 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
25.3
4 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 17.5 · ground 32.6
51.1%
17 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team side bias near central (-6.1); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (-6.1); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.