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Olympique de Marseille · Ligue 1 · Champions League — pick a competition below (same club, separate player pools)

Ligue 1 25/26

Olympique de Marseille

4-2-3-1First-choice XI · 34 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

82.0

Mean primary-role quality of this XI

Synergy

89.7

Capability identity 80.9 · complete 91.8

Identity

Possession

Confidence 87%

Strongest capability

100.0

Deep Progression

Biggest gap

13.3

Tempo Control · score 13.9 / target 78

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

Personnel (live)

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

Progression hub

Pierre-Emile Højbjerg

Great Carrier

Primary creator

Matt O'Riley

Good Creator

Primary threat

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Elite Poacher

Side bias (current XI)

-6.6%

LHS lean

No structural gaps in current XI.

Style (season — fixed)

Ligue 1 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 Olympique de Marseille — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.

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  • Possession

    Ball possession vs league

    P95

    2/21

  • Assisted creation

    Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross

    P85

    4/21

  • Set pieces

    Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP

    P50

    11/21

  • Transitions

    Fast-break shot share

    P40

    12/21

  • Directness

    Accurate long balls / passes

    P15

    18/21

  • Box threat

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

    P75

    6/21

  • Press proxy

    Defensive actions per opp possession

    P85

    4/21

Dashed ring = league median (P50)

Attack shape

Attack →

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

Mean xG / shot

Set-piece goals 11.1% of goals

0.120

5 of 21 · P75 · league med 0.112

How chances are created

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

Assisted54.2%(278)
Corner16.2%(83)
Self-created11.3%(58)
Fast break6.8%(35)
Set piece5.5%(28)
Free kick3.5%(18)
Penalty1.6%(8)
Throw-in SP1.0%(5)

Assisted shot %

% of shots after a teammate pass/cross

54.2%

4 of 21 · P85 · league med 50.3

Set-piece shot %

Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces

26.1%

11 of 21 · P50 · league med 26.1

Fast-break shot %

Share of shots from transitions

6.8%

12 of 21 · P40 · league med 7.4

On the ball

Possession

Avg ball possession

57.0%

2 of 21 · P95 · league med 47

Long-ball rate

Accurate long balls / passes

3.7%

18 of 21 · P15 · league med 4.9

Final-third entries

Final-third entries / passes

11.0%

13 of 21 · P40 · league med 11.2

Side bias

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

-7.0

20 of 21 · P5 · league med 1.2

Without the ball

Defensive actions / opp poss

Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession

165.0

medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA

4 of 21 · P85 · league med 141.8

Clearances / match

Team clearances per game

18.6

4 of 21 · P85 · league med 22.5

Opp touches in box

Opponent penalty-area touches / match

19.9

6 of 21 · P75 · league med 22.1

Duel win %

Won/match · aerial 9.7 · ground 31.8

48.6%

16 of 21 · P20 · league med 50.1

Cross-layer insights (interpretive)

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

left flankunknown

No wide player assigned on this flank.

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

right flankbalancedIgor Paixão

Team side bias near central (-7.0); flank fit is not strongly directional.

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

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