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Ligue 1 25/26

Olympique Lyonnais

4-2-3-1First-choice XI · 31 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

85.5

Mean primary-role quality of this XI

Synergy

89.6

Capability identity 87.8 · complete 94.7

Identity

Possession

Confidence 58%

Strongest capability

100.0

Deep Progression

Biggest gap

29.5

Rotational Flexibility · score 30.7 / target 78

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

  • · Reading depends heavily on one player (Moussa Niakhaté).

Personnel (live)

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

Progression hub

Tyler Morton

Great Deep-Lying Playmaker

Primary creator

Malick Fofana

Good Duelist Winger

Primary threat

Pavel Šulc

Elite Box Crasher

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

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  • Possession

    Ball possession vs league

    P85

    4/21

  • Assisted creation

    Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross

    P60

    9/21

  • Set pieces

    Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP

    P25

    16/21

  • Transitions

    Fast-break shot share

    P60

    9/21

  • Directness

    Accurate long balls / passes

    P45

    11/21

  • Box threat

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

    P95

    2/21

  • Press proxy

    Defensive actions per opp possession

    P65

    8/21

Dashed ring = league median (P50)

Attack shape

Attack →

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

Mean xG / shot

Set-piece goals 15.1% of goals

0.128

3 of 21 · P90 · league med 0.112

How chances are created

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

Assisted51.8%(216)
Corner16.3%(68)
Self-created15.1%(63)
Fast break7.7%(32)
Set piece4.1%(17)
Free kick2.4%(10)
Throw-in SP1.4%(6)
Penalty1.2%(5)

Assisted shot %

% of shots after a teammate pass/cross

51.8%

9 of 21 · P60 · league med 50.3

Set-piece shot %

Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces

24.2%

16 of 21 · P25 · league med 26.1

Fast-break shot %

Share of shots from transitions

7.7%

9 of 21 · P60 · league med 7.4

On the ball

Possession

Avg ball possession

54.6%

4 of 21 · P85 · league med 47

Long-ball rate

Accurate long balls / passes

4.9%

11 of 21 · P45 · league med 4.9

Final-third entries

Final-third entries / passes

11.2%

12 of 21 · P45 · league med 11.2

Side bias

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

-10.6

21 of 21 · P0 · league med 1.2

Without the ball

Defensive actions / opp poss

Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession

145.7

medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA

8 of 21 · P65 · league med 141.8

Clearances / match

Team clearances per game

23.0

13 of 21 · P40 · league med 22.5

Opp touches in box

Opponent penalty-area touches / match

21.7

10 of 21 · P55 · league med 22.1

Duel win %

Won/match · aerial 11.6 · ground 33.3

50.1%

11 of 21 · P50 · 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 flankmixedAinsley Maitland-Niles

Opposite-flank team lean with mixed wide player on right.

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

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