World Cup 2026
Paraguay
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
66.1
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
40.7
Capability identity 71.5 · complete 72.7
Identity
Vertical / Transition
Confidence 60%
Strongest capability
100.0
Defensive Coverage
Biggest gap
0.0
Primary Goalscoring · score 0 / target 68
This squad is moderately suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Excellent width, Elite isolation, Excellent secondary box runs. Main limitations: Below-minimum primary goalscoring; Below-minimum central progression; Below-minimum tempo control.
- · Ball Retention depends heavily on one player (Diego Gómez).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Diego Gómez
Good Duel Destroyer
Primary creator
Miguel Almirón
Good Duelist Winger
Primary threat
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Updated by swap
Side bias (current XI)
-4.4%
LHS lean
Structural gaps
- Antonio Sanabria·CFInsufficient data
Style (season — fixed)
World Cup 2026 · 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 Paraguay — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P0
48/48
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P4
46/48
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P49
25/48
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P45
26/48
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P89
6/48
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P36
31/48
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P32
33/48
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 28.6% of goals
0.159
6 of 48 · P89 · league med 0.11
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
31.7%
46 of 48 · P4 · league med 49.5
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
26.8%
25 of 48 · P49 · league med 27
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
4.9%
26 of 48 · P45 · league med 5.6
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
29.6%
48 of 48 · P0 · league med 49.8
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
6.5%
6 of 48 · P89 · league med 4.4
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
17.4%
1 of 48 · P100 · league med 12.5
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-2.2
33 of 48 · P32 · league med 0.9
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
119.0
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
33 of 48 · P32 · league med 130.3
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
36.2
44 of 48 · P9 · league med 23.7
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
37.0
43 of 48 · P11 · league med 22
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 16.2 · ground 45.4
49.8%
28 of 48 · P43 · league med 50.3
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team side bias near central (-2.2); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (-2.2); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.