World Cup 2026
Portugal
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
83.0
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
82.9
Capability identity 89.5 · complete 93.9
Identity
Possession
Confidence 58%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
34.4
Tempo Control · score 35.8 / target 78
This squad is well suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite counterpress, Elite width. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Below-minimum occupation.
- · Primary Goalscoring depends heavily on one player (Cristiano Ronaldo).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Vitinha
Great Carrier
Primary creator
Bruno Fernandes
Good Box Crasher
Primary threat
Cristiano Ronaldo
Good Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
-5.8%
LHS lean
Structural gaps
- João Félix·LWInsufficient 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 Portugal — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P87
7/48
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P19
37/48
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P77
12/48
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P17
40/48
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P47
24/48
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P89
6/48
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P72
13/48
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 25.0% of goals
0.109
25 of 48 · P49 · 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
42.9%
37 of 48 · P19 · league med 49.5
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
33.3%
12 of 48 · P77 · league med 27
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
1.6%
40 of 48 · P17 · league med 5.6
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
58.2%
7 of 48 · P87 · league med 49.8
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
4.4%
24 of 48 · P47 · league med 4.4
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
13.2%
13 of 48 · P72 · league med 12.5
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-6.9
39 of 48 · P19 · league med 0.9
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
155.0
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
13 of 48 · P72 · league med 130.3
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
18.0
8 of 48 · P85 · league med 23.7
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
19.8
18 of 48 · P66 · league med 22
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 10.2 · ground 35.2
54.0%
2 of 48 · P98 · league med 50.3
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
No wide player assigned on this flank.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (-6.9); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.