Premier League 25/26
Sunderland
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
70.1
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
71.3
Capability identity 82.1 · complete 87.6
Identity
Vertical / Transition
Confidence 60%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Playmaking
Biggest gap
35.3
Recovery Pace · score 42.6 / target 88
This squad is well suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Elite ball retention, Excellent primary goalscoring, Elite ball carrying. Main limitations: Below-minimum recovery pace; Below-minimum counterattack threat; Limited tempo control.
- · Primary Goalscoring depends heavily on one player (Brian Brobbey).
- · Overlap Support depends heavily on one player (Nordi Mukiele).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Granit Xhaka
Elite Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary creator
Enzo Le Fée
Great Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Brian Brobbey
Great Target Man
Side bias (current XI)
+1.5%
RHS 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 Sunderland — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P21
16/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P16
17/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P79
5/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P32
14/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P95
2/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P42
12/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P0
19/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 23.8% of goals
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8 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
42.0%
17 of 20 · P16 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
36.8%
5 of 20 · P79 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
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14 of 20 · P32 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
44.8%
16 of 20 · P21 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
5.4%
2 of 20 · P95 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
14.8%
8 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+2.6
8 of 20 · P63 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
123.1
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
19 of 20 · P0 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
30.4
13 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
28.6
13 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 17.3 · ground 31.0
50.4%
8 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 (+2.6); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (+2.6); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.