World Cup 2026
USA
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
76.3
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
80.1
Capability identity 80.4 · complete 85.8
Identity
Possession
Confidence 58%
Strongest capability
100.0
Wide Playmaking
Biggest gap
12.0
Tempo Control · score 12.5 / target 78
This squad is moderately suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite rest defence, Excellent first-phase circulation. 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
Malik Tillman
Good Box Crasher
Primary creator
Sergiño Dest
Average Link Forward
Primary threat
Folarin Balogun
Good Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
+3.2%
RHS lean
Was +3.6%
Structural gaps
- Christian Pulišić·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 USA — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P79
11/48
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P32
33/48
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P81
10/48
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P34
32/48
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P36
30/48
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P62
19/48
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P77
12/48
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 45.5% of goals
0.108
26 of 48 · P47 · 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
44.3%
33 of 48 · P32 · league med 49.5
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
34.4%
10 of 48 · P81 · league med 27
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
3.3%
32 of 48 · P34 · league med 5.6
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
56.8%
11 of 48 · P79 · league med 49.8
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
4.1%
30 of 48 · P36 · league med 4.4
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
12.9%
18 of 48 · P62 · league med 12.5
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+6.5
14 of 48 · P72 · league med 0.9
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
162.0
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
12 of 48 · P77 · league med 130.3
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
24.8
29 of 48 · P40 · league med 23.7
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
16.4
11 of 48 · P81 · league med 22
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 14.0 · ground 39.8
50.4%
22 of 48 · P53 · 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 (+6.5); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.