Villarreal · La Liga · Champions League — pick a competition below (same club, separate player pools)
LaLiga 25/26
Villarreal
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
72.6
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
49.2
Capability identity 83.8 · complete 87.7
Identity
Low Block
Confidence 70%
Strongest capability
100.0
Secondary Box Runs
Biggest gap
11.3
Reading · score 11.8 / target 78
This squad is well suited to low block football because it combines Excellent primary goalscoring, Elite duelling, Excellent defensive coverage. Main limitations: Below-minimum reading; Below-minimum rotational flexibility; Limited rest defence.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Pape Gueye
Great Duel Destroyer
Primary creator
Nicolas Pépé
Great Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Ayoze Pérez
Good Target Man
Side bias (current XI)
+9.2%
RHS lean
No structural gaps in current XI.
Style (season — fixed)
LaLiga 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 Villarreal — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P16
17/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P47
11/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P5
19/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P95
2/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P37
13/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P68
7/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P26
15/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 8.3% of goals
0.131
2 of 20 · P95 · league med 0.109
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
49.6%
11 of 20 · P47 · league med 50
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
21.9%
19 of 20 · P5 · league med 27.5
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
12.3%
2 of 20 · P95 · league med 6.8
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
44.5%
17 of 20 · P16 · league med 50.2
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
5.2%
13 of 20 · P37 · league med 5.7
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
11.3%
16 of 20 · P21 · league med 12.2
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+3.4
10 of 20 · P53 · league med 3.4
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
131.3
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
15 of 20 · P26 · league med 143.8
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
26.9
17 of 20 · P16 · league med 24.9
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
24.7
16 of 20 · P21 · league med 23.1
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 9.8 · ground 36.3
49.1%
12 of 20 · P42 · league med 49.9
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team side bias near central (+3.4); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (+3.4); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.