Premier League 25/26
West Ham United
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
75.0
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
75.0
Capability identity 87.5 · complete 92.1
Identity
Vertical / Transition
Confidence 100%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Playmaking
Biggest gap
30.4
Defensive Transition · score 31.7 / target 78
This squad is well suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Elite ball retention, Elite ball carrying, Elite secondary box runs. Main limitations: Below-minimum defensive transition; Limited tempo control; Limited through-ball threat.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Mateus Fernandes
Elite Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary creator
Jarrod Bowen
Great Link Forward
Primary threat
Callum Wilson
Great Channel Runner
Side bias (current XI)
+4.3%
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 West Ham United — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P5
19/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P32
14/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P42
12/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P95
2/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P79
4/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P79
5/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P11
18/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 32.6% of goals
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11 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
43.8%
14 of 20 · P32 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
29.8%
12 of 20 · P42 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
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2 of 20 · P95 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
42.6%
19 of 20 · P5 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
5.6%
4 of 20 · P79 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
13.7%
11 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+9.3
1 of 20 · P100 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
125.8
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
18 of 20 · P11 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
29.1
10 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
29.5
10 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 14.8 · ground 34.6
50.4%
11 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team overload is elsewhere (+9.3) but Crysencio Summerville is an on-ball creator stationed on the weaker flank — may need local possession to impact.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team season lean (+9.3) favors this flank and Jarrod Bowen is an on-ball creator type — overload feeds the primary chance creator.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.