Premier League 25/26
Wolverhampton
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
65.7
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
55.4
Capability identity 77.2 · complete 82.5
Identity
Vertical / Transition
Confidence 60%
Strongest capability
100.0
Ball Carrying
Biggest gap
28.3
Defensive Transition · score 29.5 / target 78
This squad is moderately suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Elite width, Elite ball carrying, Excellent primary goalscoring. Main limitations: Below-minimum defensive transition; Below-minimum secondary box runs; Below-minimum tempo control.
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
João Gomes
Great Duel Destroyer
Primary creator
Mateus Mané
Great Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Tolu Arokodare
Elite Target Man
Side bias (current XI)
-6.2%
LHS 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 Wolverhampton — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P11
18/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P42
12/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P63
8/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P11
18/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P79
5/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P53
10/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P16
17/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 29.6% of goals
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13 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
46.8%
12 of 20 · P42 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
35.9%
8 of 20 · P63 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
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18 of 20 · P11 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
42.8%
18 of 20 · P11 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
5.9%
5 of 20 · P79 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
13.5%
13 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-11.8
20 of 20 · P0 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
128.1
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
17 of 20 · P16 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
28.9
8 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
28.0
8 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 14.7 · ground 35.8
49.0%
13 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team leans left (+11.8) with a mixed wide profile on the flank.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
No wide player assigned on this flank.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.