Premier League 25/26
Crystal Palace
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
84.9
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
76.7
Capability identity 86.7 · complete 90.4
Identity
Vertical / Transition
Confidence 65%
Strongest capability
100.0
Central Playmaking
Biggest gap
37.0
Tempo Control · score 26.2 / target 58
This squad is well suited to vertical / transition football because it combines Elite width, Elite through-ball threat, Excellent primary goalscoring. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Limited defensive transition; Limited central progression.
- · Primary Goalscoring depends heavily on one player (Jean-Philippe Mateta).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection, role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Adam Wharton
Good Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary creator
Yéremy Pino
Elite Playmaking Winger
Primary threat
Jean-Philippe Mateta
Great Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
+2.7%
RHS lean
Was -4.9%
Structural gaps
- Marc Guéhi·CBInsufficient data
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 Crystal Palace, shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P32
14/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P5
19/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P58
9/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P84
4/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P63
8/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P84
4/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P37
13/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 26.8% of goals
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10 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
39.5%
19 of 20 · P5 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
34.3%
9 of 20 · P58 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
—
4 of 20 · P84 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
45.9%
14 of 20 · P32 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
5.1%
8 of 20 · P63 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
13.5%
10 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
+2.2
9 of 20 · P58 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
135.7
medium confidence, proxy, not PPDA
13 of 20 · P37 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
33.7
11 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
25.2
11 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 19.0 · ground 31.7
49.1%
10 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Game State
Historical next-goal tendency · lead protection · chasing response , same engine as Match Preview
38 matches · 100% coverage
Level
HIGH56 entries · 1944 min in state
Goal timing
When goals arrive across the match clock · scored % · conceded % · net per window
38 of 38 matches
Scored %
7%
0-15
12%
16-30
29%
31-45
5%
46-60
20%
61-75
27%
76-90+
Conceded %
8%
0-15
0%
16-30
41%
31-45
16%
46-60
12%
61-75
24%
76-90+
Net / match (window only)
-0.03
0-15
+0.13
16-30
-0.24
31-45
-0.16
46-60
+0.05
61-75
-0.03
76-90+
41 scored · 51 conceded · stoppage (90+) in 76–90+
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 (+2.2); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Similar teams
Style shape vs top-5 leagues, 25/26, cosine similarity of the Team Identity radar percentiles (Possession, Assisted creation, Set pieces, Transitions, Directness, Box threat, Press proxy). Formation is context only and does not affect the score.
Brentford
PL 25/26
Closest axes
Closest on Assisted creation (P5 vs P0), Press proxy (P37 vs P42), Possession (P32 vs P42).
Auxerre
Ligue 1
Closest axes
Closest on Possession (P32 vs P30), Press proxy (P37 vs P40), Set pieces (P58 vs P55).
1. FC Köln
Bundesliga
Closest axes
Closest on Set pieces (P58 vs P56), Transitions (P84 vs P89), Directness (P63 vs P72).