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Ashley Sanchez
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1999-03-16 (age 27)
- Height:
- 162 cm
Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 127 GP · 9,905 min · 29 goals · 13 assists
Composite 2026: 1.675 — ranked 2 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
| Playing Time | Performance | Per 90 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | GP | GS | Min | Gls | Ast | PK | Sh | SoT | KP | Pass% | CrdY | CrdR | Gls/90 | G+A/90 |
| 1 | 2021 | Spirit | 25 | 24 | 2072 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 27 | 34 | 72.2 | 2 | 0 | 0.22 | 0.22 |
| 2 | 2022 | Spirit | 19 | 16 | 1483 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 47 | 25 | 30 | 72.7 | 2 | 0 | 0.18 | 0.49 |
| 3 | 2023 | Spirit | 20 | 19 | 1603 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 18 | 19 | 72.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.28 | 0.34 |
| 4 | 2024 | Courage | 27 | 26 | 2219 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 49 | 28 | 35 | 79.3 | 1 | 0 | 0.20 | 0.37 |
| 5 | 2025 | Courage | 23 | 17 | 1411 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 17 | 21 | 76.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.13 | 0.26 |
| 6 | 2026 | Courage | 13 | 13 | 1117 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 17 | 18 | 68.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.73 | 0.81 |
| 6 Yrs | 127 | 115 | 9905 | 29 | 13 | 0 | 222 | 132 | 157 | 74.6 | 5 | 0 | 0.26 | 0.38 | ||
Advanced Stats
| Expected | VAEP | Threat | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | Min | Gls | xG | G−xG | xG/90 | VAEP | Off | Def | VAEP/90 | xT | xT/90 | DAxT |
| 1 | 2021 | Spirit | 2072 | 5 | 2.92 | 2.08 | 0.13 | 3.95 | 4.51 | -0.56 | 0.17 | 3.27 | 0.14 | 0.368 |
| 2 | 2022 | Spirit | 1483 | 3 | 2.40 | 0.60 | 0.15 | 4.89 | 5.50 | -0.61 | 0.30 | 3.87 | 0.24 | 0.228 |
| 3 | 2023 | Spirit | 1603 | 5 | 2.70 | 2.30 | 0.15 | 5.38 | 5.63 | -0.25 | 0.30 | 2.58 | 0.14 | 0.193 |
| 4 | 2024 | Courage | 2219 | 5 | 3.93 | 1.07 | 0.16 | 5.05 | 5.50 | -0.45 | 0.20 | 5.67 | 0.23 | 0.301 |
| 5 | 2025 | Courage | 1411 | 2 | 1.31 | 0.69 | 0.08 | 2.65 | 3.06 | -0.41 | 0.17 | 3.26 | 0.21 | 0.230 |
| 6 | 2026 | Courage | 1117 | 9 | 4.79 | 4.21 | 0.39 | 6.59 | 6.87 | -0.28 | 0.53 | 10.73 | 0.86 | 0.139 |
| 6 Yrs | 9905 | 29 | 18.05 | 10.95 | 0.16 | 28.51 | 31.07 | -2.56 | 0.26 | 29.38 | 0.27 | 1.459 | ||
Composite Rating
Our overall player rating, unique to this site: five components — xG, ball carries, passes into the box, defensive value, and goalkeeping — combined into one score and averaged across every selection-model run of the season. Rank is her place among all rated players that year.
| Components | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | xG | Carries | Box Passes | Defense | GK | Composite | Rank | Pool |
| 1 | 2022 | -0.396 | 0.052 | -0.314 | 0.588 | -0.128 | 247 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2024 | -0.634 | -0.137 | 0.810 | 0.861 | -0.141 | 338 | 338 | |
| 3 | 2026 | 1.236 | 2.619 | 1.133 | 1.924 | 0.000 | 1.675 | 2 | 385 |
Structural Roles
Start counts by role, per season — twice. Explicit is where the team sheet wrote her; Inferredis what a model reading only her on-ball events made of each start. The Read column states each season's verdict from the two most common roles.
| Explicit (Team Sheet) | Inferred (Event Data) | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Starts | GK | FB | CB | DM | CM | AM | W | ST | GK | FB | CB | DM | CM | AM | W | ST | Read |
| 1 | 2020 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2021 | 28 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 11 | an 8, played like a 9 | ||||||||
| 3 | 2022 | 23 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | an 8, played like a 9 | ||||||||
| 4 | 2023 | 19 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 4 | an 8, played like a 10 | ||||||||
| 5 | 2024 | 30 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 4 | an 8, played like a winger | ||||||
| 6 | 2025 | 17 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 3 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 7 | 2026 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 13 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 7 Yrs | 138 | 2 | 7 | 69 | 5 | 41 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 29 | 62 | 33 | an 8, played like a winger | ||||||
Similar Players
Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.
| Rk | Player | Team | Season | Pos | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clara Schilke | Courage | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.785 |
| 2 | Vanessa Kara Michelle González | Racing | 2021 | Forward | 0.745 |
| 3 | Veronica Latsko | Dash | 2019 | Forward | 0.742 |
| 4 | Yuri Kawamura | Courage | 2018 | Midfielder | 0.697 |
| 5 | Sarah Luebbert | Stars | 2020 | Midfielder | 0.665 |
| 6 | Michaela-Batya Bisi Abam | Dash | 2022 | Forward | 0.633 |
| 7 | Crystal Elaine Marie Thomas | Pride | 2021 | Forward | 0.630 |
| 8 | Yazmeen Ryan | Thorns | 2021 | Forward | 0.614 |
| 9 | María Sánchez | Stars | 2019 | Midfielder | 0.609 |
| 10 | Taylor Lytle | Royals | 2018 | Midfielder | 0.605 |