Players›Esme Morgan
Esme Morgan
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- England
- Born:
- 2000-10-18 (age 25)
- Height:
- 177 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 49 GP · 4,034 min · 2 goals · 2 assists
Composite 2026: 0.660 — ranked 59 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2024 | Spirit | 764 | 0 | 0.10 | -0.10 | 0.01 | 0.83 | 1.27 | -0.44 | 0.10 | 1.08 | 0.13 | 0.067 |
| 2 | 2025 | Spirit | 2256 | 2 | 1.88 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 4.52 | 6.44 | -1.92 | 0.18 | 4.92 | 0.20 | 0.391 |
| 3 | 2026 | Spirit | 1014 | 0 | 0.11 | -0.11 | 0.01 | 1.85 | 3.06 | -1.21 | 0.16 | 4.05 | 0.36 | 0.322 |
| 3 Yrs | 4034 | 2 | 2.09 | -0.09 | 0.05 | 7.20 | 10.77 | -3.57 | 0.16 | 10.05 | 0.22 | 0.780 | ||
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 | 2026 | 0.123 | 1.380 | 2.038 | -0.293 | 0.000 | 0.660 | 59 | 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 | 2024 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 8 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 25 | 6 | 19 | 2 | 22 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 44 | 7 | 37 | 2 | 40 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||||
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 | Ryan Williams | Courage | 2024 | Defender | 0.796 |
| 2 | Kelley O'Hara | Spirit | 2022 | Defender | 0.754 |
| 3 | Kennedy Wesley | Wave | 2026 | Defender | 0.738 |
| 4 | Hanna Lundkvist | Wave | 2025 | Defender | 0.730 |
| 5 | Emily Sams | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.703 |
| 6 | Kaleigh Kurtz | Courage | 2023 | Defender | 0.693 |
| 7 | Taylor Wood | Stars | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.687 |
| 8 | Sarah Gorden | Angel City | 2024 | Defender | 0.683 |
| 9 | Natalia Kuikka | Thorns | 2023 | Defender | 0.675 |
| 10 | Hailie Mace | Current | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.662 |