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Eva Gaetino

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2002-12-17 (age 23)

Career (2026–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 11 GP · 787 min · 1 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2026: 0.695 — ranked 53 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	2026	Summit	11	8	787	1	0	0	3	1	1	84.0	3	0	0.11	0.11
	1 Yr		11	8	787	1	0	0	3	1	1	84.0	3	0	0.11	0.11

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2026	Denver	787	1	0.90	0.10	0.10	2.05	2.32	-0.27	0.23	3.13	0.36	0.232
	1 Yr		787	1	0.90	0.10	0.10	2.05	2.32	-0.27	0.23	3.13	0.36	0.232

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.

Glossary

		Components
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2026	0.727	1.600	-0.274	0.662	0.000	0.695	53	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	2026	8			8								8						played her role
	1 Yr	8			8								8						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	Elizabeth Ball	Current	2023	Defender	0.871
2	Kelli Hubly	Thorns	2022	Defender	0.850
3	Kaleigh Riehl	Wave	2022	Defender	0.849
4	Taylor Maree Leach	Current	2021	Defender	0.839
5	Abby Dahlkemper	Wave	2023	Defender	0.828
6	Mandy Freeman	Gotham	2022	Defender	0.811
7	Kate Del Fava	Royals	2025	Defender	0.810
8	Sam Hiatt	Thorns	2026	Defender	0.804
9	Amber Brooks	Reign	2021	Defender	0.802
10	Emily Sonnett	Spirit	2021	Defender	0.793