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PlayersKysha Sylla

Kysha Sylla

Kysha Sylla

Position:
Defender
Nationality:
France
Born:
2004-02-04 (age 22)
Height:
173 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 15 GP · 394 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2025: 0.564 — ranked 57 of 258 Composite page →

Standard Stats

Glossary
Playing TimePerformancePer 90
RkSeasonTeamGPGSMinGlsAstPKShSoTKPPass%CrdYCrdRGls/90G+A/90
12025Spirit15239400000186.3100.000.00
1 Yr15239400000186.3100.000.00

Advanced Stats

Glossary
ExpectedVAEPThreat
RkSeasonTeamMinGlsxGG−xGxG/90VAEPOffDefVAEP/90xTxT/90DAxT
12025Spirit3940-0.810.25-1.06-0.190.520.120.077
1 Yr39400.000.000.00-0.810.25-1.06-0.190.520.120.077

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
RkSeasonxGCarriesBox PassesDefenseGKCompositeRankPool
120250.7460.7500.5490.56457258

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)
RkSeasonStartsGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTGKFBCBDMCMAMWSTRead
12025222played her role
1 Yr222played her role

Similar Players

Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

RkPlayerTeamSeasonPosSimilarity
1Ellie JeanGotham2023Defender0.749
2Taylor Maree LeachCurrent2022Defender0.744
3Maycee BellCourage2025Defender0.709
4Croix SotoCurrent2023Defender0.693
5Isabella ObazeThorns2024Defender0.693
6RafaellePride2024Defender0.692
7Stine Ballisager PedersenCurrent2024Defender0.677
8Megan ReidAngel City2024Defender0.675
9Amber BrooksSpirit2022Defender0.673
10Trinity ArmstrongWave2025Defender0.672