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Lauren Leal

Lauren Eduarda Leal Costa

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: Brazil
Born:: 2002-09-13 (age 23)
Height:: 178 cm

Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 5 GP · 169 min · 1 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2024: 0.481 — ranked 92 of 338 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	2023	Current	2	1	91	0	0	0	0	0		69.1	0	0	0.00	0.00
2	2024	Current	3	1	78	1	0	0	4	2		73.5	0	0	1.15	1.15
	2 Yrs		5	2	169	1	0	0	4	2	0	71.2	0	0	0.53	0.53

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	2023	KC Current	91	0				-0.07	0.05	-0.11	-0.07	0.30	0.30
2	2024	KC Current	78	1	0.45	0.55	0.52	0.71	0.72	-0.01	0.82	0.21	0.24	0.029
	2 Yrs		169	1	0.45	0.55	0.24	0.64	0.77	-0.12	0.34	0.51	0.27	0.029

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	2024	1.395	0.105	-0.123	0.719		0.481	92	338

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	2023	1			1								1						played her role
2	2024	1			1								1						played her role
	2 Yrs	2			2								2						played her role

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

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1	Kristen McNabb	Wave	2026	Defender	0.707
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5	Gabrielle Robinson	Current	2024	Defender	0.477
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8	Kayla Sharples	Bay FC	2024	Defender	0.449
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10	Makenzy Robbe	Dash	2026	Forward	0.435