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Lena Silano

Position:: Forward
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2000-02-28 (age 26)
Height:: 170 cm

Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 27 GP · 537 min · 2 goals · 1 assists

Composite 2024: 0.482 — ranked 91 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	Spirit	12	3	303	0	1	0	5	1	2	67.3	0	0	0.00	0.30
2	2024	Spirit	15		234	2	0	0	7	4	6	60.7	0	1	0.77	0.77
	2 Yrs		27	3	537	2	1	0	12	5	8	63.2	0	1	0.34	0.50

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	Spirit	303	0	0.41	-0.41	0.12	-0.30	0.14	-0.45	-0.09	0.57	0.17	0.155
2	2024	Spirit	234	2	0.75	1.25	0.29	2.01	2.18	-0.17	0.77	0.10	0.04	0.020
	2 Yrs		537	2	1.16	0.84	0.19	1.71	2.32	-0.62	0.29	0.67	0.11	0.175

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	2023	0.172	0.355	0.014	0.222		0.220	130	240
2	2024	0.933	0.159	-0.011	-0.158		0.482	91	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	9							6	3							5	4	played her role
2	2024	2								2						1		1	a 9, played like a 10
	2 Yrs	11							6	5						1	5	5	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.

Rk	Player	Team	Season	Pos	Similarity
1	Alex Morgan	Wave	2024	Forward	0.849
2	Ashley Hatch	Spirit	2022	Forward	0.840
3	Julie Doyle	Pride	2025	Midfielder	0.818
4	Nadia Nadim	Racing	2023	Forward	0.802
5	Ebony Salmon	Racing	2022	Forward	0.792
6	Asisat Oshoala	Bay FC	2024	Forward	0.792
7	Diana Ordóñez	Dash	2023	Forward	0.782
8	Esther González	Gotham	2025	Forward	0.772
9	Bethany Balcer	Racing	2025	Forward	0.758
10	Évelyne Viens	Gotham	2021	Forward	0.712