Players›Sarah Gorden
Sarah Gorden
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1992-09-13 (age 33)
- Height:
- 168 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 161 GP · 13,786 min · 0 goals · 1 assists
Composite 2026: 0.715 — ranked 50 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 | 2016 | Stars | 4 | 0 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Stars | 5 | 3 | 239 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Stars | 17 | 12 | 1370 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Stars | 23 | 23 | 2192 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Stars | 27 | 27 | 2460 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 76.1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 | 2023 | Angel City | 23 | 23 | 2070 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 79.0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 | 2024 | Angel City | 24 | 24 | 2058 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 83.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 8 | 2025 | Angel City | 26 | 26 | 2275 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 84.0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 9 | 2026 | Angel City | 12 | 11 | 998 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 87.1 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.09 | |
| 9 Yrs | 161 | 149 | 13786 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 25 | 81.7 | 6 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 | ||
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 | 2016 | Chicago Stars | 124 | 0 | -0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | -0.02 | 0.27 | 0.19 | 0.050 | |||
| 2 | 2017 | Chicago Stars | 239 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.15 | -0.08 | 0.03 | 0.46 | 0.17 | 0.110 | |||
| 3 | 2018 | Chicago Stars | 1370 | 0 | 0.65 | -0.65 | 0.04 | 0.73 | 1.13 | -0.40 | 0.05 | 3.26 | 0.21 | 0.404 |
| 4 | 2019 | Chicago Stars | 2192 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 1.58 | 2.19 | -0.60 | 0.06 | 4.86 | 0.20 | 0.567 |
| 5 | 2021 | Chicago Stars | 2460 | 0 | 1.28 | 2.23 | -0.95 | 0.05 | 4.82 | 0.18 | 0.366 | |||
| 6 | 2023 | Angel City | 2070 | 0 | 0.15 | -0.15 | 0.01 | 2.30 | 3.14 | -0.84 | 0.10 | 5.27 | 0.23 | 0.263 |
| 7 | 2024 | Angel City | 2058 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 2.31 | 3.56 | -1.24 | 0.10 | 5.85 | 0.26 | 0.396 |
| 8 | 2025 | Angel City | 2275 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 1.95 | 2.94 | -0.99 | 0.08 | 5.58 | 0.22 | 0.320 |
| 9 | 2026 | Angel City | 998 | 0 | 0.82 | 1.00 | -0.18 | 0.07 | 2.83 | 0.26 | 0.184 | |||
| 9 Yrs | 13786 | 0 | 0.89 | -0.89 | 0.01 | 11.01 | 16.31 | -5.28 | 0.07 | 33.20 | 0.22 | 2.660 | ||
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 | 2023 | -0.533 | 0.798 | 0.331 | 2.100 | 0.000 | 1.047 | 9 | 240 |
| 2 | 2024 | -1.280 | 1.155 | 0.217 | 2.012 | 1.052 | 17 | 338 | |
| 3 | 2025 | -1.274 | 1.222 | 0.511 | 1.454 | 0.965 | 20 | 258 | |
| 4 | 2026 | -0.988 | 0.689 | 0.168 | 1.302 | 0.080 | 0.715 | 50 | 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 | 2017 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2018 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2019 | 25 | 8 | 17 | 7 | 17 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2020 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 8 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 2021 | 31 | 6 | 25 | 6 | 25 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2023 | 27 | 27 | 1 | 26 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 2024 | 28 | 28 | 28 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | 2025 | 26 | 26 | 1 | 25 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 9 | 2026 | 11 | 11 | 11 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 9 Yrs | 172 | 24 | 148 | 24 | 147 | 1 | 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 | Stine Ballisager Pedersen | Current | 2024 | Defender | 0.842 |
| 2 | Caitlin Cosme | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.776 |
| 3 | Savy King | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.768 |
| 4 | Hannah Anderson | Stars | 2025 | Defender | 0.766 |
| 5 | Kate Elizabeth Bowen | Courage | 2022 | Defender | 0.764 |
| 6 | Ellie Jean | Gotham | 2023 | Defender | 0.756 |
| 7 | Becky Sauerbrunn | Thorns | 2024 | Defender | 0.755 |
| 8 | Sam Hiatt | Reign | 2023 | Defender | 0.743 |
| 9 | Kayla Sharples | Bay FC | 2024 | Defender | 0.735 |
| 10 | Natalie Jacobs | Dash | 2024 | Defender | 0.724 |