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Linda Motlhalo

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: South Africa
Born:: 1998-07-01 (age 28)
Height:: 162 cm

Career (2018–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 22 GP · 2,016 min · 1 goals · 1 assists

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	2018	Dash	21	20	2013	1	1	0	18	10	19		0	0	0.04	0.09
2	2024	Racing Lou	1		3	0	0	0	0	0		85.7	0	0	0.00	0.00
	2 Yrs		22	20	2016	1	1	0	18	10	19	85.7	0	0	0.04	0.09

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	2018	Dash	2013	1	0.59	0.41	0.03	2.83	2.12	0.71	0.13	2.24	0.10	0.678
2	2024	Racing Lou	3	0				-0.05	-0.05	-0.01	-1.57	0.02	0.47	0.001
	2 Yrs		2016	1	0.59	0.41	0.03	2.78	2.07	0.70	0.12	2.26	0.10	0.679

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	2018	20				3	17					1		15	1	3			an 8, played like a 6
	1 Yr	20				3	17					1		15	1	3			an 8, played like a 6

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	Desiree Scott	Royals	2019	Midfielder	0.861
2	Morgan Gautrat	Chicago Stars	2019	Midfielder	0.840
3	Meggie Dougherty Howard	Spirit	2018	Midfielder	0.839
4	Rocky Rodríguez	Gotham FC	2017	Midfielder	0.830
5	Haley McCutcheon	Dash	2018	Defender	0.829
6	Denise O'Sullivan	Dash	2016	Midfielder	0.822
7	Thaisa	Gotham FC	2018	Midfielder	0.822
8	Cari Roccaro	Courage	2020	Midfielder	0.809
9	Allie Long	Reign	2019	Midfielder	0.808
10	Mandy Laddish	Royals	2019	Midfielder	0.799