Players›Manaka Matsukubo
Manaka Matsukubo
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- Japan
- Born:
- 2004-07-28 (age 21)
- Height:
- 155 cm
Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 60 GP · 4,557 min · 19 goals · 10 assists
Composite 2026: 1.411 — ranked 7 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2023 | Courage | 544 | 1 | 0.38 | 0.62 | 0.06 | 0.71 | 0.85 | -0.15 | 0.12 | 0.62 | 0.10 | 0.076 |
| 2 | 2024 | Courage | 1141 | 2 | 2.71 | -0.71 | 0.21 | 1.10 | 1.32 | -0.22 | 0.09 | 1.12 | 0.09 | 0.153 |
| 3 | 2025 | Courage | 2106 | 11 | 7.83 | 3.17 | 0.33 | 4.69 | 5.52 | -0.83 | 0.20 | 3.04 | 0.13 | 0.355 |
| 4 | 2026 | Courage | 766 | 5 | 3.93 | 1.07 | 0.46 | 3.22 | 3.46 | -0.25 | 0.38 | 7.66 | 0.90 | 0.267 |
| 4 Yrs | 4557 | 19 | 14.85 | 4.15 | 0.29 | 9.72 | 11.15 | -1.45 | 0.19 | 12.44 | 0.25 | 0.851 | ||
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 | 2025 | 0.421 | -0.871 | 0.269 | 0.463 | 0.089 | 176 | 258 | |
| 2 | 2026 | 2.058 | 0.050 | 2.414 | 0.794 | 0.000 | 1.411 | 7 | 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 | 2023 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | an 8, played like a 10 | ||||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | played her role | |||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 6 | a 9, played like a 10 | |||||||
| 4 | 2026 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 54 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 8 | 13 | an 8, played like a 10 | ||||||||
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 | Gia Corley | San Diego Wave | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.858 |
| 2 | Delanie Sheehan | Gotham FC | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.845 |
| 3 | Cece Delzer | KC Current | 2023 | Forward | 0.838 |
| 4 | Marissa Everett | Thorns | 2021 | Forward | 0.836 |
| 5 | Tess Boade | Courage | 2023 | Forward | 0.829 |
| 6 | Ella Stevens | Chicago Stars | 2023 | Forward | 0.795 |
| 7 | Melanie Barcenas | San Diego Wave | 2023 | Forward | 0.790 |
| 8 | Carli Lloyd | Gotham FC | 2021 | Forward | 0.790 |
| 9 | Rose Lavelle | Reign | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.779 |
| 10 | Christine Sinclair | Thorns | 2022 | Forward | 0.775 |