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Marley Canales

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1997-11-16 (age 28)
Height:: 163 cm

Career (2022–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 6 GP · 83 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2023: 0.259 — ranked 125 of 240 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	2022	Reign	4	1	80	0	0	0	1	0		75.0	0	0	0.00	0.00
2	2023	Reign	2		3	0	0	0	0	0		85.7	0	0	0.00	0.00
	2 Yrs		6	1	83	0	0	0	1	0	0	78.3	0	0	0.00	0.00

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	2022	Reign	80	0	0.03	-0.03	0.03	-0.09	-0.04	-0.05	-0.10	0.07	0.08	0.043
2	2023	Reign	3	0				-0.03	-0.02	-0.01	-0.92	0.01	0.31
	2 Yrs		83	0	0.03	-0.03	0.03	-0.12	-0.06	-0.06	-0.13	0.08	0.09	0.043

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	2022	0.005	-0.394	0.000	0.398	0.000	0.022	181	247
2	2023	-0.020	-0.906	0.219	1.455		0.259	125	240

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	2022	1				1								1					played her role
2	2023	3				2	1							3					played her role
	2 Yrs	4				3	1							4					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	Ryanne Brown	Reign	2026	Defender	0.760
2	Ava Cook	Chicago Stars	2025	Forward	0.672
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5	Jaelin Howell	Racing Lou	2022	Midfielder	0.628
6	Olivia Van der Jagt	Reign	2023	Midfielder	0.584
7	Lily Nabet	Angel City	2023	Midfielder	0.574
8	Amandine Henry	Angel City	2023	Midfielder	0.556
9	Madelyn Desiano	Dash	2023	Defender	0.538
10	Sophie Schmidt	Dash	2022	Midfielder	0.518