Goal efficiency
How clinical and direct the player was in front of goal — volume, accuracy, and conversion.
Sander
Novorizontino · Serie B · Defender · #5 · Brazil · 35 yrs
Novorizontino · Serie B · Defender · #5 · Brazil · 35 yrs
Sander plays as a defender for Novorizontino. Sander is a Brazilian international, 35 years old, defender, currently at Novorizontino. Sander wears shirt number 5 for Novorizontino. Sander was born in Corumbá de Goiás, Brazil on 1990-10-03. Sander is 176 cm tall and weighs 75 kg. Sander's Sportra profile tracks season statistics across Serie A, Goiano - 1, Pernambucano - 1, Copa Verde, and other leagues. Sander's page brings together career clubs, trophies, injury history, multi-competition stats, and related news headlines. On Sportra you can explore Sander season statistics, transfer history, trophies, injury updates, and related news across every competition tracked in the profile.
| Date | Type | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-06 | Free Transfer |  Goias GOI |  Cuiaba CUI |
| 2023-01-10 | Free |  Sport Recife SPO | Goias GOI |
| 2017-06-05 | N/A |  Cruzeiro RS EC | Sport Recife SPO |
Season intelligence
Profile as Defender: creator, defensive work, high usage. Archetype: Wide creator. Season rating 5.8.
Scaled 0–99 from season output — map to fantasy, comparisons, or scouting cards.
Per-90 rates, efficiency ratios, and Sportra indices from season totals.
How clinical and direct the player was in front of goal — volume, accuracy, and conversion.
Playmaking output: assists, key passes, and custom chance-creation signals.
Isolation threat and progressive carrying — volume plus success rate.
How often they draw fouls and stay out of trouble with cards.
Tackles, duels, and off-ball defensive contribution.
Shot-stopping, goals conceded, and penalty saves.
Minutes, availability, and how central they were to the team.
Every tracked category for this league and season, grouped by Sportra.
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After being denied their rightful place in this season’s Europa League, Crystal Palace finally have their revenge. In Oliver Glasner’s final match in charge, it was fitting that Jean-Philippe Mateta should score what turned out to be the winning goal after his January move to Milan was scuppered by a failed medical. It has been that kind of season.Having rescued the south London club from the brink of extinction only 16 years ago, how Steve Parish must have relished this occasion. The Palace chair found himself sitting next to the Uefa president, Aleksander Ceferin, for the biggest night in their history and he can now start planning for the Europa League campaign that was denied to them as last year’s FA Cup winners were adjudged to have broken European football’s governing body’s rules on multi-club ownership. As for Glasner, who performed a full-length dive on the pitch before going up to collect his winners’ medal, it ends any debate over whether he is the greatest manager in Palace’s history. Continue reading...
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