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Premiership · 2026/2027

Joe Hodge

Defensive midfielder
Role
Defensive midfielder
Nationality
Republic of Ireland
Date of birth
14 Sept 2002 (age 23)
Season
2026/2027

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02 / Defending

Defending

Season figures recorded by the data provider, with a per-90 view where it makes sense. A statistic the provider never recorded is shown as not available, never as zero.

Defensive Activity Score

Needs 360 minutes and 5 appearances

How often the player makes defensive actions: tackles, interceptions, recoveries, clearances and blocks.

Compared with defensive midfielders (0) · Statistics available 0%

What goes into this score
Tackles per 9025%
Not available
Interceptions per 9025%
Not available
Ball recoveries per 9020%
Not available
Clearances per 9015%
Not available
Shots blocked per 9015%
Not available
Defensive activitySeason · Per 90

How often the player defends the ball back for the team.

Defensive activity statistics
MetricSeasonPer 90
Tackles42.24
Interceptions21.12
Ball recoveries73.91
Clearances31.68
Shots blocked10.56
Fouls committed52.80
Fouls won31.68
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Possession-adjusted defendingPer 30 opponent-possession min

Adjusts defensive activity for how much time the player's team spends without the ball, making players from high- and low-possession teams easier to compare.

Possession-adjusted defending
MetricAdjusted
Possession-adjusted tacklesNot enough data
Possession-adjusted interceptionsNot enough data
Possession-adjusted recoveriesNot enough data
Possession-adjusted clearancesNot enough data
Possession-adjusted defensive actionsNot enough data

For every appearance we take the player's minutes and the opponent's own recorded possession in that fixture, and multiply them to get opponent-possession minutes. Season actions from those fixtures are then divided by the summed opponent-possession minutes and shown per 30 of them. Based on 58 opponent-possession minutes across 2 matches (100% of recorded minutes).

TacklingSeason · Per 90

Tackle volume and how often the tackle comes off.

Tackling statistics
MetricSeasonPer 90
Tackles42.24
Tackles won42.24
Tackle success rate100.0%
Last-man tacklesNot available
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DuelsSeason · Per 90

All one-against-one contests, on the ground and in the air.

Duels statistics
MetricSeasonPer 90
Duels1810.06
Duels won95.03
Duels lost95.03
Duel win rate50.0%
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AerialsSeason · Per 90

Contests in the air.

Aerials statistics
MetricSeasonPer 90
Aerial duels wonNot available
Aerial duels lost10.56
Aerial win rateNot available
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Defensive Reliability Score

Needs 360 minutes and 5 appearances

How dependable the player is when defending: winning the contest rather than being beaten, and avoiding mistakes and fouls.

Compared with defensive midfielders (0) · Statistics available 0%

What goes into this score
Dribbled past per 90 (lower is better)30%
Not available
Tackle success rate25%
Not available
Errors leading to a shot per 90 (lower is better)20%
Not available
Duel win rate15%
Not available
Fouls committed per 90 (lower is better)10%
Not available
Defensive reliabilitySeason · Per 90

Mistakes and discipline recorded while defending.

Defensive reliability statistics
MetricSeasonPer 90
Dribbled past10.56
Errors leading to a shot10.56
Errors leading to a goalNot available
Penalties concededNot available
Clearances off the lineNot available
Yellow cards00.00
Red cardsNot available
Own goalsNot available
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11 / Method

Methodology

Data source

Match, lineup, event and player statistics come from Sportmonks and are stored per fixture. Only completed fixtures with recorded minutes are aggregated. Announced lineups and future fixtures are excluded.

Per 90 minutes

A per-90 value scales a season total to a full match: total × 90 ÷ minutes played. It is not calculated when minutes are missing or zero.

Missing data

The provider omits some statistics instead of sending a zero. A missing value is shown as "not available" and never converted to 0, so rates and percentiles are only produced where the underlying fields genuinely exist.

Impact Score

The Football Performance Lab Impact Score is an experimental in-house model that combines role-relative percentile families with explicit weights. It is not an official rating and not a measure of transfer value.

Minimum samples

Values are calculated internally from 180 minutes, but a player is only shown publicly with a ranked Impact Score from 360 minutes and 5 appearances, with at least 90% metric coverage and an established role. A single appearance contributes a match impact observation from 30 minutes.

Full methodology