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Premiership · 2025/2026

Luke Graham

Centre back
Team
Dundee
Role
Centre back
Nationality
Scotland
Date of birth
11 Feb 2004 (age 22)
Shirt number
22
Season
2025/2026

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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

84.6/ 100

Clearly above average for their role

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

Compared with centre backs (55) · Statistics available 100%

What goes into this score
Tackles per 9025%
1.50
Interceptions per 9025%
1.38
Ball recoveries per 9020%
3.94
Clearances per 9015%
6.73
Shots blocked per 9015%
0.29
Defensive activitySeason · Per 90

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

Defensive activity statistics
MetricSeasonPer 90
Tackles521.50
Interceptions481.38
Ball recoveries1373.94
Clearances2346.73
Shots blocked100.29
Fouls committed330.95
Fouls won501.44
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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 interceptions0.95
Possession-adjusted recoveries2.38
Possession-adjusted clearances4.11
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 1,768 opponent-possession minutes across 36 matches (100% of recorded minutes).

TacklingSeason · Per 90

Tackle volume and how often the tackle comes off.

Tackling statistics
MetricSeasonPer 90
Tackles521.50
Tackles won270.78
Tackle success rate61.4%–
Last-man tackles20.06
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DuelsSeason · Per 90

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

Duels statistics
MetricSeasonPer 90
Duels41411.91
Duels won2767.94
Duels lost902.59
Duel win rate66.7%–
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AerialsSeason · Per 90

Contests in the air.

Aerials statistics
MetricSeasonPer 90
Aerial duels won1634.69
Aerial duels lost691.98
Aerial win rate66.7%–
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Defensive Reliability Score

27.1/ 100

Below average for their role

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

Compared with centre backs (55) · Statistics available 80%

What goes into this score
Dribbled past per 90 (lower is better)30%
0.43
Tackle success rate25%
0.61
Errors leading to a shot per 90 (lower is better)20%
Not available
Duel win rate15%
0.67
Fouls committed per 90 (lower is better)10%
0.95
Defensive reliabilitySeason · Per 90

Mistakes and discipline recorded while defending.

Defensive reliability statistics
MetricSeasonPer 90
Dribbled past150.43
Errors leading to a shotNot available–
Errors leading to a goal20.06
Penalties concededNot available–
Clearances off the line20.06
Yellow cards30.09
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