Sunderland · 2025/26
Dan Ballard
Dan Ballard ranks 173rd of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 9.5m on average, with 57% of their danger coming from set pieces. They carry 8% of Sunderland’s attacking output, the 5th largest share in the squad.
This week
Next fixture
Gameweek 2vs Fulham
Sun 30 Aug, 13:00 UTC
Fulham concede 11.9 shots a match and are 0.97× the league norm against defenders. Roughly an average matchup.
- Projected shots
- 1.01
- Projected on target
- 0.36
1.05 per 90 × 0.96
0.38 per 90 × 0.94
Season rate multiplied by what this opponent concedes relative to the league. It assumes a full ninety minutes and takes no account of rotation, so check availability before reading anything into it.
Shots
29 appearances- Over 0.566%± 9
- Over 1.514%± 6
- Over 2.53%± 3
- Over 3.53%± 3
Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 10 of 29 here, so these are lower, and more honest, than rates built only from matches where the player got a shot away.
Shots on target
29 appearances- Over 0.521%± 8
- Over 1.510%± 6
- Over 2.50%± 0
Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 10 of 29 here, so these are lower, and more honest, than rates built only from matches where the player got a shot away.
Where the shots come from
Where they shoot
25 shotsDan Ballard, 2025/26 · final 35m.
- left
- 49%
- Centre
- 23%
- right
- 28%
share of their shooting xG
Chance quality
xG per shot, distance, how they arrive- xG per shot
- 0.148
- Shots per 90
- 1.05
- Key passes per 90
- 0.59
- Average shot distance
- 9.5m
- From set pieces
- 57%
How their chances arrive
- Crosses
- 5%
- Through balls
- 0%
- Own dribble
- 0%
- Headed
- 35%
What they are for
Roles
penalties, set pieces, crossing, partnerships- Corners and set piecesSupplies 11% of Sunderland’s dead-ball danger, from 5 deliveries that became shots.
- On the pitch63% of the minutes available to them.
Partnerships
- Feeds Eliezer Mayenda2 shots, 0.56 xG
- Feeds Trai Hume2 shots, 0.36 xG
- Fed by Granit Xhaka7 shots, 0.90 xG
- Fed by Nordi Mukiele3 shots, 0.50 xG
A share of the attack says how much runs through Dan Ballard. These say what would have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker or the corner deliverer is not the same as losing a proportional slice of output, and a partnership cuts both ways: the supplier being absent damages the finisher’s numbers too.
Who they play with
Chances received
who supplies them- Granit Xhaka0.9 xG7 shots · 0g
- Nordi Mukiele0.5 xG3 shots · 1g
- Bertrand Traoré0.2 xG1 shot · 0g
- Enzo Le Fée0.2 xG4 shots · 0g
- Lutsharel Geertruida0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
Chances created
who they supply- Eliezer Mayenda0.6 xG2 shots · 0g
- Trai Hume0.4 xG2 shots · 0g
- Brian Brobbey0.4 xG1 shot · 0g
- Noah Sadiki0.1 xG2 shots · 0g
- Reinildo0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
Season record
Involvement in build-up
excludes their own shots and final passesDan Ballard carries 4.2% of Sunderland’s build-up value.
- Build-up per 900.1106% of defenders
- Possession value per 900.20022% of defenders
Ranked against 119 defenders with a comparable sample. Build-up is the value of possessions a player was involved in with their own shots and final passes removed, so it credits the work before the chance. It is a possession-value measure rather than a passing one: it cannot tell a forty-yard carry from two sideways balls, because no pass or carry record exists in this data.
Tackles, blocks and recoveries
per 90 · 2025/26They account for 9.9% of their club’s recorded defensive work.
- Tackles1.3932% of DEF
- Blocks, clearances, interceptions9.7096% of DEF
- Recoveries2.9016% of DEF
- Defensive contribution11.0894% of DEF
Rates from 2,144 minutes, ranked against 113 defenders with a comparable sample. The feed publishes season totals rather than a match-by-match record, so there is no hit rate against a line here. That needs the distribution, which no arithmetic on a total can recover. This statistic begins in 2025/26, so there is no earlier season to compare against.
Match log
most recent first- 1 shot0 OTvs Nottingham Forest
- 1 shot0 OTvs Brighton
- 1 shot0 OTat Leeds
- 1 shot0 OTat Bournemouth
- 1 shot0 OTvs Liverpool
- 1 shot0 OTvs Burnley
- 1 shot0 OTat West Ham
- 2 shots2 OTvs Crystal Palace
- 1 shot0 OTat Brentford
- 2 shots2 OTat Brighton
Solid marks are on target, faded ones off. 10 further appearances produced no shot and are not listed, but are counted in the rates above.