Nuno da Costa
Cape Verde · FW · age 35
2026 World Cup squad profile
- Team
- Cape Verde
- Position
- FW
- Squad role
- Bench
- Position rank
- #8
- Intl caps
- 7
- Intl goals
- 1
- Intl assists
- 0
- Composite rating
- 0.23(model rating, 0–1)
- P(scores ≥1)
- 18.1%
84
Career matches
5,000
Career minutes
16
Goals
7
Assists
12.2
xG
Career percentiles
Goals / 90
0.29
29
xG / 90
0.22
68
xAG / 90
0.09
69
vs 189 FW players with ≥3,000 career minutes in the dataset. Higher = better.
Career — goals & xG by season
GoalsxG
Season-by-season
| Season | Club | League | MP | Mins | Goals | Assists | xG | xAG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | Strasbourg | Ligue 1 | 26 | 1,727 | 5 | 2 | 4.2 | 0.6 |
| 2018-19 | Strasbourg | Ligue 1 | 34 | 2,052 | 8 | 5 | 5.4 | 3.0 |
| 2019-20 | Strasbourg | Ligue 1 | 14 | 527 | 1 | 0 | 1.3 | 0.2 |
| 2022-23 | Auxerre | Ligue 1 | 10 | 694 | 2 | 0 | 1.3 | 1.0 |
FBref data ≤ 2022-23. Rows tagged wiki are top-scorer entries from Wikipedia and only carry goals.
▸How to read this table— 6 columns explained
- MP
- Matches played in that season (start or sub counts as one).
- Mins
- Total minutes on the pitch — better signal for workload than MP alone.
- Goals
- Goals scored (penalties included).
- Assists
- Passes that directly led to a goal (FBref attribution).
- xG
- Expected goals — per-shot quality scored 0–1 by distance / angle / pressure, summed across the season.
- xAG
- Expected assisted goals — the xG of shots created by this player's passes, summed.
FBref data ends 2022-23; current-season rows tagged wiki come from Wikipedia top-scorer tables and carry only goals.
Full definitions in the glossary.