Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Abde Ezzalzouli’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Abde Ezzalzouli was 0.08 goals over at home and 0.34 goals under away in 2026-27, 6 games against 4. The plain averages are 0.67 and 0.00, a difference of 0.67. Both Champions League games were at home. All 3 games vs bottom-half teams were at home.

4 games away is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

goals a game over expected

A +0.42 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.67 difference in goals at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 15 times in 100.

The games

at homeaway
Abde Ezzalzouli’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 29, 2026@LevanteL00.59
Sep 14, 2026@VillarrealW00.25
Sep 17, 2026vsGetafeW10.29
Sep 20, 2026@DeportivoT00.24
Oct 11, 2026vsOsasunaW10.55
Oct 14, 2026vsFC PortoW10.45
Oct 17, 2026vsBarcelonaL10.29
Oct 21, 2026vsFeyenoord RotterdamW01.49
Oct 25, 2026@Celta VigoT00.30
Oct 31, 2026vsMálagaW00.45

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed forwards in its other 2026-27 games, plus 0.09 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for forwards that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s forwards’ goals in his games, 50%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 83% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut into stretches, one a 10 games, where the dates leave the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.