Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Alexander Isak’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Alexander Isak was 0.05 goals over at home and 0.73 goals over away in 2026-27, 6 games against 4. The plain averages are 0.33 and 1.00, a difference of 0.67. Both Champions League games 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 −0.68 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 19 times in 100.

A −0.67 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Alexander Isak’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 23, 2026@Newcastle UnitedT00.35
Aug 29, 2026vsNottingham ForestT10.26
Sep 4, 2026@Ipswich TownW20.44
Sep 9, 2026vsAtlético MadridW00.31
Sep 12, 2026vsFulhamT00.33
Sep 20, 2026@AFC BournemouthW10.09
Oct 17, 2026@BrentfordW10.23
Oct 20, 2026vsVillarrealW00.48
Oct 25, 2026vsBrighton & Hove AlbionW10.19
Nov 1, 2026vsArsenalL00.15

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, 67%.
  • 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.