Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Alphonso Davies’ goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed defenders, Alphonso Davies was 0.34 goals over at home and 0.03 goals under away in 2026-27, 5 games against 5. The plain averages are 0.40 and 0.00, a difference of 0.40. Both league games after a Champions League game were away.

goals a game over expected

A +0.37 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.40 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Alphonso Davies’ games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 28, 2026vsVfB StuttgartW00.06
Sep 5, 2026@Schalke 04T0-0.00
Sep 10, 2026vsBodo/GlimtW10.00
Sep 13, 2026@SV ElversbergW00.03
Sep 18, 2026vs1. FC Union BerlinW00.12
Oct 10, 2026@FC AugsburgT00.11
Oct 13, 2026@Viking FKT0-0.00
Oct 21, 2026vsArsenalT10.03
Oct 25, 2026@SC FreiburgW0-0.00
Oct 31, 2026vsBorussia DortmundT00.09

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed defenders in its other 2026-27 games, plus 0.01 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for defenders that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s defenders’ goals in his games, 33%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 82% 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.