Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Benjamin Sesko’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Benjamin Sesko was 0.01 goals under at home and 0.35 goals over away in 2026-27, 3 games against 2. The plain averages are 0.33 and 0.50, a difference of 0.17. Expected was 0.19 goals higher at home than away.

2 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 −0.36 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A −0.17 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Benjamin Sesko’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 22, 2026@Hull CityL00.14
Aug 30, 2026vsIpswich TownW00.36
Sep 6, 2026@EvertonT10.16
Sep 10, 2026vsSabah FKW10.36
Sep 13, 2026vsManchester CityL00.30

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, 40%.
  • 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.