Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Christopher Nkunku’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Christopher Nkunku was 0.70 goals over at home and 0.24 goals under away in 2026-27, 4 games against 5. The plain averages are 1.00 and 0.00, a difference of 1.00.

4 games at home 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 +0.95 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 18 times in 100.

A +1.00 difference in goals at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 19 times in 100.

The games

at homeaway
Christopher Nkunku’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 29, 2026vsBorussia MönchengladbachW00.40
Sep 5, 2026@Werder BremenL00.13
Sep 10, 2026@ComoL00.18
Sep 13, 2026vsHamburg SVW10.46
Sep 20, 2026@Bayer LeverkusenL00.60
Oct 10, 2026vsEintracht FrankfurtW30.30
Oct 13, 2026vsPSV EindhovenW00.03
Oct 17, 2026@Bayern MunichL00.11
Oct 21, 2026@Real MadridL00.19

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, 44%.
  • 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.