Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Désiré Doué’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Désiré Doué was 0.06 goals over at home and 0.13 goals over away in 2026-27, 4 games against 6. The plain averages are 0.25 and 0.33, a difference of 0.08. Both league games after a Champions League game were away.

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 −0.07 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A −0.08 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Désiré Doué’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 23, 2026@Stade RennaisT00.29
Aug 28, 2026@LilleT00.10
Sep 4, 2026vsAS MonacoL00.16
Sep 13, 2026@BrestW00.24
Sep 20, 2026@MarseilleW00.21
Oct 10, 2026vsLe MansW00.30
Oct 14, 2026@Manchester CityW10.12
Oct 17, 2026@StrasbourgW10.23
Oct 20, 2026vsBarcelonaW10.16
Oct 26, 2026vsLyonW00.13

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, 27%.
  • 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.