Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Donyell Malen’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Donyell Malen was 0.29 goals over at home and 0.10 goals over away in 2026-27, 6 games against 6. The plain averages are 1.17 and 0.67, a difference of 0.50. Both league games after a Champions League game were away.

goals a game over expected

A +0.19 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.50 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Donyell Malen’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 24, 2026vsFiorentinaW30.79
Aug 31, 2026@LecceW20.67
Sep 5, 2026vsAtalantaW00.47
Sep 10, 2026@FenerbahceT00.92
Sep 14, 2026@TorinoW10.30
Sep 19, 2026vsInternazionaleT00.60
Oct 11, 2026@ComoT00.32
Oct 14, 2026vsReal MadridL20.41
Oct 20, 2026vsSlovan BratislavaW12.35
Oct 24, 2026@NapoliT00.54
Oct 27, 2026vsCagliariW10.64
Oct 31, 2026@UdineseW10.67

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, 79%.
  • 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.