Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Esteban Lepaul’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Esteban Lepaul was 0.23 goals over at home and 0.60 goals over away in 2026-27, 4 games against 3. The plain averages are 1.00 and 1.00, a difference of 0.00. Expected was 0.37 goals higher at home than away.

3 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 −0.37 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A 0.00 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Esteban Lepaul’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 23, 2026vsParis Saint-GermainT10.47
Aug 30, 2026vsLe MansW20.79
Sep 6, 2026@AngersW00.59
Sep 11, 2026vsMarseilleW00.79
Sep 19, 2026@LyonL00.35
Oct 11, 2026vsAJ AuxerreW11.03
Oct 18, 2026@Paris FCL30.27

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, 78%.
  • 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.