Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Franco Mastantuono’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Franco Mastantuono was 0.32 goals under at home and 0.49 goals over away in 2026-27, 5 games against 4. The plain averages are 0.00 and 0.75, a difference of 0.75.

4 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 −0.81 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 11 times in 100.

A −0.75 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Franco Mastantuono’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 24, 2026@AS RomaL00.21
Aug 29, 2026vsFrosinoneL00.31
Sep 5, 2026vsTorinoL00.27
Sep 11, 2026@VeneziaW30.29
Sep 20, 2026vsNapoliT00.45
Oct 10, 2026@GenoaL00.24
Oct 18, 2026vsComoL00.28
Oct 25, 2026@InternazionaleL00.31
Oct 29, 2026vsAtalantaT00.30

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, 50%.
  • 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.