Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Iago Aspas’ goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Iago Aspas was 0.07 goals under at home and 0.26 goals under away in 2026-27, 5 games against 4. The plain averages are 0.20 and 0.00, a difference of 0.20. Both games vs top-half teams were at home.

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

A +0.20 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Iago Aspas’ games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 22, 2026@ValenciaT00.17
Aug 27, 2026vsOsasunaL10.39
Aug 30, 2026vsAthletic ClubL00.15
Sep 3, 2026@Real SociedadT00.31
Sep 7, 2026@GetafeT00.17
Sep 13, 2026vsMálagaT00.27
Oct 18, 2026vsAlavésW00.36
Oct 25, 2026vsReal BetisT00.20
Oct 31, 2026@Rayo VallecanoL00.41

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, 33%.
  • 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.