Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Lautaro Martínez’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Lautaro Martínez was 0.62 goals over at home and 0.36 goals over away in 2026-27, 4 games against 3. The plain averages are 1.00 and 0.67, a difference of 0.33. Both second-half games were at home.

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 +0.26 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.33 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Lautaro Martínez’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 22, 2026vsMonzaW00.38
Aug 30, 2026@CagliariW00.45
Sep 5, 2026vsNapoliW20.42
Sep 8, 2026@Real MadridL00.30
Sep 19, 2026@AS RomaT20.16
Oct 10, 2026vsParmaW00.42
Oct 13, 2026vsClub BruggeL20.29

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, 60%.
  • 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.