Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Luis Díaz’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Luis Díaz was 0.59 goals over at home and 0.08 goals under away in 2026-27, 5 games against 4. The plain averages are 0.80 and 0.25, a difference of 0.55.

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 +0.68 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.55 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Luis Díaz’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 28, 2026vsVfB StuttgartW10.28
Sep 5, 2026@Schalke 04T00.20
Sep 10, 2026vsBodo/GlimtW00.19
Sep 13, 2026@SV ElversbergW00.34
Sep 18, 2026vs1. FC Union BerlinW00.21
Oct 10, 2026@FC AugsburgT00.34
Oct 13, 2026@Viking FKT10.45
Oct 17, 2026vsRB LeipzigW30.28
Oct 21, 2026vsArsenalT00.06

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, 38%.
  • 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.