Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Marquinhos’ goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed defenders, Marquinhos was 0.43 goals over at home and 0.27 goals over away in 2026-27, 2 games against 5. The plain averages are 0.50 and 0.40, a difference of 0.10.

2 games at home 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 +0.16 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.10 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Marquinhos’ games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 23, 2026@Stade RennaisT00.22
Aug 28, 2026@LilleT10.16
Sep 4, 2026vsAS MonacoL10.09
Sep 13, 2026@BrestW00.08
Sep 20, 2026@MarseilleW10.14
Oct 14, 2026@Manchester CityW00.05
Oct 20, 2026vsBarcelonaW00.06

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed defenders in its other 2026-27 games, plus 0.01 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for defenders that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s defenders’ goals in his games, 75%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 82% 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.