Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Niclas Füllkrug’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Niclas Füllkrug was 0.74 goals over at home and 0.71 goals over away in 2026-27, 4 games against 4. The plain averages are 1.25 and 1.00, a difference of 0.25. Both games vs bottom-half teams were at home.

4 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 +0.03 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.25 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

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Niclas Füllkrug’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 30, 2026@SC FreiburgL00.44
Sep 5, 2026vsRB LeipzigW10.57
Sep 12, 2026@FC CologneT10.28
Sep 19, 2026vsFC AugsburgW10.55
Oct 9, 2026@Borussia DortmundT10.01
Oct 17, 2026vsSC Paderborn 07T20.22
Oct 24, 2026@MainzW20.44
Oct 31, 2026vsTSG HoffenheimW10.71

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, 69%.
  • 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.