Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Nico González’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Nico González was 0.12 goals over at home and 0.20 goals under away in 2026-27, 4 games against 2. The plain averages are 0.25 and 0.00, a difference of 0.25.

2 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 +0.33 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

at homeaway
Nico González’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 29, 2026vsParmaW10.14
Sep 6, 2026vsAC MilanT00.14
Sep 13, 2026@SassuoloL00.28
Sep 20, 2026vsAtalantaW00.12
Oct 11, 2026@CagliariT00.13
Oct 18, 2026vsLazioL00.11

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, 20%.
  • 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.