Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Nicolas Jackson’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Nicolas Jackson was 0.29 goals over at home and 0.00 goals over away in 2026-27, 7 games against 4. The plain averages are 0.86 and 0.50, a difference of 0.36. Both games vs top-half teams were at home.

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 +0.29 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.36 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Nicolas Jackson’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 31, 2026vsArsenalL00.18
Sep 5, 2026@Hull CityT00.27
Sep 8, 2026@Club BruggeW10.94
Sep 12, 2026vsNottingham ForestL00.39
Sep 19, 2026@Tottenham HotspurW10.27
Oct 10, 2026vsBrentfordT10.48
Oct 14, 2026vsFenerbahceW20.06
Oct 17, 2026@Newcastle UnitedW00.51
Oct 21, 2026vsViking FKW02.06
Oct 24, 2026vsManchester CityW20.48
Oct 31, 2026vsFulhamT10.31

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, 80%.
  • 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.