Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Péter Gulácsi’s goals prevented at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed goalkeepers, Péter Gulácsi was 0.42 goals over at home and 0.06 goals over away in 2026-27, 4 games against 5. The plain averages are 0.42 and 0.06, a difference of 0.36. Both Champions League games were away.

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 prevented a game over expected

A +0.35 difference in goals prevented over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

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

The games

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Péter Gulácsi’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultPreventedExpected
Sep 8, 2026@Borussia DortmundL0.75-0.00
Sep 14, 2026vsReal BetisL1.78-0.00
Sep 17, 2026@MálagaW-0.50-0.00
Sep 20, 2026vsLevanteW-0.36-0.00
Oct 10, 2026@Real MadridL0.140.00
Oct 17, 2026vsElcheT0.14-0.00
Oct 20, 2026@LiverpoolL-0.800.00
Oct 24, 2026@ValenciaW0.71-0.00
Oct 30, 2026vsEspanyolL0.10-0.00

Method

  • Expected goals are this site’s model of each shot’s chance, from where it was taken, whether it was a header, and how it was set up (a cross, a through ball, a headed pass, or no pass at all), fit on the 105,024 non-penalty shots of the five leagues and the Champions League since 2024-25 and within 3% of the goals scored in each season. Penalties are left out.
  • Expected is what the opponent allowed goalkeepers in its other 2026-27 games, plus 0.00 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for goalkeepers that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s goalkeepers’ goals prevented in his games, 100%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about -1% 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.