Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Pio Esposito’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Pio Esposito was 0.24 goals over at home and 0.07 goals under away in 2026-27, 6 games against 5. The plain averages are 0.33 and 0.00, a difference of 0.33.

goals a game over expected

A +0.31 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.33 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Pio Esposito’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 22, 2026vsMonzaW10.08
Aug 30, 2026@CagliariW00.09
Sep 5, 2026vsNapoliW00.09
Sep 14, 2026vsUdineseW10.10
Sep 19, 2026@AS RomaT00.03
Oct 10, 2026vsParmaW00.09
Oct 13, 2026vsClub BruggeL00.06
Oct 17, 2026@BolognaW00.03
Oct 25, 2026vsFiorentinaW00.15
Oct 28, 2026@VeneziaW00.12
Oct 31, 2026@AC MilanL00.07

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, 13%.
  • 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.