Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Samuel Mbangula’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed forwards, Samuel Mbangula was 0.46 goals under at home and 0.75 goals over away in 2026-27, 2 games against 3. The plain averages are 0.00 and 1.00, a difference of 1.00. Both games vs top-half teams were away.

2 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 −1.22 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A −1.00 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Samuel Mbangula’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Sep 6, 2026vsSassuoloT00.66
Sep 13, 2026@NapoliL00.32
Oct 24, 2026@CagliariW00.28
Oct 28, 2026@AC MilanW30.13
Oct 31, 2026vsMonzaW00.27

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, 43%.
  • 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.