Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Sergio Canales’ goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed midfielders, Sergio Canales was 0.07 goals under at home and 0.16 goals over away in 2026-27, 6 games against 5. The plain averages are 0.00 and 0.20, a difference of 0.20.

goals a game over expected

A −0.23 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 9 times in 100.

A −0.20 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Sergio Canales’ games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 16, 2026vsVillarrealT00.08
Aug 23, 2026@GetafeL00.02
Aug 28, 2026vsElcheW00.09
Sep 5, 2026@Rayo VallecanoL10.04
Sep 12, 2026vsAlavésW00.03
Sep 16, 2026@BarcelonaL00.06
Sep 19, 2026@Celta VigoL00.02
Oct 11, 2026vsValenciaT00.09
Oct 18, 2026@OsasunaL00.08
Oct 24, 2026vsEspanyolW00.07
Nov 1, 2026vsReal MadridL00.07

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed midfielders in its other 2026-27 games, plus 0.10 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for midfielders that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s midfielders’ goals in his games, 25%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 68% 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.