Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Vitinha’s goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed midfielders, Vitinha was 0.09 goals over at home and 0.29 goals over away in 2026-27, 5 games against 6. The plain averages are 0.20 and 0.33, a difference of 0.13. Both league games after a Champions League game were away.

goals a game over expected

A −0.19 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A −0.13 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Vitinha’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 23, 2026@Stade RennaisT00.07
Aug 28, 2026@LilleT10.04
Sep 4, 2026vsAS MonacoL00.09
Sep 9, 2026vsSlovan BratislavaW00.15
Sep 13, 2026@BrestW00.01
Sep 20, 2026@MarseilleW00.01
Oct 10, 2026vsLe MansW00.15
Oct 14, 2026@Manchester CityW10.02
Oct 17, 2026@StrasbourgW00.13
Oct 20, 2026vsBarcelonaW10.12
Oct 26, 2026vsLyonW00.03

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, 38%.
  • 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.