Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Fulham’s goals at home and away

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Fulham was 0.07 goals over at home and 0.64 goals under away in 2026-27, 4 games against 5. The plain averages are 1.50 and 0.60, a difference of 0.90. Both games vs bottom-half teams 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 a game over expected

A +0.71 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 10 times in 100.

A +0.90 difference in goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Fulham’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 24, 2026vsChelseaL21.34
Aug 30, 2026@SunderlandL01.33
Sep 5, 2026vsCrystal PalaceL21.72
Sep 12, 2026@LiverpoolT01.06
Sep 20, 2026vsManchester UnitedT11.56
Oct 10, 2026@Ipswich TownL11.50
Oct 17, 2026vsHull CityW11.11
Oct 24, 2026@Coventry CityW11.30
Oct 31, 2026@Aston VillaT11.03

Method

Read against .

  • Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every 2026-27 game between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 0.21 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 44% 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.