Putting Up Numbers· Soccer

Lille’s goals at home and away

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Lille was 0.09 goals under at home and 0.23 goals under away in 2026-27, 7 games against 5. The plain averages are 1.57 and 1.00, a difference of 0.57.

Lille’s +0.14 at home vs away over expected ranks 26th of the 42 teams with 5 games on each side this season.

goals a game over expected

A +0.14 difference in goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A +0.57 difference in goals at home vs away is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were at home and it comes up 14 times in 100.

The games

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Lille’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultgoalsExpected
Aug 23, 2026@AngersW21.61
Aug 28, 2026vsParis Saint-GermainT21.23
Sep 3, 2026@ToulouseW11.49
Sep 8, 2026vsReal BetisL21.36
Sep 13, 2026vsTroyesW21.74
Sep 20, 2026@NiceL11.34
Oct 10, 2026vsLe Havre ACW12.01
Oct 13, 2026@ArsenalL00.60
Oct 17, 2026vsBrestT11.70
Oct 21, 2026vsGalatasarayL21.84
Oct 25, 2026@AS MonacoT11.10
Oct 30, 2026vsLensW11.74

Method

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  • 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.