Is the demise of the home win specific to English football?

chickendinner sees if away wins are on the rise in the continent

On Monday, chickendinner revealed that the current percentage of away wins in the Premier League (34%) is the highest it has ever been in the English top-flight. Today we have expanded our research to look at some of the big three European leagues - La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga - to see if the same trend of away wins rising and home wins falling is present there:

La Liga
This season there has been a 48% home win rate with 29% away wins in Spain’s top tier, creating a margin of 19% compared to just 7% in the Premier League. There is no sign of away wins becoming more common in Spain recently, as 29% was the figure in both the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons. The average of the ten seasons prior to this one was 26% but the figure has remained constant for two-and-a-half seasons now and is still lower than that of the Premier League’s.

Serie A

Posted: December 17th, 2008 by Michael Lintorn | Add Comment

It looks like forty points won’t be enough to survive this year

Five stats about this weekend’s football

1. Eighteen Premier League teams are currently on course to score forty points this season, which is supposedly enough to keep you up. This will be a concern to West Ham, who in 2002-03 became the only team ever to be relegated with over 40 points in the 20 team Premier League.

2. Last week chickendinner revealed that Blackburn have half as many points now as they did at this stage last season. However Paul Ince’s predecessor Mark Hughes has experienced just as much of a decline at Manchester City. They have eighteen points compared to 33 points after seventeen games last year and are fourth-bottom compared to fourth-top twelve months ago.

Posted: December 15th, 2008 by Michael Lintorn | Add Comment