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Utrecht First Half Goals
In 295 Eredivisie matches, 72.5% of Utrecht’s first halves produced a goal, 19th of the 25 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 51.5% of them and conceded in 43.7%.
What Utrecht’s first halves look like
Travel costs Utrecht at the back: 50.7% of their away matches bring an early goal against, next to 36.7% of home ones. Home advantage arrives early for Utrecht: they open the scoring account before halftime in 57.1% of home matches and only 45.9% of away ones, 11.2pp between them.
Utrecht shade the early exchanges without dominating them: a goal of their own before the break in 51.5% of matches, one against in 43.7%. There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 295 matches against a typical 224.
Utrecht come 19th of 25 in the published Eredivisie field for the share of their first halves that produce a goal. A goal arrives before halftime in 72.5% of Utrecht’s Eredivisie matches. The Eredivisie figure is 75.6%, leaving them 3.1pp short of it. The other 27.5% end level and goalless.
Every figure on this page rests on 295 completed Utrecht matches over 9 seasons (2017 to 2026). That is a large enough sample that the venue rows above are worth reading as two separate records rather than one split in half.
Utrecht first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 72.5% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 39.0% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 13.9% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.29 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 51.5% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 43.7% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.67 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.61 |
| Matches counted | 295 |
| Seasons covered | 9 (2017 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 69.4% | 36.1% | 57.1% | 36.7% | 1.18 | 147 |
| Away | 75.7% | 41.9% | 45.9% | 50.7% | 1.39 | 148 |
Utrecht score before halftime 57.1% of the time at home against 45.9% away, a gap of 11.2pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Utrecht against Eredivisie
| Line | Utrecht | Eredivisie | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 72.5% | 75.6% | −3.1pp |
| Over 1.5 | 39.0% | 40.9% | −1.9pp |
| Over 2.5 | 13.9% | 15.0% | −1.1pp |
Counted from 295 matches · 9 seasons · 2017 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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