hai Clubs, Absurd Numbers: Magdeburg Matches Benevento's giao hữu-Season Blitz
1. FC Magdeburg has joined Benevento at the top of the chance-creation charts, racking up 34 goals in five club friendlies at 6.80 xG per game.
Benevento has spent recent weeks setting the pace in club friendlies, averaging 7.00 xG per game and scoring 28 goals across its last four outings. Now another side is pushing into that same territory.
1. FC Magdeburg sits right behind that mark, generating 6.80 xG per game and scoring 34 goals across its last five friendlies. Both clubs are operating at a level that would look extreme in any competitive fixture list, let alone a pre-season or mid-season exhibition slate.
The numbers side by side
- Benevento: 7.00 xG/game, 28 goals in last 4 matches
- 1. FC Magdeburg: 6.80 xG/game, 34 goals in last 5 matches
Magdeburg's total actually edges Benevento 's on raw goal count, six more across một extra match, even with a slightly lower expected-goals rate per game. That gap between the hai metrics is worth sitting with: Benevento is creating marginally better chances on a per-game basis, while Magdeburg has simply put more of its looks away.
Context matters
Both sets of figures come from club friendlies, where opposition quality, squad rotation and match intensity can vary wildly from một fixture to the next. Numbers at this scale rarely survive the jump into competitive football unchanged. Still, repeated performances at this output, across four and five matches respectively, point to something more than a single freak scoreline.
For now, Benevento and Magdeburg stand as the hai most productive attacking sides being tracked in this setting, each turning friendly fixtures into goal-scoring exhibitions rather than low-key tune-ups.