Espen Eskas
Over the last 10 UEFA Champions League games Espen Eskas has officiated, the average is 2.90 cards a match — 27% below the league average of 3.96. That's 2.9 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.9 to 1.0 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 10% of those games (1 of 10), from a 13.7% foul-to-booking rate. These are raw match figures from those games, not odds.
Match cards last 10 games
Career profile
The two numbers that matter are vs league — the multiplier the model applies to a player's booking chance — and conversion, the share of fouls Espen Eskas turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every UEFA Champions League season on record.
| Measure | Eskas | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 2.82 | 3.96 |
| vs league | 0.71× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 14.1% | 18.1% |
| Fouls / match | 20.0 | 21.9 |
| Red cards shown | 1 | — |
| Matches on record | 17 (6 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 UEFA Champions League games Espen Eskas took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atalanta v FC Bayern München10 Mar | 1–6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 22 |
| Qarabağ FK v Newcastle18 Feb | 1–6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20 |
| Bayer 04 Leverkusen v Villarreal28 Jan | 3–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 22 |
| Real Madrid v AS Monaco20 Jan | 6–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 20 |
| Atlético Madrid v Royale Union Saint-Gilloise4 Nov | 3–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 23 |
| Atalanta v Club Brugge KV30 Sep | 2–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 18 |
| FC Barcelona v Borussia Dortmund9 Apr | 4–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 17 |
| Feyenoord v Inter5 Mar | 0–2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 21 |
● a red card in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Espen Eskas give per game?
Espen Eskas averages 2.82 cards a game across 17 UEFA Champions League matches — 29% below the league average of 3.96. On a Espen Eskas appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.71.
Is Espen Eskas a strict referee?
No — more lenient than most. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Espen Eskas runs at 14.1% against a league average of 18.1%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Espen Eskas's record change bet builder card prices?
It should. The referee is the single biggest factor in the to-be-carded market, and the appointment is public before kick-off — so a strict official on a combative player is the archetypal card edge. The player cards guide walks through exactly how the model turns a tendency like this into a price.
How reliable is Espen Eskas's card rate?
It rests on 17 career matches, a solid record. The model shrinks a referee's tendency toward the league average when the sample is thin and discounts its own confidence for officials with young records, so a number like this never gets trusted beyond what the evidence earns.
Rates shown are figures from public match data for context; the model adds shrinkage and an opponent factor, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. It compares against the bookmaker's price as offered — card markets are priced one side only, so that price still carries the bookmaker's margin. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.