Willy Delajod
Over the last 10 Ligue 1 games Willy Delajod has officiated, the average is 3.40 cards a match — 13% below the league average of 3.89. That splits 3.3 yellow and 0.1 red a game — a red in 1 of the 10. Home and away sides fare about the same here (1.7 v 1.7 a game), where the league tilts +0.3 toward the away side. 5+ cards landed in 20% of those games (2 of 10), from a 12.9% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 30 awarded in 76 matches, 0.39 a game against a league average of 0.36. 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 Willy Delajod turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Ligue 1 season on record.
| Measure | Delajod | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.71 | 3.89 |
| vs league | 0.95× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 14.7% | 15.8% |
| Fouls / match | 25.3 | 24.6 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.39 | 0.36 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 30 in 76 | — |
| Red cards shown | 17 | — |
| Matches on record | 76 (17 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Ligue 1 games Willy Delajod took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lille v Auxerre17 May | 0–2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Olympique de Marseille v Nice26 Apr | 1–1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21 |
| Auxerre v Nantes11 Apr | 0–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 35 |
| Nice v Paris Saint-Germain21 Mar | 0–4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| Nantes v Angers7 Mar | 0–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| RC Lens v AS Monaco21 Feb | 2–3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Paris Saint-Germain v Olympique de Marseille8 Feb | 5–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Lille v RC Strasbourg25 Jan | 1–4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
Frequently asked
How many cards does Willy Delajod give per game?
Willy Delajod averages 3.71 cards a game across 76 Ligue 1 matches — 5% below the league average of 3.89. On a Willy Delajod appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.95.
Is Willy Delajod a strict referee?
No — slightly more lenient than most. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Willy Delajod runs at 14.7% against a league average of 15.8%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Willy Delajod'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 Willy Delajod's card rate?
It rests on 76 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, an opponent factor and de-vigging, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.