It's time to decide the outcome of the Champions League 1st Qualifying Round meeting between The New Saints and Häcken. Get ready for the match with this full betting preview!
The New Saints's stadium, Park Hall Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Häcken have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Häcken when playing on artifical turf; 5 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses from twelve matches. They have scored {25 goals} in these games and conceded 21.
Häcken could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Allsvenskan game only three sleeps ago.
The New Saints form and stats
The New Saints was eliminated in the 1st qualifying round last season in the Champions League. Linfield was too strong.The fans hope that Saints will fight back in this game, putting things right after the 1-3 away loss in the Champions League fixture against Häcken.
A win at home ahead of that game, as expected. The team were big favourites against Bala Town and won 6-0.
Häcken form and stats
The visitors are W4-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Allsvenskan.
Jensen, Sadiq and Layouni (2) scored in Häcken's previous match, the home game against Brommapojkarna that ended 4-2. A bizarre game with an abundance of goals last time out for Häcken, as mentioned above. 6 goals in total, will this game be as refreshing? Häcken goalie Abrahamsson was high and low in the Brommapojkarna game, contributing six saves towards the victory. Midfield player Jensen was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.03/10. Jensen scored one goal, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 61 successful passes (of 75 total).
A home win as predicted against The New Saints before that, in the Champions League.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Allsvenskan trip to Varnamo.
Häcken has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 14 goals from 8 games.
Head 2 Head
It's not the first time these two teams meet this season, as the history books show this recent fixture: Häcken - Saints 3-1.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Traore 12 goals |  E. Hovland 5 goals |  M. Rygaard Jensen 5 goals |
The New Saints missing players
Häcken missing players
| The New Saints | Häcken | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 9 | Won | W | 6 | 19 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | ||
| 84 | 41 | Scored | S | 24 | 73 | ||
| 23 | 5 | Conceded | C | 10 | 24 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 88% | 90% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 88% | ||
| 72% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 80% | ||
| 60% | 60% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 60% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 30% | 36% | ||
| 52% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 64% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 12% | ||
| 6.2 | 7.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 6.3 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.2 | ||
| 1 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 0.9 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 16.3 | 20.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 15.5 | ||
| 7.4 | 9.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.1 | 6.7 | ||
| 47% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 44% | ||
| 5 | 4.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 11.8 | ||
| 2.3 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Häcken | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 42 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 24 | 35 |
| 2 | Elfsborg | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 24 | 35 |
| 3 | Malmö FF | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 23 | 34 |
| 4 | Djurgården | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 27 |
| 5 | Halmstad | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 14 | -3 | 24 |
| 6 | Kalmar | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 22 |
| 7 | Norrköping | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 19 |
| 8 | Mjallby | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -2 | 19 |
| 9 | Brommapojkarna | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 15 | -5 | 19 |
| 10 | Hammarby | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 24 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 17 | -5 | 19 |
| 11 | Sirius | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -4 | 17 |
| 12 | Varnamo | 15 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | -5 | 16 |
| 13 | Degerfors | 16 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 40 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 25 | -24 | 14 |
| 14 | AIK | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | -7 | 10 |
| 15 | IFK Göteborg | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -6 | 8 |
| 16 | Varberg | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -17 | 8 |
- Häcken
- Svenska Fans: Häcken - (supporter blog)
