It's time to decide the outcome of the Europa Conference League 2nd Qualifying Round meeting between Dundalk and KA. Get ready for the match with this full betting preview!
This field has artifical turf, which is not KA's regular surface at their own arena. When playing on artifical turf KA have performed like this: Played eleven matches resulting in 7 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats with the goal numbers 21-13 (scored/conceded).
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for KA, who are travelling more than 3900 kilometers to play this game.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Pepsideild game only four days ago.
Dundalk form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Europa Conference League for Dundalk, as the manager O'Donnell led his troops to eliminate Magpies, and reach the 2nd Qualifying Round. Last season, Dundalk's Europa Conference League journey ended in the 3rd qualifying round against Vitesse.When playing at home in the Premier Division, Dundalk have managed 6 wins, 4 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 12 games. On the other hand, in the Europa Conference League, Dundalk has performed like this (both home and away): 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss.
The fans hope that Dundalk will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-3 away loss in the Europa Conference League fixture against KA.
Preceding that result, a home win against Shamrock Rovers in the FAI Cup.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Shelbourne are coming to town in three days.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (25 in 12 games), Dundalk's attacking play is working. Dundalk have conceded 17 in these home matches.
KA form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Connah's Quay in order to reach 2nd qualifying round of Europa Conference League.KA have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Pepsideild, after 2-0-5 (7 played). The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa Conference League stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses both home and away.
KA's last game was the home draw against HK (1-1).
Before that match, the win at home against Dundalk in the Europa Conference League (3-1). As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and KA playing away, we found 6 games. Results were 1 away win, 4 draws and 1 home win.
The visitors have scored 6 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. The KA manager Jónasson has some worries about the defense as 15 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
KA - Dundalk 3-1 was the scoreline in these squads' previous h2h match, earlier this season. Hauksson likes to meet Dundalk and have scored 2 goals in these matches.
Top Goalscorers
  P. Hoban 10 goals |  J. Martin 4 goals |   B. Adalsteinsson 4 goals |
Dundalk missing players
KA missing players
| Dundalk | KA | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 6 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 34 | 21 | Scored | S | 11 | 42 | ||
| 37 | 20 | Conceded | C | 16 | 37 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 90% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 40% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 58% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 30% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 10% | 20% | ||
| 56% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 30% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 60% | 36% | ||
| 4.5 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.2 | ||
| 2 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.8 | ||
| 5 | 5 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10.7 | 11.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 9.8 | ||
| 3.9 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4 | ||
| 35% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 42% | ||
| 11 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.7 | 9.3 | ||
| 3.9 | 4.1 | 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 | Shamrock Rovers | 25 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 47 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 25 | 47 |
| 2 | St Patrick's | 25 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 47 | 32 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 23 | 15 | 43 |
| 3 | Derry City | 25 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 33 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 43 |
| 4 | Bohemians | 25 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 37 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 42 |
| 5 | Dundalk | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 38 | 33 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 39 |
| 6 | Shelbourne | 25 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 28 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 38 |
| 7 | Sligo Rovers | 25 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 30 | 34 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 19 | -4 | 30 |
| 8 | Drogheda United | 25 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 27 | 33 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 17 | -6 | 29 |
| 9 | Cork City | 25 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 26 | 45 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 28 | -19 | 23 |
| 10 | UCD | 25 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 66 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 25 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 41 | -52 | 9 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Vikingur Reykjavik | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 44 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 31 | 44 |
| 2 | Valur | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 38 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 7 | 24 | 35 |
| 3 | Breidablik | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 34 |
| 4 | Stjarnan | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 32 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| 5 | KR | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 17 | -5 | 22 |
| 6 | FH | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 28 | 31 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 21 | -3 | 21 |
| 7 | KA | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 30 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -9 | 21 |
| 8 | HK | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 33 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 19 | -5 | 20 |
| 9 | IBV | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 34 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 25 | -15 | 17 |
| 10 | Fylkir | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 26 | 37 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | -11 | 16 |
| 11 | Fram | 17 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 25 | 39 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 26 | -14 | 14 |
| 12 | Keflavik | 16 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 30 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -15 | 10 |
