There's no exiting this stadium without a winner tonight as it's the second leg of the Europa League Play-offs meeting between Aberdeen and Häcken. Game on!
It's quite the trip for Häcken when visiting Aberdeen as the cities are 2400 kilometers apart.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Aberdeen form and stats
An away draw last time out for Aberdeen, facing St. Mirren in a game that ended 2-2. The host team have an in-form goalscorer in Miovski, having scored in four consecutive matches.
In the match before, 2-2 away to Häcken (Europa League). This is expected to be a close game, with Aberdeen perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Aberdeen as a small favourite), we find 4 games. Aberdeen has won 3 of these, drawn 0 and lost 1.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Premiership game versus Hibernian in only three days. This game is also played here at Pittodrie Stadium.
Häcken form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Zalgiris in order to reach play-offs of Europa League.Playing away, Häcken have won 4 games, drawn 2 and suffered 4 defeats in the Allsvenskan this season. Total Europa League statistics for Häcken: 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.
Häcken play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 2-4 to IFK Göteborg. A bonkers match with plenty of goals last time out for Häcken, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that entertaining match, will this fixture be as exciting? Midfield player Romeo was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.43/10. Romeo scored one goal, hit one key pass and had 41 successful passes (of 49 total).
One game before, 2-2 at home vs Aberdeen in the Europa League. So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Häcken playing away and similar expectations, we found 5 relevant matches. Results were 2 Häcken wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
Häcken have another match that requires travelling in just three days, a Allsvenskan game vs Degerfors. A strenuous diary for the guests!
Häcken are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 16 times in 10 away games so far. 13 goals have been conceded by Häcken in these games.
Head 2 Head
The two teams involved faced each other earlier this match year: Häcken - Aberdeen 2-2. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's one Aberdeen victory, one draw and one Häcken win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less. The matches between these teams have had a tendency to be hostile, having seen 2 sending-offs from the last three duels.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Rygaard Jensen 6 goals |  I. Sadiq 5 goals |  E. Hovland 5 goals |
Aberdeen missing players
Häcken missing players
| Aberdeen | Häcken | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 9 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 15 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 5 | ||
| 42 | 16 | Scored | S | 19 | 61 | ||
| 35 | 7 | Conceded | C | 14 | 29 | ||
| 92% | 89% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 78% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 80% | ||
| 60% | 56% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 60% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | ||
| 44% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 24% | ||
| 28% | 11% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 20% | ||
| 5.3 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 6.3 | ||
| 6.4 | 6.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4.8 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.1 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 11 | 12.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.9 | 15.6 | ||
| 3.7 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 6.6 | ||
| 45% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 37% | ||
| 13.3 | 12.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.7 | 13.6 | ||
| 4.7 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Elfsborg | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 28 | 45 |
| 2 | Häcken | 21 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 52 | 26 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 26 | 44 |
| 3 | Malmö FF | 20 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 41 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 25 | 42 |
| 4 | Djurgården | 21 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 31 | 25 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 37 |
| 5 | Norrköping | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 34 |
| 6 | Hammarby | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 27 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 1 | 32 |
| 7 | Kalmar | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 24 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 17 | -5 | 30 |
| 8 | Mjallby | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 24 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -4 | 28 |
| 9 | Varnamo | 21 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 22 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 14 | -2 | 26 |
| 10 | Brommapojkarna | 21 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 27 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 19 | -7 | 26 |
| 11 | Halmstad | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 34 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 20 | -15 | 26 |
| 12 | IFK Göteborg | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 26 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -3 | 22 |
| 13 | Sirius | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 26 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -5 | 20 |
| 14 | Degerfors | 21 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 21 | 47 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 30 | -26 | 20 |
| 15 | AIK | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 26 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | -7 | 19 |
| 16 | Varberg | 20 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 38 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | -22 | 11 |
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- Evening Express - (local newspaper)
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- Svenska Fans: Häcken - (supporter blog)
