Home advantage could prove decisive in HK - Keflavík battle

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Competition: Iceland Pepsideild
Competition: Wed 09.Aug
Match begins: 19:15 (UTC)
Venue: Kórinn (1564 seats)

The home fans await three points in this match, as the home advantage should work versus a struggling visitor. HK are in 8th place while the guesting Keflavík lose sleep at 12th.

Insights:
  • HK have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • Keflavík have the fewest scored goals (17) in Pepsideild

HK's stadium, Kórinn, has a artifical turf surface. Keflavík 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 Keflavík when playing on artifical turf; 6 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses from 13 matches. They have scored {26 goals} in these games and conceded 19.

Both contenders have had adequate rest since their last match. Let's trust this will be an active fixture!

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HK form and stats

HK have played 8 Pepsideild games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-3-3 (wins-draws-losses). The trend of drawing games is also valid regardless of arena as HK has four draws from their last four matches.

HK drew their last game, 1-1 away at KA (placed 7th).

Before that, HK drew at home versus Stjarnan.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does HK handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

There will be little rest for HK after this match as they are travelling to Vikingur Reykjavik for a Pepsideild game in only four days.

HK are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 11 goals in 8 games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 14 goals have been conceded.

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Keflavík form and stats

There's been little loot from Keflavík's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 8 away games in the Pepsideild. Keflavík only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 3 draws.

This game can not go any worse than the previous one, the home defeat versus FH with 2-3 on the scoreboard.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 3-4 defeat against KA.

Keflavík are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.

After this away game Keflavík return home for a Pepsideild game against Valur. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The attacking power of Keflavík when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 8 league matches away. Keflavík have conceded 14 goals in these games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

These competitors have met before this season: Keflavík - HK 0-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - one - five (HK wins - draws - Keflavík wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

HKÖ. Eggertsson
Ö. Eggertsson
6 goals
HKA. Atlason
A. Atlason
4 goals
HKA. Andrason
A. Andrason
4 goals

HK missing players

Keflavík missing players

HK Keflavík
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 8 2 Played P 3 8 17
5 2 1 Won W 0 1 1
5 3 1 Drew D 1 3 7
7 3 0 Lost L 2 4 9
28 11 2 Scored S 1 6 17
33 14 1 Conceded C 4 14 33
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 75% 82%
82% 88% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 75% 82%
53% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 47%
35% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 35%
35% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 29%
65% 75% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 62% 65%
24% 12% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 18%
18% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 38% 35%
 
3.9 3.1 2.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 3.9 4.6
6.8 6.4 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.5 6.4
2.2 2.6 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.7 2.9 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
9.7 9.8 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 5.3 6.6 8
4.3 4 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.8 3.2
38% 34% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 27% 31%
 
12.5 11.8 11.5 Shots against (avg) S A 10.3 12.9 12.5
5.5 5.1 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 6 5.9
Key stats in Pepsideild this season:
  • HK have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • HK have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • HK haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Keflavík have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Keflavík have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Keflavík have the fewest scored goals (17) in Pepsideild

  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 17 12 2 3 42 14 8 5 2 1 14 7 9 7 0 2 28 7 28 38
3 Breidablik 18 10 4 4 38 27 9 5 2 2 25 17 9 5 2 2 13 10 11 34
4 Stjarnan 18 7 4 7 34 22 9 6 1 2 26 10 9 1 3 5 8 12 12 25
5 KR 18 7 4 7 21 29 9 4 1 4 8 9 9 3 3 3 13 20 -8 25
6 FH 16 7 3 6 31 33 7 5 1 1 18 10 9 2 2 5 13 23 -2 24
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 18 5 2 11 19 36 9 4 1 4 11 11 9 1 1 7 8 25 -17 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 Keflavík 17 1 7 9 17 33 9 0 4 5 11 19 8 1 3 4 6 14 -16 10

Read more about Pepsideild

The Úrvalsdeild karla (meaning Men’s Select division) is the highest level of football in Iceland. It has also been known by the sponsorship name Pepsideild. Twelve teams play a season from April to September, each playing 22 fixtures to decide the final league table and the Icelandic champion.