2nd place in the Pepsideild table for Valur right now, a good showing. The home team ticketholders hope for more points as 7th-placed KA visit Origovöllurinn.
- Valur have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- KA have the most points from losing position (10) in Pepsideild
This football field has artifical turf, which is not KA's familiar surface at their own football field. When playing on artifical turf KA have performed like this: Played twelve matches taking 7 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats with the goal difference 23-15 (scored/conceded).
The visiting KA played their last game only four days ago, a Europa Conference League match. That game was also an away game, at Dundalk. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Valur form and stats
Valur are steadily winning Pepsideild games and points here at Origovöllurinn. 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 8 games. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Origovöllurinn.
The Valur goalkeeper Frederik August Albrecht Schram is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 205 minutes without conceding a goal in the Pepsideild.
A good away victory last time out for Valur, who won 4-0 against KR (placed 6th). As indicated by the result mentioned above, Valur played a great game against KR and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Fram.It should be considered that a look at the 12 latest league fixtures shows that 9 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).
Valur have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Origovöllurinn with 14 goals in 8 league matches. Valur are not conceding a lot of goals here at Origovöllurinn in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 8 matches.
KA form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for KA so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-5 (win-draw-lose).
It's another away match for the visitors, as they travelled to Dundalk in their previous outing. The Europa Conference League fixture ended 2-2.
A draw for KA before that, at their own venue hosting HK (1-1).The schedule is very tough for KA now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Europa Conference League game at Club Brugge is waiting in only two days.
The attacking power of KA when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 7 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The KA manager Jónasson has some worries about the defense as 15 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
KA - Valur 0-4 was the output when these contenders previously met, earlier this season. Valur-KA H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Valur five wins, KA three wins, two draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  T. Haraldsson 9 goals |  A. Pálsson 8 goals |  A. Jóhannsson 6 goals |
Valur missing players
KA missing players
| Valur | KA | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | 7 |
| 42 | 14 | 6 | Scored | S | 0 | 6 | 21 |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 7 | 15 | 30 |
| 94% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 82% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 86% | 88% |
| 65% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 43% | 56% |
| 47% | 25% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 29% | 38% |
| 29% | 25% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 19% |
| 41% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 44% |
| 41% | 38% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 24% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 71% | 50% |
| 5.7 | 7.5 | 8.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 7.3 | 6.7 |
| 5.9 | 5.1 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.7 | 4.6 |
| 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.7 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9.7 | 10.8 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 9.9 | 10.8 |
| 4.9 | 4.1 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.6 | 4.2 |
| 50% | 42% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 24% | 31% |
| 8.5 | 8.9 | 7.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 10.7 | 10.3 |
| 3.1 | 3.1 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 4.1 | 4.2 |
- KA have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- KA have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- KA have the most points from losing position (10) in Pepsideild
- KA haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Valur have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Valur have scored at least twice as many goals at home as KA have scored away.
- Valur have won significantly more corners at home than away.
| 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 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 34 |
| 4 | Stjarnan | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 25 |
| 5 | FH | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 31 | 33 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 23 | -2 | 24 |
| 6 | KR | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 17 | -9 | 22 |
| 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 | Keflavik | 17 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 33 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -16 | 10 |
