Lillestrøm v Molde betting guide: Not much separates the two teams

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Competition: Norway Eliteserien
Competition: Sun 16.October
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Åråsen Stadion (12234 seats)

A crucial game in Eliteserien as both squads are battling for the top league positions. With Lillestrøm in 4th position and Molde at 1st, this promises to be an exciting duel. Read on to learn more!

Insights:
  • Lillestrøm have the fewest conceded goals (9) at home in Eliteserien
  • Molde have the fewest conceded goals (21) in Eliteserien

Lillestrøm's stadium, Åråsen Stadion, has a grass surface. Molde have artifical turf 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 Molde when playing on grass; 15 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses from 23 matches. They have scored {46 goals} in these games and conceded 27.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Europa Conference League. That game, against Shamrock Rovers, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Molde.

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Lillestrøm form and stats

26 points is a decent return from 12 Eliteserien games here at Åråsen Stadion for Lillestrøm. The data says 8 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.

It's back home for Lillestrøm, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Viking away with the result 3-0. Olsen (2) and Knudsen found the net in that victory. Olsen, who usually plays near the opponent's goal, was the champion player for the side in that game, collecting a rating of 8.44 (out of 10). Olsen scored two goals.

Ahead of that match, Lillestrøm lost 1-4 at home to Bodø / Glimt.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Lillestrøm have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 5 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 0 and lost 2.

Goals are coming in this team's league rounds, with 5 in a row seeing three or more goals (over 2.5).

Lillestrøm have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Åråsen Stadion with 21 goals in 12 league matches. From these home matches, Lillestrøm have conceded only 9 goals. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Molde form and stats

Rock solid. That's the only way to describe the travels of Molde so far, with 10-2-0 (wins-draws-losses) so far. Those are Eliteserien statistics. In general it has been a productive period now for Molde as they haven't lost any of their last 20 games.

Molde have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Jacob Karlstrom. It's been 274 minutes since they last conceded in Eliteserien.

Two away games in a row for Molde, whose coach Moe could celebrate last time after the Europa Conference League win against Shamrock Rovers. Karlstrom was the team player of the game with the player rating of 7.82. The agile goalkeeper Karlstrom topped it up with a clean sheet.

Before that, Molde secured a home win against HamKam with the score 5-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 7 similar matches played by Molde in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Molde, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

Take note that 8 of this team's 10 latest league fixtures have ended with three or more goals.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Molde are regular goalscorers on their travels. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (10 so far).

Head 2 Head

The participants have faced each other already this season, with the final score Molde - Lillestrøm 1-2 registered in the official records. Last ten meetings with these participants: Lillestrøm won two, Molde were winners in four and we saw four draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

MoldeD. Fofana
D. Fofana
10 goals
MoldeO. Brynhildsen
O. Brynhildsen
9 goals
MoldeM. Kaasa
M. Kaasa
9 goals

Lillestrøm missing players

Molde missing players

Lillestrøm Molde
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
25 12 3 Played P 2 12 25
14 8 2 Won W 1 10 20
5 2 0 Drew D 1 2 3
6 2 1 Lost L 0 0 2
44 21 6 Scored S 4 25 60
28 9 5 Conceded C 1 10 21
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 83% 92%
84% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 76%
60% 42% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 58% 68%
36% 25% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 42% 40%
8% 8% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 33% 32%
56% 42% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 58% 56%
32% 50% 33% Clean Sheets C S 50% 42% 44%
12% 8% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 17% 8%
 
6.5 7.6 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 1 5.2 5.7
5 5.1 4.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6.5 5.9 5
1.2 0.6 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.7 1.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
14 15.1 12.7 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 13.7 15.9
4.6 4.8 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.1 6.1
38% 37% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 51% 39%
 
12.2 10.3 11.3 Shots against (avg) S A 13 12.7 11.3
3.1 2.3 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.5 3.2 2.7
Key stats in Eliteserien this season:
  • Lillestrøm have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Lillestrøm have the fewest conceded goals (9) at home in Eliteserien
  • Lillestrøm haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Molde have not yet lost a game away.
  • Molde have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Molde have the fewest conceded goals (10) away in Eliteserien
  • Molde have the fewest conceded goals (21) in Eliteserien
  • Molde have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9) in Eliteserien
  • Molde have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (12) in Eliteserien
  • Molde have the most clean sheets (11) in Eliteserien
  • Molde have the most clean sheets (5) away in Eliteserien
  • Molde have the most points (32) away in Eliteserien
  • Molde have the most scored goals in the first half (31) in Eliteserien
  • Molde have the the best goal difference (+15) away in Eliteserien
  • Molde have the the best goal difference (+39) in Eliteserien
  • Molde is in the best form (6-0-0) in Eliteserien

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Molde 25 20 3 2 60 21 13 10 1 2 35 11 12 10 2 0 25 10 39 63
2 Bodø / Glimt 25 14 6 5 64 32 13 6 6 1 37 16 12 8 0 4 27 16 32 48
3 Rosenborg 25 13 8 4 56 35 12 10 2 0 30 10 13 3 6 4 26 25 21 47
4 Lillestrøm 25 14 5 6 44 28 12 8 2 2 21 9 13 6 3 4 23 19 16 47
5 Vålerenga 25 13 3 9 46 35 12 9 1 2 27 10 13 4 2 7 19 25 11 42
6 Odd 25 10 5 10 31 39 13 6 1 6 19 20 12 4 4 4 12 19 -8 35
7 Tromsø 25 8 10 7 36 41 12 7 3 2 22 17 13 1 7 5 14 24 -5 34
8 Viking 25 9 6 10 40 41 12 5 4 3 19 13 13 4 2 7 21 28 -1 33
9 Sarpsborg 08 25 10 2 13 47 46 13 6 1 6 24 21 12 4 1 7 23 25 1 32
10 Strømsgodset 25 9 5 11 39 40 13 7 2 4 29 19 12 2 3 7 10 21 -1 32
11 Haugesund 25 8 6 11 36 41 13 6 3 4 23 20 12 2 3 7 13 21 -5 30
12 Aalesund 24 7 7 10 26 38 12 4 4 4 14 16 12 3 3 6 12 22 -12 28
13 HamKam 25 5 11 9 28 36 13 4 5 4 15 14 12 1 6 5 13 22 -8 26
14 Sandefjord 25 6 5 14 37 59 12 1 5 6 19 29 13 5 0 8 18 30 -22 23
15 Kristiansund 25 4 6 15 30 51 12 3 4 5 22 27 13 1 2 10 8 24 -21 18
16 Jerv 24 4 2 18 21 58 12 4 1 7 11 22 12 0 1 11 10 36 -37 14

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Eliteserien is at the top of the Norwegian football league system. Seasons run from March to November with the 16 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 240 fixtures. When all these are played, the top team in the league table is the the “League Winner” while the winner of the cup in Norway is the “Norwegian Champion”.