Football news and preview: Vålerenga favourites when Aalesund visit

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Competition: Norway Eliteserien
Competition: Sun 17.Sep
Match begins: 17:15 (UTC)
Venue: Intility Arena (1500 seats)

Eliteserien: Tipsway are looking at an engrossing and vital fight involving Vålerenga and Aalesund at Intility Arena. This duo need points like a fish needs water!

Insights:
  • Vålerenga have the fewest points (5) at home in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund have the fewest scored goals (14) in Eliteserien

Vålerenga and Aalesund should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Vålerenga form and stats

With 1 Eliteserien win, 2 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, Vålerenga are certainly not brimming with confidence. With seven home Eliteserien games in a row without a win, the Vålerenga fans could feel they are not getting value for their money.

Vålerenga drew their last game, 1-1 away at Viking (placed 2nd). Borchgrevink was able to secure the draw 1-1 in the game against Viking after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? Midfield player Strand got a match rating of 7.6 in that game, the max score being 10. Strand hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Odd that ended 2-2.

Vålerenga are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 10 games. Vålerenga have conceded 22 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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Aalesund form and stats

As the visiting team in Eliteserien matches, Aalesund have produced an overall stat of 0-0-10 so far. Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in ten away games in a row.

Aalesund's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Lillestrøm that finished 1-1. The attacker Kristensen got a match rating of 7.64 in that game. Kristensen scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.

Prior to that match, the Aalesund manager Johnsen faced defeat when travelling to Rosenborg and losing 0-4.

Goals are few and far between in Aalesund's away league games. Only {5 goals} from 10 travels. There are big problems for the Aalesund defense as they have conceded 31 goals in 10 away games. When Aalesund is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Stabæk, Sandefjord, Aalesund, Haugesund and HamKam.

Head 2 Head

Vålerenga have managed a sequence of 7 consecutive matches without defeat (4-3-0) when playing Aalesund.

This is what happened when the participants played each other earlier this campaign; Aalesund - Vålerenga 0-1.

Top Goalscorers

VålerengaD. Håkans
D. Håkans
4 goals
VålerengaH. Bjørdal
H. Bjørdal
3 goals

Vålerenga missing players

Aalesund missing players

Vålerenga Aalesund
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 3 10 21
4 1 1 Won W 0 0 3
6 2 1 Drew D 0 0 2
10 7 1 Lost L 3 10 16
25 13 6 Scored S 1 5 14
33 22 4 Conceded C 7 31 48
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
80% 90% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 80% 71%
60% 70% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 80% 62%
40% 50% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 60% 43%
10% 20% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 14%
65% 60% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 50% 43%
20% 10% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
25% 30% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 50% 48%
 
5.2 6.5 9 Corners for (avg) C F 5.7 5.5 5.5
3.8 2.9 1.7 Corners against (avg) C A 9 8.4 7
1.4 1.4 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.5 1.9
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
11.7 13 13.3 Shots (avg) S ( 13 11.1 12.2
4 4.6 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.9 3.3
31% 28% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 17% 20%
 
12.4 11.7 8.7 Shots against (avg) S A 13.7 17.7 16.3
4.3 4.4 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 6.5 5.7
Key stats in Eliteserien this season:
  • Aalesund have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Aalesund have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Aalesund have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Aalesund have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Aalesund have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund have the fewest points (0) away in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund have the fewest scored goals (14) in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund have the most conceded goals (31) away in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund have the most conceded goals (48) in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund have the most conceded goals in the second half (30) in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund have the the worst goal difference (-26) away in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund have the the worst goal difference (-34) in Eliteserien
  • Aalesund haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Vålerenga have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Vålerenga have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Aalesund have scored away.
  • Vålerenga have the fewest points (5) at home in Eliteserien
  • Vålerenga have the most conceded goals (22) at home in Eliteserien
  • Vålerenga have the the worst goal difference (-9) at home in Eliteserien
  • Vålerenga have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Vålerenga have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Vålerenga haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bodø / Glimt 20 14 3 3 52 26 9 6 2 1 23 10 11 8 1 2 29 16 26 45
2 Viking 20 14 3 3 44 26 11 8 2 1 29 15 9 6 1 2 15 11 18 45
3 Tromsø 20 13 3 4 30 20 11 7 2 2 18 10 9 6 1 2 12 10 10 42
4 Molde 20 11 4 5 43 22 9 6 2 1 22 7 11 5 2 4 21 15 21 37
5 Brann 20 11 3 6 36 24 11 8 2 1 24 9 9 3 1 5 12 15 12 36
6 Lillestrøm 20 10 3 7 37 31 10 6 0 4 24 17 10 4 3 3 13 14 6 33
7 Sarpsborg 08 21 9 3 9 37 34 10 5 1 4 21 14 11 4 2 5 16 20 3 30
8 Odd 21 8 5 8 26 26 10 5 2 3 13 10 11 3 3 5 13 16 0 29
9 Rosenborg 21 8 4 9 28 31 11 6 1 4 18 14 10 2 3 5 10 17 -3 28
10 Strømsgodset 20 8 2 10 25 26 10 5 0 5 14 12 10 3 2 5 11 14 -1 26
11 HamKam 20 7 2 11 29 43 11 5 2 4 17 16 9 2 0 7 12 27 -14 23
12 Haugesund 21 5 5 11 19 31 10 4 2 4 14 15 11 1 3 7 5 16 -12 20
13 Vålerenga 20 4 6 10 25 33 10 1 2 7 13 22 10 3 4 3 12 11 -8 18
14 Sandefjord 20 4 6 10 29 39 9 3 4 2 18 11 11 1 2 8 11 28 -10 18
15 Stabæk 19 4 4 11 18 32 9 3 3 3 9 7 10 1 1 8 9 25 -14 16
16 Aalesund 21 3 2 16 14 48 11 3 2 6 9 17 10 0 0 10 5 31 -34 11

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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”.