The campaign has been grim for Vålerenga up to now, while Brann have taken lots of points. Will the highest placed take a new scalp at Intility Arena?
- Vålerenga have the fewest points (8) at home in Eliteserien
- Brann is in the best form (6-0-0) in Eliteserien
15 - 5 - 9 with 79-40. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Brann when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Brann play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Vålerenga and Brann 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.
Vålerenga form and stats
Vålerenga's struggle is real here at Intility Arena with only 8 points collected from 11 Eliteserien games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-2-7.
It's back home for Vålerenga, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Sandefjord away with the result 2-1. Ilić and Strandberg found the net in that victory. The home team have an in-form goalscorer in Ilić, having bagged a goal in four games in a row. The attacker Ilić won the honour of being "man of the match" for Vålerenga with the rating of 7.43/10. Ilić scored one goal.
Ahead of that match, a home loss in the NM Cup against Bodø / Glimt.
Some goal stats: A review of the 10 most recent league games highlights that 9 of them had goals from both sides.
The Vålerenga fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 16 in 11 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Vålerenga with 23 goals conceded in these matches. When Vålerenga hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Stabæk, Sandefjord, Aalesund, Haugesund and HamKam), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.
Brann form and stats
The visitors are W5-D1-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Eliteserien. Brann have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of six victories in a row regardless of arena.
Two trips in a row for Brann, whose coach Horneland could celebrate last time after the win against Lillestrøm. Soltvedt, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.4. Soltvedt hit three key passes and won 6 of 12 duels.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Tromsø.Brann have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 11 league away games 15 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Brann have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
The participants have played each other previously this season, with the match result Brann - Vålerenga 3-1 entered in the official records. Head to head totals (for the prior ten meetings): Vålerenga won seven games, two matches ended in a draw and Brann got one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Finne 14 goals |  S. Heltne Nilsen 8 goals |   D. Håkans 4 goals |
Vålerenga missing players
Brann missing players
| Vålerenga | Brann | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 23 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 32 | 16 | 2 | Scored | S | 6 | 15 | 41 |
| 39 | 23 | 9 | Conceded | C | 1 | 15 | 25 |
| 91% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 83% | 91% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 91% | 83% |
| 65% | 73% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 45% | 57% |
| 43% | 55% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 36% | 39% |
| 13% | 18% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 70% | 64% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 45% | 52% |
| 17% | 9% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 36% | 35% |
| 22% | 27% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 18% | 17% |
| 5.1 | 6.3 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 10 | 7.3 | 7.3 |
| 4 | 3.3 | 2.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.7 | 4.8 | 4.5 |
| 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.8 | 13.2 | 11.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 20 | 15.7 | 16.1 |
| 4.2 | 4.8 | 2.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.7 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
| 33% | 30% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 25% | 33% |
| 12.5 | 11.6 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.7 | 12.1 | 10.7 |
| 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
- Brann haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Brann is in the best form (6-0-0) in Eliteserien
- Vålerenga have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Vålerenga have the fewest points (8) at home in Eliteserien
- Vålerenga have the most conceded goals (23) at home in Eliteserien
- 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 | 23 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 59 | 29 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 17 | 30 | 52 |
| 2 | Viking | 23 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 50 | 33 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 17 | 51 |
| 3 | Tromsø | 23 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 23 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 48 |
| 4 | Brann | 23 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 41 | 25 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 45 |
| 5 | Molde | 23 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 52 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 28 | 44 |
| 6 | Lillestrøm | 23 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 41 | 36 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 27 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 36 |
| 7 | Sarpsborg 08 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 41 | 36 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 5 | 34 |
| 8 | Odd | 23 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 28 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -3 | 30 |
| 9 | Rosenborg | 23 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 29 | 35 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 20 | -6 | 29 |
| 10 | Strømsgodset | 23 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 26 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 18 | -5 | 27 |
| 11 | Vålerenga | 23 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 32 | 39 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 16 | -7 | 24 |
| 12 | HamKam | 22 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 31 | 46 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 29 | -15 | 24 |
| 13 | Sandefjord | 23 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 35 | 45 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 32 | -10 | 21 |
| 14 | Haugesund | 23 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 17 | -14 | 21 |
| 15 | Stabæk | 22 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 35 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 26 | -16 | 17 |
| 16 | Aalesund | 23 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 52 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 34 | -36 | 12 |
- Vålerenga
- Vålerenga På Nett - (supporter-driven news site)
- Klanen - (supporter site)
- Brann
- Bergens Tidende - (local newspaper)
- Bergensavisen - (local newspaper)
- Bataljonen - (supporter site)
- Eliteserien official site
- VG - (newspaper)
- Aftenposten - (newspaper)
- Dagbladet - (newspaper)
