First Division preview: Can Fredericia edge out victory against Kolding IF?

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Competition: Denmark First Division
Competition: Tue 14.July
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Monjasa Park (4000 seats)

The Fredericia & Kolding IF managers J. Dal and M. Mölkjaer are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the First Division league table.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Fredericia form and stats

When playing at home in the First Division, Fredericia, who have the most conceded goals (30) at home in First Division, have managed 6 wins, 2 draws and suffered 7 defeats from 15 games.

Fredericia's last game was hosting Næstved (placed 11th) and winning 3-2. A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Skive.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Fredericia have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won eight times, drawn one and lost five.

A decent goal production from Fredericia in their home games so far, with 29 goals from 15 league matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Fredericia with 30 goals conceded in these matches.

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Kolding IF form and stats

6-3-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Kolding IF in their First Division matches away.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a First Division home defeat versus Hvidovre with 0-2 on the scoreboard. Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Næstved.

Kolding IF are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, three draws and three defeats. From a total of nine matches.

Kolding IF have scored 22 goals on their travels this season, from 15 away games in the league. Kolding IF's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 23 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Kolding IF - Fredericia 1-2. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's three Fredericia victories, zero draws and zero Kolding IF wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

FredericiaS. Enna
S. Enna
9 goals
Kolding IFJ. Hansen
J. Hansen
9 goals
FredericiaA. Bak Holvad
A. Bak Holvad
8 goals

Fredericia missing players

Kolding IF missing players

Fredericia Kolding IF
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
30 15 2 Played P 2 15 30
14 6 0 Won W 1 6 12
6 2 0 Drew D 0 3 7
10 7 2 Lost L 1 6 11
57 29 2 Scored S 2 22 46
49 30 5 Conceded C 4 23 45
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
90% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 83%
73% 87% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 60% 60%
53% 60% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 33%
23% 27% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 13% 13%
73% 87% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 53% 63%
17% 7% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 13%
10% 7% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 27% 27%
 
6.2 6.5 6 Corners for (avg) C F 2.5 4.1 4.9
4.3 3.5 3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 4.8 4.8
1.9 1.9 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2 1.9
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
392 212 15 Total Shots T S 8 101 244
166 89 7 Shots on Target S O 4 53 110
34% 33% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 42% 42%
Key stats in First Division this season:
  • All of Fredericia's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Fredericia has the most conceded goals (30) at home
  • Fredericia has the most points from losing position (20)
  • Fredericia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Fredericia haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Kolding IF haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Vejle 30 19 7 4 60 26 15 11 1 3 35 14 15 8 6 1 25 12 34 64
2 Viborg 30 16 7 7 61 40 15 7 5 3 34 21 15 9 2 4 27 19 21 55
3 Fredericia 30 14 6 10 57 49 15 6 2 7 29 30 15 8 4 3 28 19 8 48
4 Kolding IF 30 12 7 11 46 45 15 6 4 5 24 22 15 6 3 6 22 23 1 43
5 Fremad Amager 30 11 9 10 38 42 16 7 6 3 27 17 14 4 3 7 11 25 -4 42
6 Vendsyssel 30 11 8 11 32 34 16 5 5 6 13 15 14 6 3 5 19 19 -2 41
7 HB Køge 30 9 12 9 39 41 14 6 4 4 18 17 16 3 8 5 21 24 -2 39
8 Skive 30 10 9 11 40 44 15 6 4 5 21 22 15 4 5 6 19 22 -4 39
9 Hvidovre 30 9 10 11 44 44 14 5 4 5 22 20 16 4 6 6 22 24 0 37
10 Nykøbing 30 7 11 12 45 59 15 4 6 5 22 27 15 3 5 7 23 32 -14 32
11 Næstved 30 5 10 15 27 44 15 4 6 5 15 16 15 1 4 10 12 28 -17 25
12 Roskilde 30 6 6 18 40 61 15 5 4 6 23 25 15 1 2 12 17 36 -21 24

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The 1. Division in Denmark is the second highest football league in Danish football. It has twelve teams playing each other three times. After these 33 fixtures the top team is promoted while number two and three play a promotion playoff. The two weakest teams are relegated.