With the nervous opening fixture out of the way it’s time for the second First Division battle of the season. Nykøbing eagerly anticipate Hvidovre in front of their home support.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Nykøbing form and stats
The previous season, Nykøbing's league statistics were 7 wins, 4 draws and 11 losses, leading to 6th position in the First Division. From these 22 matches they scored 35 goals and conceded 37. Appearing as the host team in the former season Nykøbing managed 4-3-4 (win-draw-lost) with 21 goals and 19 conceded. The first First Division game here at University of Limerick Bowl resulted in a draw. Last season Nykøbing's home game statistics were 6 victories, 4 draws and 6 defeats from 16 games.
Nykøbing drew their last game, also a home match. Fredericia (placed 4th) was the opponent, 2-2 the score. Nykøbing salvaged the draw from a difficult situation against Fredericia, trailing 0-2 at one point. Not giving up resulted in Carlson equalizing.
In the game before, an away victory match versus FC Helsingør with a 3-2 scoreline.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Nykøbing as they are travelling to their away game against HIK in the Landspokal Cup. That match is three days after this one.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Nykøbing at home in the league. 2 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Hvidovre form and stats
Let's have a look at how Hvidovre performed last season in the First Division: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 13 victories, 4 draws and 5 defeats. In total they scored 37 and conceded 22 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 1 and lost 4 with 18/12 goals scored/conceded. The visitors settled for one point in their first First Division away game of the season. During their previous season 16 away games resulted in 7 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats.
Hvidovre has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Næstved for a 2-2 draw.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Horsens that ended 1-1.A new game in only three days for Hvidovre, the Landspokal Cup home match versus FC Helsingør. Busy days.
Hvidovre have the goal stats of 2-2 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Head to head statistics (for the prior ten meetings): Nykøbing won four games, two matches ended with a draw and Hvidovre have four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / sevenTop Goalscorers
  M. Carlson 1 goals |  A. Hassan 1 goals |   M. Spelmann 1 goals |
Nykøbing missing players
Hvidovre missing players
| Nykøbing | Hvidovre | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 12 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 11 | 11 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Nykøbing | Last season | Hvidovre | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 32 | 16 | Played | P | 16 | 32 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 7 | 17 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 17 | 6 | Lost | L | 7 | 9 | ||
| 50 | 30 | Scored | S | 23 | 49 | ||
| 63 | 28 | Conceded | C | 19 | 31 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 94% | ||
| 88% | 88% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 69% | ||
| 69% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 50% | ||
| 44% | 44% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 19% | 25% | ||
| 34% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 6% | 9% | ||
| 66% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 47% | ||
| 6% | 6% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 41% | ||
| 28% | 19% | Failed to Score | F T | 12% | 19% | ||
| 4.6 | 4.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.8 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.8 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.5 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 7.9 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 9.9 | ||
| 4 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.9 | ||
| 39% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 39% | ||
| 10 | 9.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.8 | 8.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.6 | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| 2 | Vendsyssel | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 3 | SønderjyskE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Fredericia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Hvidovre | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Næstved | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Nykøbing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | HB Køge | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Hobro | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Fremad Amager | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Hillerød | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 0 |
| 12 | FC Helsingør | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -6 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Horsens | 32 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 55 | 29 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 9 | 26 | 64 |
| 2 | Lyngby | 32 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 62 | 29 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 31 | 16 | 33 | 63 |
| 3 | Hvidovre | 32 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 49 | 31 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 19 | 18 | 57 |
| 4 | FC Helsingør | 32 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 65 | 44 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 31 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 25 | 21 | 55 |
| 5 | Fredericia | 32 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 55 | 53 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 32 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 31 | 2 | 50 |
| 6 | Nykøbing | 32 | 10 | 5 | 17 | 50 | 63 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 28 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 20 | 35 | -13 | 35 |
