Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Horsens & Silkeborg face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Landspokal Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Silkeborg could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Superliga game only three sleeps ago.
It should be mentioned that Silkeborg play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Silkeborg on grass are 15 victories, 11 draws and 14 defeats from 40 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 66-56. You can compare this with overall results below.
Horsens form and stats
Action has already taken place for Horsens in Landspokal Cup as they have defeated Sædding / Guldager and Varde IF Elite to reach the 3rd Round. Horsens was eliminated in the 8th finals last season in the Landspokal Cup.1-0-3 (win-draw-lost) are the First Division numbers at home for Horsens so far this season.
Happy days for Horsens in their previous game, a First Division match away at Hobro that ended with a 3-0 victory.
Before that game, the home loss against Fredericia with the scoreline 1-3.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Horsens, as the First Division home game vs Nykøbing is only three days away.
Horsens aren't scoring a lot here at CASA Arena Horsens in the league, with only 3 goals from 4 games. Horsens have conceded 7 from these games.
Silkeborg form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Skive in order to reach 3rd round of Landspokal Cup. They also participated in Landspokal Cup last season. This ended in the 2nd round.The visitors are W0-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Superliga.
Silkeborg failed to get anything from their last game, a Superliga home match vs AGF that ended with defeat 0-2. Defender Gustav Dahl was the best team player with a rating of 7.6. Dahl hit one key pass and won 9 of 11 duels.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Brøndby.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Silkeborg manager K. Nielsen as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Vejle.
Silkeborg are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 2 goals from 4 away games. Silkeborg have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - five - two (Horsens wins - draws - Silkeborg wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Tengstedt 6 goals | M. Jensen 3 goals |  T. Søndergaard Lange 3 goals |
Horsens missing players
Silkeborg missing players
| Horsens | Silkeborg | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 3 | Won | W | 4 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 7 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | ||
| 46 | 13 | Scored | S | 21 | 46 | ||
| 35 | 18 | Conceded | C | 14 | 21 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 84% | ||
| 84% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 76% | ||
| 64% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 46% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 24% | ||
| 56% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 28% | ||
| 5.1 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 5.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 5.4 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.9 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10.3 | 10.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.2 | 13.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 5.6 | ||
| 38% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 34% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | FC Helsingør | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 15 | 23 |
| 2 | Fredericia | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | Hvidovre | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 18 |
| 4 | Lyngby | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| 5 | Horsens | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 16 |
| 6 | Nykøbing | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 12 |
| 7 | Esbjerg | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -7 | 9 |
| 8 | Jammerbugt | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -12 | 8 |
| 9 | HB Køge | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -7 | 6 |
| 10 | Fremad Amager | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 6 |
| 11 | Vendsyssel | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -4 | 5 |
| 12 | Hobro | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -10 | 4 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Midtjylland | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 21 |
| 2 | København | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 13 | 20 |
| 3 | AaB | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 18 |
| 4 | Randers | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 17 |
| 5 | Nordsjælland | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 13 |
| 6 | Silkeborg | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 11 |
| 7 | OB | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 10 |
| 8 | Viborg | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | -4 | 9 |
| 9 | AGF | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -4 | 9 |
| 10 | Brøndby | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -2 | 8 |
| 11 | SønderjyskE | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 8 |
| 12 | Vejle | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -14 | 2 |
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