Can AaB defeat Nordsjælland in Aalborg Portland Park clash?

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Competition: Denmark Superliga
Competition: Fri 27.August
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Aalborg Portland Park (13800 seats)

High flying Nordsjælland arrive at AaB after their 3-1-result versus Vejle. Check out our full preview!

Insights:
  • Nordsjælland have won all their away games so far.

The visiting Nordsjælland played their last game only four days ago, a Superliga match.

AaB's stadium, Aalborg Portland Park, has a grass surface. Nordsjælland have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Nordsjælland when playing on grass; 14 wins, 12 draws and 20 losses from 46 matches. They have scored 72 goals in these games and conceded 83.

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AaB form and stats

Only two Superliga home games for AaB so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

AaB shared the glory with Randers in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. Defender Rasmus Thelander got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.33/10. Thelander hit one key pass and won 8 of 11 duels.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Vejle with a 1-0 scoreline.

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 AaB have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eleven games) they have won six times, drawn one and lost four.

The manager M. Cifuentes Corvillo will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to FIUK in only four days.

AaB has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Nordsjælland form and stats

Nordsjælland are on a winning streak away after three games, as mentioned below. A maximum 6 points in the bag from 2 travels in the Superliga. The fact that Nordsjælland have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.

Nordsjælland had fun at their own home (Aalborg Portland Park) last time out, beating Vejle 3-1. Oliver Antman and Andreas Schjelderup (2) scored. Attacker Andreas Schjelderup got a player rating of 8.14 in the game. "Man of the match" Schjelderup scored two goals, dribled passed the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 32 successful passes (of 37 total). Goalkeeper Eduardo Dos Santos Haesler was absolutely vital in the Nordsjælland victory against Vejle, making six saves.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Brøndby with the score of 1-0.

Nordsjælland 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 six defeats. From a total of twelve matches.

It's early days yet, but Nordsjælland has scored 3 and conceded 0 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).

Head 2 Head

Head to head data (for the previous ten meetings): AaB won one game, five matches ended in a draw and Nordsjælland managed four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five

Top Goalscorers

NordsjællandA. Schjelderup
A. Schjelderup
3 goals
AaBI. Fossum
I. Fossum
2 goals
NordsjællandO. Villadsen
O. Villadsen
2 goals

AaB missing players

Nordsjælland missing players

AaB Nordsjælland
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
6 2 1 Played P 0 2 6
2 1 0 Won W 0 2 4
3 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
1 1 1 Lost L 0 0 1
6 2 0 Scored S 0 3 10
4 1 1 Conceded C 0 0 4
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 83%
50% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 67%
17% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 50%
17% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 50%
50% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 50%
33% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 17%
 
6 5 5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 6 5.3
5.3 7.5 6 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5 5.7
2.2 1.5 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.2 5.5 4 Shots (avg) S ( 0 13 14.3
3.8 1.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3 4
26% 67% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 50% 42%
Key stats in Superliga this season:
  • Nordsjælland have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Nordsjælland have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Nordsjælland have won all their away games so far.

  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 6 5 0 1 13 3 3 2 0 1 8 3 3 3 0 0 5 0 10 15
2 København 6 4 2 0 13 5 4 2 2 0 8 4 2 2 0 0 5 1 8 14
3 Randers 6 4 2 0 9 4 3 1 2 0 3 2 3 3 0 0 6 2 5 14
4 Nordsjælland 6 4 1 1 10 4 4 2 1 1 7 4 2 2 0 0 3 0 6 13
5 AaB 6 2 3 1 6 4 2 1 0 1 2 1 4 1 3 0 4 3 2 9
6 Silkeborg 6 1 4 1 5 5 3 1 2 0 4 1 3 0 2 1 1 4 0 7
7 Viborg 6 2 1 3 7 10 3 1 0 2 3 4 3 1 1 1 4 6 -3 7
8 OB 6 1 3 2 7 10 3 0 2 1 3 5 3 1 1 1 4 5 -3 6
9 Brøndby 6 0 4 2 8 11 2 0 1 1 1 2 4 0 3 1 7 9 -3 4
10 SønderjyskE 6 1 1 4 1 7 3 1 0 2 1 4 3 0 1 2 0 3 -6 4
11 AGF 6 0 2 4 3 10 3 0 1 2 3 6 3 0 1 2 0 4 -7 2
12 Vejle 6 0 1 5 4 13 3 0 1 2 2 5 3 0 0 3 2 8 -9 1

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Superligaen (The Danish Superliga) is the top level football league in Denmark. It has 14 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 182 matches to create a league table. This is followed by top and bottom half playoffs. The full season runs from July to May with a two month winter break.