Season ticket holders at Blue Water Arena haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Esbjerg languishing in the 13th position so far. The guesting Nordsjælland will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
Esbjerg and Nordsjælland 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.
Esbjerg have had a bad season and will be relegated from Superliga. Nordsjælland are still fighting for the big positions at the top of the table.
Esbjerg form and stats
Esbjerg have collected 12 points from their Superliga home games so far after 3-3-5.
Esbjerg lost their last game at Lyngby (placed 8th) after a 0-2 scoreline. Previous to that game, a home match hosting København in a game that was won 1-0.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as AGF are coming to town in three days.
Esbjerg are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 11 games. Esbjerg have conceded 15 in these home matches.
Nordsjælland form and stats
There's been little loot from Nordsjælland's travels as they have only collected 11 points from 11 away games in the Superliga. Nordsjælland, who have the most scored goals (42) in Superliga, only have 3 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 2 draws.
Nordsjælland won their last game, 2-1 versus SønderjyskE played at home. A home win before that, celebrating 6-0 vs Horsens.
The travelling fans enjoy Nordsjælland's attacking play in away games, having scored 20 goals in 11 league matches away. The Nordsjælland manager F. Pedersen has some worries about the defense as 23 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Nordsjælland - Esbjerg 2-0 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Esbjerg three wins, five draws and Nordsjælland two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Damsgaard 9 goals |  M. Kudus 8 goals |  I. Atanga 6 goals |
Esbjerg missing players
Nordsjælland missing players
| Esbjerg | Nordsjælland | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 22 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| 18 | 12 | 1 | Scored | S | 9 | 20 | 42 |
| 37 | 15 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 23 | 31 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 77% | 73% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 55% | 55% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 91% | 73% |
| 18% | 18% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 73% | 45% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 18% | 14% |
| 55% | 64% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 91% | 68% |
| 9% | 18% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 9% | 23% |
| 36% | 18% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 4.7 | 4.5 | 2.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 6.7 | 6.4 |
| 5 | 5.3 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2.3 | 2.4 | 3.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 254 | 111 | 29 | Total Shots | T S | 43 | 145 | 302 |
| 83 | 45 | 9 | Shots on Target | S O | 21 | 63 | 116 |
| 22% | 27% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 32% | 36% |
- All of Nordsjælland's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Esbjerg has the fewest scored goals (18)
- Esbjerg has the fewest scored goals in the first half (8)
- Esbjerg have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Esbjerg haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Nordsjælland has the most scored goals (20) away
- Nordsjælland has the most scored goals (42)
- Nordsjælland has the most scored goals in the second half (25)
- Nordsjælland have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Nordsjælland have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Nordsjælland have scored more than double the goals of Esbjerg.
- Nordsjælland haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 22 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 23 | 56 |
| 2 | København | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 38 | 24 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 47 |
| 3 | AGF | 21 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 36 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 39 |
| 4 | Brøndby | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 41 | 32 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 15 | 9 | 35 |
| 5 | Nordsjælland | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 42 | 31 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 23 | 11 | 34 |
| 6 | AaB | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 36 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 34 |
| 7 | Randers | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 35 | 28 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 7 | 31 |
| 8 | Lyngby | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 28 | 35 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -7 | 31 |
| 9 | OB | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 29 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 28 |
| 10 | SønderjyskE | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 28 | 37 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 20 | -9 | 25 |
| 11 | Horsens | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 40 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 21 | -21 | 25 |
| 12 | Hobro | 22 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 21 | 32 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 18 | -11 | 17 |
| 13 | Esbjerg | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 37 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 22 | -19 | 16 |
| 14 | Silkeborg | 22 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 26 | 49 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 25 | -23 | 11 |
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