Soccer game news: Home supporters with high expectations before Midtjylland - AaB

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Competition: Denmark Superliga
Competition: Sun 20.February
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: MCH Arena (11809 seats)

A crucial fixture in Superliga as both squads are battling for the top positions. With Midtjylland in 1st place and AaB at 4th, this is almost guaranteed to be an exciting duel. Read on to learn more!

Insights:
  • Midtjylland have the most clean sheets (8) in Superliga

There have been little to rest for the home side, as they featured in a Europa Conference League fixture only three days earlier. Thankfully the previous game, versus PAOK, was also a home game here at MCH Arena. The away team is better rested.

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Midtjylland form and stats

18 points is a decent return from 8 Superliga games here at MCH Arena for Midtjylland. The data says 6 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses.

Defender Juninho got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.6/10. Juninho won 9 of 14 duels.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Midtjylland matches with similar probabilities have ended with four wins, one draw and one defeat (from six games).

Midtjylland are traveling soon after this match as the Europa Conference League match at PAOK awaits in four days.

The Midtjylland manager Henriksen has got the team scoring with 19 from 8 home games in the league. Midtjylland have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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AaB form and stats

4-3-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for AaB in their Superliga matches away. AaB has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

The manager Corvillo was unhappy after their last game, played at their home venue Aalborg Portland Park. AaB suffered a 1-3 loss to København (placed 2nd). Midfielder Prip was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.15. Prip scored one goal, dribled past the opponent 3 of 6 times and had 21 successful passes (of 26 total).

A loss against København was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of AaB when being an outsider away as they are today, we find five matches with the visitors losing two times, drawing one and winning two games.

The visiting AaB have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 9 games.

Head 2 Head

AaB - Midtjylland 0-1 was the story when these teams formerly did battle, also in this season. Midtjylland-AaB H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Midtjylland eight wins, AaB one win, one draw. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

MidtjyllandJ. dos Santos Júnior
J. dos Santos Júnior
7 goals
AaBL. Prip Andreasen
L. Prip Andreasen
7 goals
AaBI. Fossum
I. Fossum
6 goals

Midtjylland missing players

AaB missing players

Midtjylland AaB
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 8 1 Played P 2 9 17
11 6 0 Won W 0 4 8
2 0 0 Drew D 1 3 4
4 2 1 Lost L 1 2 5
31 19 1 Scored S 3 13 27
16 7 2 Conceded C 4 9 20
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
82% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 76%
53% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 44% 47%
29% 38% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 35%
12% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 12%
41% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 56% 53%
47% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 35%
12% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 18%
 
5.1 4.8 2 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 5.8 6.2
4.6 5 6 Corners against (avg) C A 3 5.8 5.3
1.6 1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 2.2
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
14.6 15.9 12 Shots (avg) S ( 7 11.2 11.1
5.6 6.2 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.1 4.1
33% 38% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 35% 39%
 
10.4 11.1 12 Shots against (avg) S A 13.5 11.4 12.3
4 4.1 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.2 4.3
Key stats in Superliga this season:
  • Midtjylland have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Midtjylland have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Midtjylland have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Midtjylland have the most clean sheets (8) in Superliga
  • Midtjylland have the most scored goals (19) at home in Superliga
  • Midtjylland have the the best goal difference (+12) at home in Superliga
  • Midtjylland 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 17 11 2 4 31 16 8 6 0 2 19 7 9 5 2 2 12 9 15 35
2 København 17 9 6 2 34 13 8 3 4 1 13 7 9 6 2 1 21 6 21 33
3 Brøndby 17 8 6 3 25 20 9 6 2 1 14 8 8 2 4 2 11 12 5 30
4 AaB 17 8 4 5 27 20 8 4 1 3 14 11 9 4 3 2 13 9 7 28
5 Randers 17 8 4 5 23 19 9 4 3 2 13 11 8 4 1 3 10 8 4 28
6 Silkeborg 17 5 10 2 26 16 8 3 4 1 11 6 9 2 6 1 15 10 10 25
7 AGF 17 5 6 6 15 19 9 4 3 2 12 9 8 1 3 4 3 10 -4 21
8 Viborg 17 4 8 5 26 27 9 1 4 4 10 13 8 3 4 1 16 14 -1 20
9 OB 17 4 7 6 25 24 9 3 3 3 16 11 8 1 4 3 9 13 1 19
10 Nordsjælland 17 4 4 9 20 31 8 2 3 3 11 14 9 2 1 6 9 17 -11 16
11 SønderjyskE 17 2 4 11 11 33 8 2 2 4 6 16 9 0 2 7 5 17 -22 10
12 Vejle 17 2 3 12 16 41 9 2 3 4 11 16 8 0 0 8 5 25 -25 9

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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.