Superliga: Two squads in decent shape get together for this match. Nordsjælland have a slight advantage with their 1st position in the league table?
- Midtjylland have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Nordsjælland have the fewest conceded goals (12) in Superliga
This field has grass, which is not Nordsjælland's everyday surface at their own stadium. When playing on grass Nordsjælland have performed like this: Played 36 matches earning 12 wins, 10 draws and 14 defeats with the goal difference 47-48 (scored/conceded).
These are active days for the hometeam, as they had a match only four days ago in the Europa League. Thankfully the previous game, versus Sturm Graz, was also a home game here at MCH Arena. The away team is better rested.
Midtjylland form and stats
Midtjylland's struggle is real here at MCH Arena with only 8 points collected from 8 Superliga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-2-4.
Midtjylland's previous fixture was a Europa League game also played at their own arena, finishing 2-0 against Sturm Graz. The home team hope to to repeat that performance. Dreyer, who plays in attack, was the champion player for the side in that fixture, collecting a rating of 8.34 (out of 10). Dreyer scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Ahead of that match, Midtjylland lost 1-2 at home to OB.This is expected to be a close game, with Midtjylland perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Midtjylland as a small favourite), we find 6 games. Midtjylland has won 3 of these, drawn 2 and lost 1.
The manager Herms will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Viborg in only three days.
Midtjylland have conceded 13 from these games.
Nordsjælland form and stats
Nordsjælland have an excellent away record in the Superliga so far with 4-2-1 from 7 games.
Nordsjælland have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Andreas Hansen. It's been 182 minutes since they last conceded in Superliga.
The fans enjoyed Nordsjælland's previous match versus Horsens (placed 10th), a 2-0 win played at home. Midfield player Bidstrup was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.83/10. Bidstrup hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 75 successful passes (of 76 total).
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Randers.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 11 similar matches played by Nordsjælland in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Nordsjælland, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
Few goals the story here? 9 of this team's most recent 12 league rounds have contained two or less goals.
Nordsjælland have another game away from home in just three sleeps, a Landspokal Cup match vs AGF. A hard programme for the visitors!
The travelling fans enjoy Nordsjælland's attacking play in away games, having scored 11 goals in 7 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Nordsjælland as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Midtjylland have avoided defeat in the last 4 matches (2-2-0) versus Nordsjælland.The records show that this isn''t the first time these two sides meet on the pitch this campaign, as the results database show this recent match: Nordsjælland - Midtjylland 1-1.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Schjelderup 9 goals |   A. Dreyer 8 goals |  E. Appiah Nuamah 5 goals |
Midtjylland missing players
Nordsjælland missing players
| Midtjylland | Nordsjælland | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | 8 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 11 | 24 |
| 22 | 13 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 93% |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 71% | 80% |
| 47% | 50% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 29% | 33% |
| 27% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 29% | 27% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 14% | 7% |
| 73% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 43% | 53% |
| 13% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 43% | 33% |
| 13% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 20% |
| 6.5 | 7.8 | 7.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 6.6 | 5.9 |
| 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
| 2.1 | 1.6 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 14.9 | 17.8 | 17.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 13 | 12.7 |
| 5.4 | 6.1 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| 30% | 16% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 57% | 29% | 30% |
| 11.3 | 10 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16 | 12.4 | 11.1 |
| 3.7 | 3 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
- All of Midtjylland's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Midtjylland have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Midtjylland have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Midtjylland haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Nordsjælland have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Nordsjælland have the fewest conceded goals (12) in Superliga
- Nordsjælland have the fewest conceded goals (5) away in Superliga
- Nordsjælland have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Superliga
- Nordsjælland have the fewest matches over the total-line (5) in Superliga
- Nordsjælland have the most matches under the total-line (10) in Superliga
- Nordsjælland have the most points (14) away in Superliga
- Nordsjælland have the the best goal difference (+12) in Superliga
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Nordsjælland | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 31 |
| 2 | Viborg | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 28 |
| 3 | Randers | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 23 |
| 4 | OB | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | -2 | 22 |
| 5 | Silkeborg | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 21 |
| 6 | København | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 21 |
| 7 | AGF | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 21 |
| 8 | Midtjylland | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 21 |
| 9 | Brøndby | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -3 | 20 |
| 10 | Horsens | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 | -4 | 18 |
| 11 | AaB | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 12 | -6 | 14 |
| 12 | Lyngby | 15 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 29 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -16 | 5 |
