Delightful dogfight as daring Midtjylland duel with determined Silkeborg

13 - 7 - 11 with 63-42. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Silkeborg when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Silkeborg play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.

Midtjylland have less rest than Silkeborg in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Champions League game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus AEK Larnaca, was also a home game here at MCH Arena. The away team is better rested.

Midtjylland form and stats

The season before, Midtjylland's league statistics were 13 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses, ending with 2nd position in the Superliga. In these 22 matches they scored 37 goals and let in 22. Performing as the home side in the last season Midtjylland delivered 7-0-4 (win-draw-lost) with 22 goals and 11 conceded. A Superliga draw at home so far for Midtjylland. Last season their home statistics were 10 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats from 16 matches.

The home fans witnessed a 1-1 draw against AEK Larnaca in the Champions League last time out and are looking for a win here. The attacker Dreyer was named "man of the match" for Midtjylland with the rating of 8.11/10. Dreyer hit the woodwork once, served one assist, hit six key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 21 successful passes (of 25 total).

Before that, Midtjylland drew at home versus Randers.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Midtjylland handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Midtjylland are traveling soon after this match as the Champions League match at AEK Larnaca awaits in four days.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Midtjylland at home in the league. 1 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.

Silkeborg form and stats

Let's have a look at how Silkeborg performed last season in the Superliga: They landed a 6th position in the league table after playing out 7 victories, 10 draws and 5 defeats. In total they scored 34 and conceded 21 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 6 and lost 2 with 20/13 goals scored/conceded. The visitors settled for one point in their first Superliga away game of the season. During their previous season 16 away games resulted in 5 wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Lyngby (placed 5th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 2-2. An inspired comeback made the scores level in Silkeborg's duel with Lyngby. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after Helenius found the equalizer. Helenius, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.42. Helenius scored two goals, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Prior to that match, the Silkeborg manager Nielsen faced defeat when travelling to Brøndby and losing 1-2.

We have checked recent matches where Silkeborg have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 9 games were 0 victories, 5 draws and 4 defeats.

It's early days yet, but Silkeborg has scored 2 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).

Head 2 Head

Statistics for the preceeding ten meetings involving these two squads are: eight wins for Midtjylland, zero draws and two wins for Silkeborg. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

N. Helenius 2 goals

G. Isaksen 1 goals

Midtjylland missing players

Silkeborg missing players