Nordsjælland receive OB as obvious favourites: Full football preview

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Competition: Denmark Superliga
Competition: Sun 08.Oct
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Right to Dream Park (10100 seats)

Welcome to Right to Dream Park and the match involving Nordsjælland & OB in the Superliga. Here's all you should know!

Insights:
  • Nordsjælland have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Superliga
  • OB have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Superliga

It should be mentioned that OB play their home matches on grass, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on artifical turf. Does it matter? Recent statistics for OB on artifical turf are 3 victories, 2 draws and 1 defeat from six games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 11-8. You can compare this with overall results below.

The hosts Nordsjælland saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Europa Conference League. This match was also played here at Right to Dream Park. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, OB have had more rest.

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Nordsjælland form and stats

3 victories, 2 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what Nordsjælland have to build on here at Right to Dream Park in the Superliga. The trend of drawing games is also valid regardless of arena as Nordsjælland has four draws from their last four matches.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 208 minutes without scoring a league goal. Frese was the last player to find the net. Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Andreas Hansen not having conceded a league goal in 216 minutes.

Nordsjælland's previous match was a Europa Conference League game also played at their own stadium, finishing 7-1 versus Ludogorets. The home team hope to to continue in that form. The forward Nygren outshone all others in that match and received a match rating of 8.43 out of 10. Nygren scored two goals, hit one key pass and had 50 successful passes (of 53 total).

Preceding that game was the away draw at Vejle that finished 0-0.

Goals decide football matches and Nordsjælland are scoring many of them at home; 12 on target from 5 league matches. From these home matches, Nordsjælland have conceded only 4 goals.

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OB form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Superliga travels is 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats. It's looking increasingly bleak for OB who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Hvidovre was the last time a defeat was avoided.

OB might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Lyngby proved too strong as OB slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Nature Energy Park. Hajj got a match rating of 8.04 in that game, top player of the team. Hajj hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 41 successful passes (of 49 total).

Ahead of that, the Landspokal Cup win away at Hobro.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 9 of this club's 10 most recent league matches have ended with at least three goals.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, OB are regular goalscorers on their travels. As for defending, OB rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 6 goals from these away matches. OB has visited these top teams two times, and 2 of 2 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - two - five (Nordsjælland wins - draws - OB wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

NordsjællandM. Ingvartsen
M. Ingvartsen
4 goals
OBL. Deedson
L. Deedson
4 goals
OBB. Kadrii
B. Kadrii
3 goals

Nordsjælland missing players

OB missing players

Nordsjælland OB
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 2 4 10
5 3 0 Won W 1 2 2
4 2 1 Drew D 0 0 2
1 0 0 Lost L 1 2 6
21 12 0 Scored S 3 9 15
8 4 0 Conceded C 3 6 18
80% 80% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
80% 80% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
60% 80% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 90%
50% 60% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 20%
20% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 10%
50% 60% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 90%
40% 40% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
30% 20% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 10%
 
6.8 5.8 8 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 3.2 4.2
3 2.6 2 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4 4.5
1.3 1 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 1.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.7 16.4 23 Shots (avg) S ( 9 9 10.7
4.9 4.8 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4.2 4.5
43% 50% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 53% 33%
 
9.6 8.4 8 Shots against (avg) S A 16.5 14.5 13.4
3.4 2.6 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 3.8 4.3
Key stats in Superliga this season:
  • All of OB's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Nordsjælland have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Nordsjælland have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Nordsjælland have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Nordsjælland have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the most points from losing position (8) in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the most scored goals (12) at home in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the most scored goals in the second half (15) in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the the best goal difference (+13) in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the the best goal difference (+8) at home in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • OB have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • OB have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • OB have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • OB have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Superliga
  • OB have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Superliga
  • OB have the most conceded goals in the second half (12) in Superliga
  • OB have the most matches over the total-line (9) in Superliga
  • OB have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • OB 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 København 10 7 1 2 21 13 5 3 0 2 9 6 5 4 1 0 12 7 8 22
2 Brøndby 10 7 0 3 20 10 4 2 0 2 9 6 6 5 0 1 11 4 10 21
3 Nordsjælland 10 5 4 1 21 8 5 3 2 0 12 4 5 2 2 1 9 4 13 19
4 Silkeborg 10 6 1 3 16 9 5 4 0 1 8 3 5 2 1 2 8 6 7 19
5 Midtjylland 10 5 2 3 13 13 5 3 1 1 6 3 5 2 1 2 7 10 0 17
6 Lyngby 10 4 3 3 13 12 5 2 2 1 8 5 5 2 1 2 5 7 1 15
7 AGF 10 3 4 3 11 13 5 2 1 2 5 8 5 1 3 1 6 5 -2 13
8 Viborg 10 3 3 4 11 16 5 2 3 0 8 6 5 1 0 4 3 10 -5 12
9 Randers 10 3 3 4 10 19 5 2 2 1 5 8 5 1 1 3 5 11 -9 12
10 OB 10 2 2 6 15 18 6 0 2 4 6 12 4 2 0 2 9 6 -3 8
11 Vejle 10 1 2 7 9 15 5 0 1 4 4 8 5 1 1 3 5 7 -6 5
12 Hvidovre 10 0 3 7 3 17 5 0 0 5 1 13 5 0 3 2 2 4 -14 3

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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.