Nordsjælland manager Thorup looking for three points in OB showdown

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Competition: Denmark Superliga
Competition: Fri 24.February
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Right to Dream Park (10100 seats)

Superliga: Nordsjælland welcome OB in what could be an exciting football game. Here's all the news, stats and facts!

Insights:
  • Nordsjælland have the fewest conceded goals (14) in Superliga
  • OB have the fewest scored goals in the second half (9) in Superliga

This football pitch has artifical turf, which is not OB's familiar surface at their own football pitch. When appearing on artifical turf OB have performed like this: Played five matches earning 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat with the goal production 9-7 (scored/conceded).

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Nordsjælland form and stats

Nordsjælland are steadily winning Superliga games and points here at Right to Dream Park. 6 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 9 games. Nordsjælland has recorded two wins in a row here at Right to Dream Park, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

Nordsjælland travelled for their previous game, a trip to Lyngby that ended 1-1. The gifted forward Marcondes bested all the other players in that fixture and got a match rating of 8.03 out of 10. Marcondes served one assist and hit four key passes.

Before that game, the 5-1 home victory against AaB.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Nordsjælland handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats.

Trouble hitting the net? Looking at this team's last 10 league games, 8 have produced zero, one or two goals.

Nordsjælland are traveling soon after this match as the Landspokal Cup match at Aarhus Fremad awaits in four days.

From these home matches, Nordsjælland have conceded only 8 goals.

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OB form and stats

3-4-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for OB in their Superliga matches away. In general it has been a productive period now for OB as they haven't lost any of their last ten games.

OB delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Randers (placed 6th) in their previous fixture. Tverskov got a match rating of 8.11 in that game, top player of the team. Tverskov hit the woodwork once and hit one key pass.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Horsens that ended 3-3.

We have checked recent matches where OB have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 11 games were 1 victory, 5 draws and 5 defeats.

Betting related statistic: Both teams have scored at least one goal in 9 of this club's last 12 league games.

OB has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 12 goals from 8 games. OB have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The previous head-to-head encounter ended OB - Nordsjælland 0-2, played this season. Numbers for the preceeding ten meetings featuring these two squads are: two wins for Nordsjælland, two draws and six wins for OB. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

NordsjællandE. Appiah Nuamah
E. Appiah Nuamah
5 goals
OBB. Kadrii
B. Kadrii
5 goals
NordsjællandM. Diomande
M. Diomande
3 goals

Nordsjælland missing players

OB missing players

Nordsjælland OB
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 1 8 18
10 6 1 Won W 0 3 6
6 2 0 Drew D 1 4 7
2 1 1 Lost L 0 1 5
30 18 3 Scored S 0 12 23
14 8 3 Conceded C 0 10 25
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 88% 89%
78% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 88% 83%
33% 44% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 50%
28% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 22%
11% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 11%
56% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 62% 67%
33% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 25% 22%
22% 11% 50% Failed to Score F T 100% 25% 22%
 
5.8 5 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.9 4.3
3.8 3.6 1.5 Corners against (avg) C A 7 6.9 5.9
2.1 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.6 1.8
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
12.7 12.6 13.5 Shots (avg) S ( 12 14 12.2
5.2 5.4 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.5 3.7
32% 37% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 43% 35%
 
10.6 9.4 8 Shots against (avg) S A 14 14.1 15.6
3.1 3.3 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4.8 4.9
Key stats in Superliga this season:
  • 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 (14) in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the most points (20) at home in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the most scored goals in the first half (15) in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the the best goal difference (+10) at home in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland have the the best goal difference (+16) in Superliga
  • Nordsjælland haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • OB have the fewest scored goals in the second half (9) 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 18 10 6 2 30 14 9 6 2 1 18 8 9 4 4 1 12 6 16 36
2 Viborg 17 9 5 3 25 16 8 5 3 0 13 6 9 4 2 3 12 10 9 32
3 København 18 9 3 6 31 20 8 4 2 2 12 7 10 5 1 4 19 13 11 30
4 AGF 18 7 4 7 20 18 8 3 2 3 11 10 10 4 2 4 9 8 2 25
5 OB 18 6 7 5 23 25 10 3 3 4 11 15 8 3 4 1 12 10 -2 25
6 Randers 18 6 7 5 23 26 9 4 2 3 10 11 9 2 5 2 13 15 -3 25
7 Silkeborg 18 7 3 8 27 28 9 4 1 4 13 14 9 3 2 4 14 14 -1 24
8 Brøndby 18 6 6 6 28 30 10 4 3 3 18 17 8 2 3 3 10 13 -2 24
9 Midtjylland 17 5 8 4 24 22 9 2 3 4 8 13 8 3 5 0 16 9 2 23
10 Horsens 18 6 4 8 24 27 9 5 3 1 18 12 9 1 1 7 6 15 -3 22
11 AaB 18 3 5 10 17 29 9 1 4 4 7 12 9 2 1 6 10 17 -12 14
12 Lyngby 18 1 6 11 16 33 9 0 4 5 7 17 9 1 2 6 9 16 -17 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.