OB fights Nordsjælland in Superliga battle

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Competition: Denmark Superliga
Date: Fri 19.April
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)

It's advantage OB so far with their 3rd position in the Superliga table, welcoming Nordsjælland who are placed 6th.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

This stadium uses grass, unlike Nordsjælland's home stadium. The visitors last 35 games on grass have ended in 10 wins, 11 draws and 14 losses.

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OB form and stats

7-4-2 (win-draw-lost) are the numbers at home for OB, who have the fewest conceded goals (9) at home in Superliga, so far this season. OB has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager J. Michelsen and the players.

The fans are hoping that OB will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Superliga game against Midtjylland. Ahead of that match, OB lost 0-1 at home to København.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how OB have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won 3 times, drawn 2 and lost 3.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for OB as they are travelling to their away game against Esbjerg in the Superliga. That match is four days after this one.

OB has scored 19 goals at home this season, in 13 matches. OB are not conceding a lot of goals here, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 13 matches.

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Nordsjælland form and stats

Playing away, Nordsjælland have won 3 games, drawn 5 and suffered 5 defeats so far this season.

Nordsjælland failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Esbjerg that ended with defeat 1-2. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Brøndby.

We have checked recent matches where Nordsjælland have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 40 games were W14-D11-L15.

After this away game Nordsjælland return home for a Superliga game against København. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Nordsjælland are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 17 away goals from 13 games. In the opposite end, Nordsjælland have conceded 21 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

OB and Nordsjælland have met before this season: Nordsjælland - OB 1-3. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): OB won 7 games, 1 match ended with a draw and Nordsjælland has 2 wins.

Top Goalscorers

A. Olsen
20 goals / 2 assists
G. Donyoh
10 goals / 3 assists
B. Kadrii
8 goals / 2 assists

OB missing players

Nordsjælland missing players

OB Nordsjælland
Total Home Statistic Away Total
29 14 Played 14 29
37 19 Scored 17 44
36 10 Conceded 21 42
93% 93% Over 0.5 86% 93%
69% 57% Over 1.5 71% 79%
45% 36% Over 2.5 50% 55%
28% 21% Over 3.5 29% 34%
10% 0% Over 4.5 21% 24%
45% 36% Both teams to score 57% 66%
34% 50% Clean Sheet 21% 21%
28% 21% Failed To Score 36% 21%
 
0 0 Corners For (avg) 0 0
0 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 0
0 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 0
0 0 Red Cards (avg) 0 0

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 København 26 19 4 3 65 23 13 11 1 1 38 12 13 8 3 2 27 11 42 61
2 Midtjylland 26 18 6 2 62 26 13 11 2 0 38 11 13 7 4 2 24 15 36 60
3 OB 26 12 6 8 35 31 13 7 4 2 19 9 13 5 2 6 16 22 4 42
4 Brøndby 26 11 5 10 44 40 13 4 4 5 19 19 13 7 1 5 25 21 4 38
5 Esbjerg 26 11 5 10 32 35 13 7 3 3 21 16 13 4 2 7 11 19 -3 38
6 Nordsjælland 26 9 9 8 42 39 13 6 4 3 25 18 13 3 5 5 17 21 3 36
7 AaB 26 9 9 8 38 35 13 4 3 6 15 18 13 5 6 2 23 17 3 36
8 Randers 26 9 7 10 29 34 13 5 4 4 15 12 13 4 3 6 14 22 -5 34
9 AGF 26 7 10 9 31 34 13 5 4 4 17 16 13 2 6 5 14 18 -3 31
10 Horsens 26 8 7 11 31 45 13 2 6 5 18 25 13 6 1 6 13 20 -14 31
11 SønderjyskE 26 7 7 12 30 37 13 5 3 5 15 13 13 2 4 7 15 24 -7 28
12 Vendsyssel 26 5 7 14 24 41 13 2 4 7 13 18 13 3 3 7 11 23 -17 22
13 Hobro 26 5 6 15 22 45 13 5 2 6 12 19 13 0 4 9 10 26 -23 21
14 Vejle 26 4 8 14 22 42 13 4 4 5 17 19 13 0 4 9 5 23 -20 20