Get ready for the return leg of the Europa Conference League 2nd Qualifying Round between The New Saints and Víkingur Reykjavík. This should be an interesting match and this preview contains everything you need to know. Read on!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Víkingur Reykjavík have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 5-3-2 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches.
The New Saints and Víkingur Reykjavík should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
The New Saints form and stats
Saints was eliminated in the 3rd qualifying round last season in the Europa Conference League. Viktoria Plzen was too strong.The regulars are hoping that The New Saints will strike back in this game, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Europa Conference League fixture against Víkingur Reykjavík.
Víkingur Reykjavík form and stats
Víkingur Reykjavík have an excellent away record in the Pepsideild so far with 4-1-1 from 6 games.
The fans enjoyed Víkingur Reykjavík's previous game versus The New Saints, a Europa Conference League win (2-0) played at home.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus FH at their stadium, the result 3-0.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Víkingur Reykjavík manager Gunnlaugsson as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Stjarnan.
They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).
Head 2 Head
This isn't the first time these parties get together this season, as the statistics show this recent match: Víkingur Reykjavík - Saints 2-0. Ingason loves to face The New Saints and have scored 2 goals in these matches.Top Goalscorers
  E. Agnarsson 4 goals | K. Ingason 4 goals | N. Hansen 4 goals |
The New Saints missing players
Víkingur Reykjavík missing players
| The New Saints | Víkingur Reykjavík | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 11 | Won | W | 9 | 18 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 59 | 37 | Scored | S | 37 | 68 | ||
| 25 | 12 | Conceded | C | 9 | 28 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 83% | 80% | ||
| 40% | 54% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 36% | ||
| 56% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 58% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 12% | ||
| 6.2 | 7.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 5.7 | ||
| 4 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.1 | 4.2 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 15.8 | 17.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 10.1 | ||
| 6.8 | 7.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 5.2 | ||
| 33% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 56% | 52% | ||
| 7.8 | 6.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.8 | 7.4 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 2.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Breidablik | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 24 | 34 |
| 2 | Víkingur Reykjavík | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 13 | 28 |
| 3 | KA | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 27 |
| 4 | Stjarnan | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 24 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 23 |
| 5 | Valur | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 20 |
| 6 | Keflavik | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -1 | 17 |
| 7 | KR | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | -3 | 17 |
| 8 | Fram | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 20 | -8 | 14 |
| 9 | IBV | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 16 | -8 | 11 |
| 10 | FH | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -7 | 10 |
| 11 | Leiknir Reykjavik | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -14 | 10 |
| 12 | ÍA | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 14 | -15 | 8 |
