Vestri fights Völsungur in 2. Deild battle

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Competition: Iceland 2. Deild
Date: Sat 20.July
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Olísvöllurinn (800 seats)

Vestri will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 1 point behind Völsungur.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Vestri form and stats

Vestri must be fairly happy with 6 points from their first three games here at venue. Vestri has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Olísvöllurinn. We remember; it was Thróttur Vogar.

The Vestri supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Völsungur in 2. Deild and win 1-0. A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Tindastóll.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Vestri matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats (from two games).

A decent goal production from Vestri in their home games so far, with 5 goals from 3 matches. Vestri have conceded 4 in these home matches.

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Völsungur form and stats

The visitors are W2-D0-L2 on the road this term. Völsungur seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

It might be tough going out on the road again for Völsungur, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Vestri. Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Thróttur Vogar's place.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Völsungur when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing 2 times, drawing 0 and winning 0 games.

Völsungur are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 4 games. For Völsungur, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Vestri - Völsungur 1-0. Head-2-head stats last eight meetings: 3 - 2 - 3 (Vestri wins - draws - Völsungur wins). As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 3 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Vestri missing players

Völsungur missing players

Vestri Völsungur
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
12 6 1 Played 3 7 12
7 5 1 Won 2 2 5
0 0 0 Drew 0 1 2
5 1 0 Lost 1 4 5
15 8 1 Scored 4 5 13
17 4 0 Conceded 4 12 16
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 100% 86% 92%
67% 50% 0% Over 1.5 67% 57% 67%
58% 33% 0% Over 2.5 33% 43% 42%
25% 17% 0% Over 3.5 33% 43% 33%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 33% 14% 8%
58% 33% 0% BTTS 33% 29% 42%
33% 50% 100% Clean Sheets 33% 29% 25%
8% 17% 0% Failed To Score 33% 57% 42%
 
4.5 0 0 Corners For (avg) 4 3.8 4.9
5.2 0 0 Corners Against (avg) 4.7 4 5
2.5 0 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 2.7 1.8 2
1 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Vestri have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Vestri haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Völsungur have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Völsungur have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Völsungur have won significantly less corners away then at home.

Vestri
All Fotbolti.Net Cup Cup B Iceland Cup 2. Deild
All Home Away
22-06-19 2.D Vestri 1 - 0 Dalvík / Reynir
29-06-19 2.D KFG 5 - 1 Vestri
06-07-19 2.D Vestri 1 - 0 Leiknir Fáskrúdsfj.
13-07-19 2.D Tindastóll 2 - 1 Vestri
20-07-19 2.D Vestri 1 - 0 Völsungur
27-07-19 2.D Vestri 14:00 Selfoss
31-07-19 2.D Kári 18:00 Vestri
10-08-19 2.D Thróttur Vogar 14:00 Vestri
17-08-19 2.D Vestri 14:00 Fjardabyggd
21-08-19 2.D ÍR 18:00 Vestri
Völsungur
All Iceland Cup 2. Deild
All Home Away
22-06-19 2.D Völsungur 0 - 1 Leiknir Fáskrúdsfj.
27-06-19 2.D Tindastóll 0 - 0 Völsungur
06-07-19 2.D Völsungur 2 - 1 Selfoss
13-07-19 2.D Thróttur Vogar 2 - 0 Völsungur
20-07-19 2.D Vestri 1 - 0 Völsungur
27-07-19 2.D Völsungur 14:00 Kári
31-07-19 2.D Völsungur 19:15 Fjardabyggd
10-08-19 2.D ÍR 14:00 Völsungur
17-08-19 2.D Völsungur 16:00 Vídir
21-08-19 2.D Dalvík / Reynir 18:00 Völsungur

  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 Leiknir Fáskrúdsfj. 7 4 3 0 14 7 4 3 1 0 9 3 3 1 2 0 5 4 7 15
2 Selfoss 7 4 1 2 15 6 4 3 0 1 11 3 3 1 1 1 4 3 9 13
3 Vídir 7 4 1 2 15 10 4 3 0 1 8 3 3 1 1 1 7 7 5 13
4 Völsungur 7 4 1 2 11 11 3 2 1 0 6 2 4 2 0 2 5 9 0 13
5 Vestri 7 4 0 3 10 10 3 2 0 1 5 4 4 2 0 2 5 6 0 12
6 Thróttur Vogar 7 2 3 2 9 10 3 1 2 0 5 4 4 1 1 2 4 6 -1 9
7 Fjardabyggd 7 3 0 4 10 10 3 2 0 1 5 2 4 1 0 3 5 8 0 9
8 KFG 7 3 0 4 11 13 4 3 0 1 10 5 3 0 0 3 1 8 -2 9
9 ÍR 7 2 2 3 8 9 4 1 2 1 5 5 3 1 0 2 3 4 -1 8
10 Dalvík / Reynir 6 1 4 1 7 7 2 0 2 0 2 2 4 1 2 1 5 5 0 7
11 Kári 6 1 2 3 8 13 3 1 0 2 5 8 3 0 2 1 3 5 -5 5
12 Tindastóll 7 0 1 6 6 18 4 0 1 3 4 8 3 0 0 3 2 10 -12 1

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