Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Breidablik & Grótta face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Iceland Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Breidablik and Grótta.
Breidablik's stadium, Kópavogsvöllur, has a grass surface. Grótta have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Grótta when playing on grass; 13 wins, 8 draws and 14 losses from 35 matches. They have scored 47 goals in these games and conceded 56.
Breidablik form and stats
Breidablik participated in Iceland Cup the last season, where they reached the semi-finals.Overall Pepsideild stats at home this season for Breidablik are 3-1-1 (wins-draw-losses).
Breidablik's previous game was a Pepsideild match also played at home, ending 5-3 versus IA. The home side are looking to build on that result. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting HK (0-1).
A goal frenzy last time out for Breidablik, with a total of 8 goals in the match against IA. Fun stuff to watch!
Breidablik are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (15 goals in 5 games). With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Breidablik defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Grótta form and stats
Grótta was sent out of Iceland Cup in the 16th finals last season.The story so far for the visiting team on their Pepsideild travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 4 defeats. Grótta has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Grótta lost away at FH (1-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Víkingur Reykjavík in the Pepsideild.
The attacking power of Grótta when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. Grótta struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 8 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last two meetings: two - zero - zero (Breidablik wins - draws - Grótta wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less.Breidablik missing players
Grótta missing players
| Breidablik | Grótta | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 9 | Won | W | 5 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 10 | ||
| 68 | 44 | Scored | S | 20 | 41 | ||
| 43 | 28 | Conceded | C | 25 | 45 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 87% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 87% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 76% | ||
| 68% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 40% | ||
| 44% | 47% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 20% | ||
| 84% | 87% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 52% | ||
| 12% | 13% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 24% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 28% | ||
| 7 | 8.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.6 | 5.1 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.6 | 5.3 | ||
| 2 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.6 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 326 | 205 | Total Shots | T S | 107 | 174 | ||
| 132 | 82 | Shots on Target | S O | 46 | 81 | ||
| 43% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 46% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Valur | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 13 | 19 |
| 2 | KR | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | Fylkir | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 15 |
| 4 | Stjarnan | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 14 |
| 5 | Breidablik | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | FH | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | FH | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Víkingur Reykjavík | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| 8 | IA | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 10 |
| 9 | KA | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 8 |
| 10 | HK | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 13 | -7 | 8 |
| 11 | Grótta | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -11 | 5 |
| 12 | Fjölnir | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -14 | 3 |