Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Breidablik & Valur face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Iceland Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
This stadium uses the playing surface grass, unlike Valur's home stadium. The latest 20 games by the away team on grass have resulted in 11 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses.
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 Valur.
Breidablik form and stats
Breidablik was eliminated in the 16th finals last season in the Iceland Cup.When playing at home in the Pepsideild, Breidablik have managed 4 wins, 0 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games.
The Breidablik supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Fram and win 4-3. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Thorvaldsson when Sowe scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 75th minute.
Before that match, a Pepsideild win away at Víkingur Reykjavík.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Breidablik matches with similar probabilities have ended with 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats (from 6 games).
The manager Thorvaldsson will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Leiknir Reykjavík in only three days.
With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Breidablik is on fire here. A stunning 14 from 4 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Breidablik defense is not exactly impregnable. 6 goals conceded from 4 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Valur form and stats
They also participated in Iceland Cup last season. This ended in the quarter-finals.Valur are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Pepsideild, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Home advantage was not enough for Valur in their previous game as they lost hosting Víkingur Reykjavík, 1-3.
A 0-1 defeat away at Stjarnan before that.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Pepsideild trip to Fram.
Valur have the goal stats of 3-3 (for/against) from 3 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Statistics for the prior ten meetings involving these two sides are: three wins for Breidablik, three draws and four wins for Valur. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: two games. One of the stars has been Pedersen with 7 goals scored against Breidablik in these 10 matches.Top Goalscorers
  A. Smárason 3 goals |  G. Tryggvason 2 goals | T. Haraldsson 2 goals |
Breidablik missing players
Valur missing players
| Breidablik | Valur | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 20 | 13 | Won | W | 3 | 13 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 72 | 44 | Scored | S | 14 | 57 | ||
| 30 | 16 | Conceded | C | 12 | 30 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 70% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 86% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 72% | ||
| 52% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 40% | ||
| 40% | 43% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 10% | 24% | ||
| 56% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 56% | ||
| 40% | 43% | Clean Sheets | C S | 30% | 32% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 30% | 12% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.6 | 7.9 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.2 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.3 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11 | 13.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.6 | 11.8 | ||
| 5.9 | 7.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 5.8 | ||
| 50% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 36% | ||
| 8.4 | 8.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.2 | 9.1 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.4 | ||
| 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 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 16 | 21 |
| 2 | KA | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 16 |
| 3 | Stjarnan | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 14 |
| 4 | Valur | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | Víkingur Reykjavík | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 |
| 6 | KR | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | FH | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -2 | 7 |
| 8 | Keflavik | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -5 | 7 |
| 9 | IA | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | -8 | 6 |
| 10 | Fram | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 14 | -8 | 5 |
| 11 | IBV | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -7 | 3 |
| 12 | Leiknir Reykjavík | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -8 | 3 |
