National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Fylkir or ÍBV that keep their silverware dream alive.
This football stadium uses the playing surface artifical turf, unlike ÍBV's home stadium. The previous eleven games by the away team on artifical turf have seen 4 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses.
ÍBV could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Pepsideild game only four sleeps ago.
Fylkir form and stats
Last season their Iceland Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.As mentioned below, Fylkir are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 Inkasso-Deildin games.
A nice win for Fylkir last time playing, versus Fjölnir. That was also a home game and the match ended 5-2 with Gunnarsson, Stefánsson, Garðarsson and Eyþórsson scoring for the victors. A goal frenzy last time out for Fylkir, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Fjölnir. Fun stuff to watch!
1-1 away at Kórdrengir before that.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Fylkir as they are travelling to their away game against Grindavík in the Inkasso-Deildin. That match is three days after this one.
Early season league goal statistics from Fylkir's 2 home games: 8 goals, 3 conceded.
ÍBV form and stats
ÍBV was sent out of Iceland Cup in the 16th finals last season.Still no away game victory in the Pepsideild for ÍBV with 1 draw and 2 losses from their first 3 attempts.
Jonsson (own goal) was the last player to score for the away team. ÍBV haven't scored a league goal in the last 241 minutes.
ÍBV played 0-0 against ÍA in their previous match.
Prior to that match, the ÍBV manager Hreidarsson faced defeat when travelling to FH and losing 0-2.The schedule is very tough for ÍBV now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Pepsideild game at Stjarnan is waiting in only four days.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far ÍBV have scored 4 goals in 3 league games away. For ÍBV, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Fylkir eight wins, one draw and ÍBV one victory. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Fylkir missing players
ÍBV missing players
| Fylkir | ÍBV | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 16 | Played | P | 17 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 8 | Won | W | 9 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 38 | 33 | Scored | S | 36 | 48 | ||
| 50 | 28 | Conceded | C | 27 | 38 | ||
| 96% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 88% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 88% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 65% | 64% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 41% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 41% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 59% | 60% | ||
| 20% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 24% | 24% | ||
| 48% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 20% | ||
| 5 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.7 | 5.8 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5.5 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2.1 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 9.9 | 10.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 11.9 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.1 | 6 | ||
| 33% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 32% | ||
| 10.5 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.8 | 9 | ||
| 5.3 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Fylkir | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 2 | Selfoss | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Grótta | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 |
| 4 | Fjölnir | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | Grindavík | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Kórdrengir | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Thór | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 4 |
| 8 | Vestri | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 4 |
| 9 | HK | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| 10 | Afturelding | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 |
| 11 | Throttur Vogar | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -6 | 1 |
| 12 | KV | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 0 |
| 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 | Vikingur Reykjavik | 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 | Keflavík | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -5 | 7 |
| 9 | ÍA | 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 | ÍBV | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -7 | 3 |
| 12 | Leiknir Reykjavik | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -8 | 3 |
