Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Keflavík & ÍA face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Iceland Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
Keflavík form and stats
Last season their Iceland Cup adventure ended in the round of 32.Keflavík have played 1 Pepsideild games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-0-1 (wins-draws-losses).
Keflavík's previous fixture was a Iceland Cup game also played at their home, ending 1-0 against ÍA. The home team are looking to repeat that performance.
Ahead of that match, Keflavík lost 0-2 at home to KR.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Keflavík have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 6 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 1 and lost 1.
Keflavík has scored {0 goals} so far and conceded {2 goals} from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
ÍA form and stats
ÍA was sent out of Iceland Cup in the round of 16 last season.Two away games in a row for ÍA, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 against Keflavík in the Iceland Cup.
Before that one, the win at home hosting Vidir in the Iceland Cup (3-0). We have checked recent matches where ÍA have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 8 games were 0 victories, 3 draws and 5 defeats.
Head 2 Head
Here's the final score when the participants played each other earlier this season; Keflavík - ÍA 0-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Keflavík four wins, one draw and ÍA five victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Keflavík missing players
ÍA missing players
| Keflavík | ÍA | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Lost | L | 9 | 15 | ||
| 55 | 20 | Scored | S | 12 | 36 | ||
| 44 | 21 | Conceded | C | 27 | 52 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 88% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 84% | ||
| 80% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 54% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 28% | ||
| 64% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 16% | ||
| 20% | 31% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 28% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 4.8 | ||
| 6 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8.4 | 6.9 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 2.2 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 5 | ||
| 9.8 | 10.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.6 | 9.7 | ||
| 5 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.2 | ||
| 45% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 34% | ||
| 8.8 | 9.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.7 | 13.2 | ||
| 4.5 | 5.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.8 | 6.6 | ||
