National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's KA or Fylkir that keep their silverware dream alive.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Fylkir have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 10-6-11 (win-draw-loss) from 27 matches.
KA form and stats
Last season, KA's League Cup journey ended in the semi-finals.When playing at home in the Pepsideild, KA have managed 6 wins, 3 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 11 games.
KA's previous game was a Pepsideild match also played at home, ending 4-2 versus Fylkir. The home side are looking to build on that result. In the preceding match a 3-2 victory visiting Vikingur Reykjavik.
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? What a game it was for E. Aðalsteinsson when beating Fylkir, applying the finishing touch to three goals!
A decent goal production from KA in their home games so far, with 19 goals from 11 league matches. KA have conceded 12 in these home matches.
Fylkir form and stats
Fylkir's mission in League Cup last season failed in the group stage.There's been little loot from Fylkir's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 11 away games in the Pepsideild. Fylkir only have 2 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 2 draws. Bitter travels for Fylkir as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Vikingur Reykjavik match.
Fylkir play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-0 victory visiting Thróttur Reykjavík. Prior to that match, a home win 5-3 against Fjölnir in the Reykjavik Cup.
Fylkir delivered their win in the match against Thróttur Reykjavík already in the first half, and could slow the play down in the final 45 minutes to ensure the glorious victory. A solid performance!
Fylkir are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 14 away goals from 11 games (in the league). The Fylkir manager H. Sigurdsson has some worries about the defense as 22 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last seven meetings: four - zero - three (KA wins - draws - Fylkir wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. Aðalsteinsson 13 goals |  H. Steingrímsson 11 goals |
KA missing players
Fylkir missing players
| KA | Fylkir | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 10 | 2 | Lost | L | 9 | 13 | ||
| 40 | 19 | Scored | S | 19 | 47 | ||
| 39 | 12 | Conceded | C | 28 | 53 | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 88% | ||
| 52% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 80% | ||
| 44% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 40% | ||
| 56% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 76% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 8% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 16% | ||
| 4.9 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.6 | 5.1 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 6.3 | ||
| 2 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 266 | 126 | Total Shots | T S | 170 | 325 | ||
| 107 | 53 | Shots on Target | S O | 76 | 160 | ||
| 33% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 29% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | KR | 22 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 44 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 21 | 52 |
| 2 | Breidablik | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 45 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 14 | 38 |
| 3 | FH | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 40 | 36 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 4 | 37 |
| 4 | Stjarnan | 22 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 40 | 34 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 19 | 6 | 35 |
| 5 | KA | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 34 | 34 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 0 | 31 |
| 6 | Valur | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 38 | 34 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 4 | 29 |
| 7 | Vikingur Reykjavik | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 37 | 35 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 2 | 28 |
| 8 | Fylkir | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 38 | 44 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 22 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 22 | -6 | 28 |
| 9 | HK | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 29 | 29 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 0 | 27 |
| 10 | IA | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 27 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -5 | 27 |
| 11 | Grindavík | 22 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 17 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 17 | -11 | 20 |
| 12 | ÍBV | 22 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 23 | 52 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 34 | -29 | 10 |