Perhaps a welcome break from league football as KR & ÍA face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a League Cup game only four days ago.
KR form and stats
KR participated in League Cup the last season, where they reached the semi-finals.KR's previous match was a League Cup game also played at their own arena, finishing 4-2 versus Grindavík. The home side hope to to build on that result.
A win at home ahead of that match, as anticipated. The team were solid favourites against Vestri and won 6-1. The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for KR home games with this odds we find 10 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat. Looking at the victories, 3 matches were won by at least two goals.
ÍA form and stats
ÍA was sent out of League Cup in the group stage last season.The regulars enjoyed ÍA's previous fixture versus Grindavík, a League Cup win (2-0) played at home.
A defeat, in the League Cup away at HK, before that. We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where ÍA played away with similar odds. This revealed 10 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 1 time, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 8 times.
Head 2 Head
KR have avoided a loss in the last 13 games (10-3-0) against ÍA.KR missing players
ÍA missing players
| KR | ÍA | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 7 | Won | W | 2 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 7 | 14 | ||
| 50 | 31 | Scored | S | 14 | 36 | ||
| 39 | 13 | Conceded | C | 26 | 54 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 88% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 73% | 72% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 55% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 36% | 32% | ||
| 56% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 12% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 28% | ||
| 6.8 | 6.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 4.7 | ||
| 5.4 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8.2 | 7 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2.3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 10.2 | 9.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 10.4 | ||
| 5.1 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.4 | ||
| 40% | 52% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 32% | ||
| 8.6 | 6.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.3 | 13.3 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.1 | 6.2 | ||
| 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 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 12 |
| 2 | KR | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 |
| 3 | ÍA | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | HK | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -1 | 6 |
| 5 | Grindavík | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | -8 | 0 |
| 6 | Vestri | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | -11 | 0 |
