The FH & Valur managers L. Ólafsson and H. Gudjonsson are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Pepsideild league table.
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 FH and Valur.
FH's stadium, Kaplakrikavöllur, has a grass surface. Valur have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Valur when playing on grass; 10 wins, 6 draws and 10 losses from 26 matches. They have scored 46 goals in these games and conceded 41.
FH form and stats
FH, who have the most points (16) at home in Pepsideild, have performed here at Kaplakrikavöllur this season with 5 wins from 8 Pepsideild matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 1 game and lost 2. The happy trend is alive also outside their own arena as FH has won their last four matches. It’s been three wins in a row for FH here at Kaplakrikavöllur, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
It's back home for FH, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Fylkir away with the result 4-1. B. Sverrisson (2) and Ó. Finsen found the net in that victory. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Víkingur Reykjavík.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Fjölnir are coming to town in three days.
A decent goal production from FH in their home games so far, with 14 goals from 8 league matches. FH have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Valur form and stats
The strength of Valur, who have the most scored goals (39) in Pepsideild, on their travels this season is incredible with 24 points collected from 8 Pepsideild away games. Valur has 8-0-0 on the road, with 31 goals scored and 10 conceded. Things are running smoothly for Valur who hasn't tasted defeat in their last eleven matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against ÍA.
Valur play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 5-1 victory visiting Stjarnan (placed 3rd). Ahead of that match was the victory versus ÍA at their stadium, the result 4-2.
As you can tell from the results above, Valur was very dominant against Stjarnan, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-1 (!) with P. Pedersen (2), A. Bjarnason (2) and B. Sævarsson providing the goals.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Breidablik in just three days.
Valur are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (31 goals from 8 away games). Valur have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): FH seven wins, two draws and Valur one victory. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Pedersen 9 goals |   S. Lennon 7 goals |  Ó. Finsen 5 goals |
FH missing players
Valur missing players
| FH | Valur | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | 12 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 30 | 14 | 1 | Scored | S | 10 | 31 | 39 |
| 18 | 7 | 2 | Conceded | C | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| 93% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 86% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 73% |
| 86% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 43% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 75% | 47% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 71% | 62% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 47% |
| 29% | 38% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 47% |
| 7% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 13% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2 | 2.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3.5 | 2.9 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 138 | 70 | 9 | Total Shots | T S | 21 | 102 | 191 |
| 62 | 31 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 15 | 51 | 83 |
| 48% | 45% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 61% | 47% |
- All of Valur's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- FH has the fewest points from losing position (1) in Pepsideild
- FH has the most points (16) at home in Pepsideild
- FH has the the best goal difference (+7) at home in Pepsideild
- Valur has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Pepsideild
- Valur has the most clean sheets (7) in Pepsideild
- Valur has the most points (24) away in Pepsideild
- Valur has the most scored goals (31) away in Pepsideild
- Valur has the most scored goals (39) in Pepsideild
- Valur has the most scored goals in the first half (24) in Pepsideild
- Valur has the the best goal difference (+21) away in Pepsideild
- Valur has the the best goal difference (+24) in Pepsideild
- Valur have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Valur have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Valur have scored at least twice as many goals away as FH have scored home.
- Valur have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Valur have won all their away games so far.
- Valur haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Valur is in the best form (6-0-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Valur | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 10 | 24 | 37 |
| 2 | FH | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 29 |
| 3 | Stjarnan | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 21 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 24 |
| 4 | KR | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 23 |
| 5 | Breidablik | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 23 |
| 6 | Fylkir | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 22 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -2 | 22 |
| 7 | FH | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | HK | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 25 | 31 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 19 | -6 | 18 |
| 8 | ÍA | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 34 | 36 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 23 | -2 | 17 |
| 9 | Víkingur Reykjavík | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 15 |
| 10 | KA | 14 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -3 | 15 |
| 11 | Grótta | 15 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | -20 | 7 |
| 12 | Fjölnir | 15 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 14 | -21 | 6 |