Breidablik travel to Fylkir with space in suitcase for three points

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Competition: Iceland Pepsideild
Competition: Sun 29.August
Match begins: 19:15 (UTC)
Venue: Würth völlurinn (2872 seats)

Striving Fylkir will be hoping to pull off a surprise win when they welcome high-flying Breidablik in the upcoming league match. It’s 10th vs 1st and the home crowd will have so-so confidence.

Insights:
  • Fylkir is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Breidablik have the most scored goals (42) in Pepsideild

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Pepsideild. That game was also an away game, at KA. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

Fylkir's stadium, Würth völlurinn, has a artifical turf surface. Breidablik have grass 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 Breidablik when playing on artifical turf; 9 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses from 15 matches. They have scored 33 goals in these games and conceded 19.

Fylkir are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Breidablik are still fighting for the big positions at the top of the table.

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Fylkir form and stats

Fylkir have played 9 Pepsideild games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-3-3 (wins-draws-losses).

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 256 minutes without scoring a league goal. O. H. Kjartansson was the last player to find the net.

The fans are hoping that Fylkir will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Pepsideild game against Stjarnan (placed 8th).

Ahead of that match, Fylkir lost 0-3 at home to Víkingur Reykjavík.

Fylkir has scored 12 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Fylkir's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 13 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Breidablik form and stats

4-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Breidablik, who have the most scored goals (42) in Pepsideild, in their Pepsideild matches away. Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus Fylkir.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Breidablik goalkeeper Anton Ari Einarsson is eager to challenge this, with his 264 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

It's the second away game in a row for Breidablik, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus KA (placed 5th) in the Pepsideild last time out.

That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus KA.

The travelling fans enjoy Breidablik's attacking play in away games, having scored 16 goals in 9 league matches away. Breidablik struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 17 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Breidablik - Fylkir 2-0 was the scoreline in these participants' previous H2H fixture, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Fylkir victories, zero draws and eight Breidablik wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

BreidablikÁ. Vilhjálmsson
Á. Vilhjálmsson
7 goals
BreidablikK. Steindorsson
K. Steindorsson
6 goals
FylkirD. Parfitt-Williams
D. Parfitt-Williams
5 goals

Fylkir missing players

Breidablik missing players

Fylkir Breidablik
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 3 9 18
3 3 0 Won W 2 4 12
7 3 1 Drew D 0 2 2
8 3 1 Lost L 1 3 4
18 12 1 Scored S 6 16 42
31 13 4 Conceded C 6 17 20
94% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
89% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 56% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 67%
28% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 56% 56%
6% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 33% 17%
56% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 39%
6% 11% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 44%
44% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 22% 17%
 
4.8 5.3 3 Corners for (avg) C F 6.7 5.4 5.9
5.9 4.1 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 4.4 4.2
2.4 2.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.7 1.9
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.9 11.9 6.5 Shots (avg) S ( 16 12.2 10.8
3.4 4.6 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.3 4.4 4.5
29% 29% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 40% 52%
Key stats in Pepsideild this season:
  • All of Breidablik's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Breidablik have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Breidablik have scored more than double the goals of Fylkir.
  • Breidablik have the most clean sheets (8) in Pepsideild
  • Breidablik have the most matches over the total-line (10) in Pepsideild
  • Breidablik have the most scored goals (16) away in Pepsideild
  • Breidablik have the most scored goals (42) in Pepsideild
  • Breidablik have the most scored goals in the second half (26) in Pepsideild
  • Breidablik have the the best goal difference (+22) in Pepsideild
  • Breidablik haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Breidablik is in the best form (5-0-1)
  • Fylkir have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Fylkir have the most points from losing position (9) in Pepsideild
  • Fylkir is in the worst form (0-2-4)

  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 18 12 2 4 42 20 9 8 0 1 26 3 9 4 2 3 16 17 22 38
2 Valur 18 11 3 4 29 17 9 7 2 0 16 6 9 4 1 4 13 11 12 36
3 Víkingur Reykjavík 18 10 6 2 29 19 9 6 3 0 17 8 9 4 3 2 12 11 10 36
4 KR 18 9 5 4 28 16 9 3 3 3 15 12 9 6 2 1 13 4 12 32
5 KA 18 9 3 6 25 17 8 4 0 4 10 8 10 5 3 2 15 9 8 30
6 FH 18 7 5 6 31 22 9 3 4 2 16 10 9 4 1 4 15 12 9 26
7 Leiknir Reykjavík 18 6 4 8 16 24 10 6 2 2 15 8 8 0 2 6 1 16 -8 22
8 Stjarnan 18 5 4 9 22 28 9 4 1 4 15 12 9 1 3 5 7 16 -6 19
9 Keflavík 18 5 3 10 20 32 9 4 1 4 11 14 9 1 2 6 9 18 -12 18
10 Fylkir 18 3 7 8 18 31 9 3 3 3 12 13 9 0 4 5 6 18 -13 16
11 HK 18 3 5 10 19 33 9 1 3 5 8 16 9 2 2 5 11 17 -14 14
12 ÍA 18 3 3 12 18 38 9 2 3 4 11 15 9 1 0 8 7 23 -20 12

Read more about Pepsideild

The Úrvalsdeild karla (meaning Men’s Select division) is the highest level of football in Iceland. It has also been known by the sponsorship name Pepsideild. Twelve teams play a season from April to September, each playing 22 fixtures to decide the final league table and the Icelandic champion.