Home advantage could prove decisive in HK - Keflavík battle

The visiting Keflavík played their last game only four days ago, a Pepsideild match. That game was also an away game, at FH. 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.

HK's stadium, Kórinn, has a artifical turf surface. Keflavík 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 Keflavík when playing on artifical turf; 2 wins, 2 draws and 8 losses from twelve matches. They have scored 19 goals in these games and conceded 30.

HK are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Keflavík are struggling to avoid relegation.

HK form and stats

HK's struggle is real here at Kórinn with only 6 points collected from 9 Pepsideild games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-3-5. HK are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Kórinn, having lost their two previous games here.

HK haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 203 minutes ago. S. Ljubicic scored that one.

HK shared the glory with Leiknir Reykjavík in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0.

Before that game, the home loss against KR with the scoreline 0-1.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from HK's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played two games, won one match, drawn zero and lost one.

HK aren't scoring a lot here at Kórinn in the league, with only 8 goals from 9 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the HK defense is not exactly impregnable. 16 goals conceded from 9 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Keflavík form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Keflavík so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-6 (win-draw-lose).

Keflavík have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 219 minutes ago. A. Thordarson was the goal scorer.

Keflavík are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at FH (placed 6th).

A 0-5 loss hosting FH before that.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Keflavík when being an outsider away as they are today, we find five matches with the visitors losing two times, drawing one and winning two games.

Keflavík have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 9 league away games 9 goals have been scored. For Keflavík, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two teams face each other this season, as the fixture list show this recent game: Keflavík - HK 2-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - one - six (HK wins - draws - Keflavík wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

J. Gibbs 9 goals

B. Ingason 6 goals

S. Ljubicic 5 goals

HK missing players

Keflavík missing players