ÍA vs HK: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Iceland Pepsideild
Competition: Sun 08.August
Match begins: 19:15 (UTC)
Venue: Norðurálsvöllurinn (5550 seats)

Pepsideild: Important and interesting fight between ÍA and HK at Norðurálsvöllurinn. Both are in need of a good run!

Insights:
  • ÍA have the fewest scored goals (13) in Pepsideild
  • HK have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.

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 ÍA and HK.

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ÍA form and stats

ÍA's results here at Norðurálsvöllurinn in the Pepsideild have been very modest with 1 victory, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 205 minutes without scoring a league goal. J. Vall (own goal) was the last player to find the net.

ÍA lost their last game at Stjarnan (placed 8th) after a 0-4 scoreline. ÍA were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.

Preceding that match was a defeat to FH (0-3).

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for ÍA, as the Iceland Cup home game vs FH is only three days away.

The ÍA fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 7 in 7 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the ÍA defense is not exactly impregnable. 12 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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HK form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for HK so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-4 (win-draw-lose).

It's the second away game in a row for HK, but there's smiles all around after the 4-2 victory versus FH (placed 6th) in the Pepsideild last time out. A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for HK, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?

A loss against Valur was the result prior to that, in a home game.

After this away game HK return home for a Iceland Cup game against KFS. That game is only three sleeps after this.

HK are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 7 games (in the league). As for defending, HK rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 13 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: HK - ÍA 1-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): ÍA four wins, four draws and HK two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

HKB. Ingason
B. Ingason
6 goals
HKA. Atlason
A. Atlason
4 goals
HKS. Ljubicic
S. Ljubicic
4 goals

ÍA missing players

HK missing players

ÍA HK
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 1 Played P 2 7 15
2 1 0 Won W 1 2 3
3 3 1 Drew D 0 1 4
10 3 0 Lost L 1 4 8
13 7 2 Scored S 2 10 18
33 12 2 Conceded C 3 13 28
93% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 87%
87% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 87%
60% 57% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 57% 67%
47% 29% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 40%
13% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 29% 20%
53% 57% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 71% 67%
7% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 13%
47% 43% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 29% 33%
 
6.4 8.9 6 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.4 4.5
7.5 7.1 7 Corners against (avg) C A 8 8.6 6.1
2.8 2.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 2.5
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
5.9 5.3 7 Shots (avg) S ( 6 8.1 9.1
2.4 2.9 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.7 3.9
35% 35% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 38% 31%
Key stats in Pepsideild this season:
  • All of HK's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • HK have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • HK have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • HK have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • HK haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • ÍA have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • ÍA have the fewest scored goals (13) in Pepsideild
  • ÍA have the fewest scored goals (7) at home in Pepsideild
  • ÍA have the fewest scored goals in the first half (5) in Pepsideild
  • ÍA have the most conceded goals (33) in Pepsideild
  • ÍA have the most conceded goals in the second half (19) in Pepsideild
  • ÍA have the the worst goal difference (-20) in Pepsideild
  • ÍA have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • ÍA is in the worst form (1-1-4)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Valur 15 10 3 2 26 13 8 6 2 0 14 5 7 4 1 2 12 8 13 33
2 Vikingur Reykjavik 15 8 5 2 22 16 7 5 2 0 13 5 8 3 3 2 9 11 6 29
3 Breidablik 14 8 2 4 33 18 7 6 0 1 22 2 7 2 2 3 11 16 15 26
4 KA 14 8 2 4 21 10 6 3 0 3 8 5 8 5 2 1 13 5 11 26
5 KR 15 7 4 4 24 15 8 3 2 3 14 11 7 4 2 1 10 4 9 25
6 FH 14 5 3 6 20 21 7 2 3 2 11 10 7 3 0 4 9 11 -1 18
7 Leiknir Reykjavík 15 5 3 7 15 19 8 5 1 2 14 8 7 0 2 5 1 11 -4 18
8 Stjarnan 15 4 4 7 18 23 7 3 1 3 12 9 8 1 3 4 6 14 -5 16
9 Keflavik 14 5 1 8 18 24 7 4 0 3 10 8 7 1 1 5 8 16 -6 16
10 Fylkir 15 3 6 6 17 25 8 3 3 2 12 10 7 0 3 4 5 15 -8 15
11 HK 15 3 4 8 18 28 8 1 3 4 8 15 7 2 1 4 10 13 -10 13
12 ÍA 15 2 3 10 13 33 7 1 3 3 7 12 8 1 0 7 6 21 -20 9

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.