Season ticket holders at Akureyrarvöllur haven’t seen too many victories this season, with KA languishing in the 9th position so far. The guesting ÍA will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
KA form and stats
Overall Pepsideild stats at home this season for KA are 1-4-0 (wins-draw-losses).
S. Thorsteinsson was the last player to score a league goal for KA and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as KA haven't scored in 270 minutes.
KA are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Valur. Preceding that match was the home Iceland Cup game against ÍBV (after extra-time) that was lost 1-3.
There will be little rest for KA after this match as they are travelling to Stjarnan for a Pepsideild game in only three days.
KA aren't scoring a lot here at Akureyrarvöllur in the league, with only 4 goals from 5 games. From these home matches, KA have conceded only 3 goals.
ÍA form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (24) in Pepsideild, on their Pepsideild travels is 2 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. With two straight losses from their last two away games, ÍA are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.
ÍA had fun at their own home (Akureyrarvöllur) last time out, beating Fylkir 3-2. T. Haraldsson and Steinar Þorsteinsson scored. A 3-5 defeat away at Breidablik before that.
Late drama in the previous game, when T. Haraldsson scored the winning goal two minutes into stoppage time to defeat Fylkir.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Valur in just four days.
ÍA create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 14 goals in 5 travels. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that ÍA concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: ÍA - KA 3-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one KA victory, four draws and five ÍA wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. Aðalsteinsson 13 goals | H. Steingrímsson 11 goals |  T. Thórisson 2 goals |
KA missing players
ÍA missing players
| KA | ÍA | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 4 | 14 | 24 |
| 11 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 14 | 23 |
| 67% | 60% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 44% | 40% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 33% | 20% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 33% | 20% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 80% | 70% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 60% | 40% |
| 44% | 40% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 80% | 90% |
| 44% | 60% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 20% | 10% |
| 44% | 40% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6.3 | 6.6 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.4 | 5.7 |
| 4.8 | 4.4 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 5.4 | 5 |
| 1.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 | 44 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 12 | 50 | 111 |
| 30 | 16 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 7 | 24 | 43 |
| 20% | 25% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 57% | 58% | 56% |
- All of ÍA's matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- KA has the fewest scored goals (6)
- KA has the fewest scored goals in the first half (2)
- KA has the most dropped points from leading position (7)
- KA have not yet lost a game at home.
- ÍA has the fewest matches under the total-line (1)
- ÍA has the most conceded goals (14) away
- ÍA has the most conceded goals (23)
- ÍA has the most matches over the total-line (9)
- ÍA has the most points from losing position (6)
- ÍA has the most scored goals (24)
- ÍA has the most scored goals in the second half (13)
- ÍA have scored in all their matches so far.
- ÍA have scored more than double the goals of KA.
- ÍA haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 14 | 22 |
| 2 | KR | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17 |
| 3 | FH | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 17 |
| 4 | Stjarnan | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| 5 | Fylkir | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -1 | 15 |
| 6 | Breidablik | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 7 | FH | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Vikingur Reykjavik | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| 8 | ÍA | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 13 |
| 9 | KA | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -5 | 8 |
| 10 | HK | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 13 | -7 | 8 |
| 11 | Grotta | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -11 | 6 |
| 12 | Fjölnir | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -14 | 3 |