Possible nail-biting contest in Stjarnan - FH game

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Competition: Iceland Pepsideild
Competition: Sun 12.September
Match begins: 19:15 (UTC)
Venue: Samsung völlurinn (1440 seats)

Sneaking up on the top teams is the task when these mid-table teams do battle. Both are aiming to better their league status, Stjarnan in 7th and FH in 6th place.

Insights:
  • Stjarnan have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • FH have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in Pepsideild

Both participants have had enough rest since their previous effort on the pitch. Let's trust this will be an energetic fixture!

Stjarnan's stadium, Samsung völlurinn, has a artifical turf surface. FH 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 FH when playing on artifical turf; 11 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses from 18 matches. They have scored 40 goals in these games and conceded 22.

Stjarnan are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. For FH most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

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Stjarnan form and stats

4-1-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Pepsideild numbers at home for Stjarnan so far this season.

It's back home for Stjarnan, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Valur away with the result 2-1. E. Ingvarsson and B. Bryde found the net in that victory.

Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Fylkir.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Stjarnan have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found nine matches with the results: Won one, drawn three and lost five.

The Stjarnan fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 15 goals in 9 league matches. 12 goals have been conceded.

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FH form and stats

4 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses. That’s the product of FH playing as the away team in the Pepsideild this season.

FH might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Vikingur Reykjavik proved too strong as FH slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Kaplakrikavöllur.

A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Keflavik.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by FH in our archives, and the results are: two wins for FH, two draws and five defeats.

FH are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 9 away games so far. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. FH have conceded 12 goals in these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

This happened when the squads played each other previously this campaign; FH - Stjarnan 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Stjarnan three wins, four draws and FH three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

FHS. Lennon
S. Lennon
9 goals
StjarnanH. Halldórsson
H. Halldórsson
6 goals
FHJ. Jónsson
J. Jónsson
5 goals

Stjarnan missing players

FH missing players

Stjarnan FH
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 2 Played P 1 9 19
6 4 0 Won W 0 4 7
4 1 1 Drew D 0 1 5
9 4 1 Lost L 1 4 7
24 15 0 Scored S 1 15 32
29 12 1 Conceded C 2 12 24
89% 89% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
84% 78% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 89%
58% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 56% 47%
32% 44% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 32%
16% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 21%
58% 56% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 33% 47%
21% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 32%
32% 22% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 26%
 
6.1 6.9 9.5 Corners for (avg) C F 9 5.6 5.9
5.8 4.4 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 1 5 4.9
2.1 1.9 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.3 1.9
3 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
8.2 9.7 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11 9.6 10.1
3.7 4.9 7.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.1 4.2
34% 34% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 41% 36%
Key stats in Pepsideild this season:
  • All of FH's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • FH have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • FH have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in Pepsideild
  • FH haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Stjarnan have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 19 13 2 4 49 20 9 8 0 1 26 3 10 5 2 3 23 17 29 41
2 Vikingur Reykjavik 19 11 6 2 31 20 9 6 3 0 17 8 10 5 3 2 14 12 11 39
3 Valur 19 11 3 5 30 19 10 7 2 1 17 8 9 4 1 4 13 11 11 36
4 KR 19 10 5 4 30 17 10 4 3 3 17 13 9 6 2 1 13 4 13 35
5 KA 19 10 3 6 28 17 9 5 0 4 13 8 10 5 3 2 15 9 11 33
6 FH 19 7 5 7 32 24 10 3 4 3 17 12 9 4 1 4 15 12 8 26
7 Stjarnan 19 6 4 9 24 29 9 4 1 4 15 12 10 2 3 5 9 17 -5 22
8 Leiknir Reykjavik 19 6 4 9 17 26 10 6 2 2 15 8 9 0 2 7 2 18 -9 22
9 Keflavik 19 5 3 11 20 33 9 4 1 4 11 14 10 1 2 7 9 19 -13 18
10 HK 19 4 5 10 20 33 10 2 3 5 9 16 9 2 2 5 11 17 -13 17
11 Fylkir 19 3 7 9 18 38 10 3 3 4 12 20 9 0 4 5 6 18 -20 16
12 IA 19 3 3 13 18 41 9 2 3 4 11 15 10 1 0 9 7 26 -23 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.