The league table in Pepsideild tells a story about these teams so far, with Valur leading Grótta by 33 points. Match preview to follow:
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Valur are battling for top spots and have everything to play for. Grótta are fighting to avoid relegation and will work hard for points.
Valur form and stats
4 victories, 2 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Valur, who have the most scored goals (44) in Pepsideild, have to build on here at Origovöllurinn in the Pepsideild. Valur haven’t lost a league-game in 13 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus ÍA, 92 days ago.
Valur drew their last game, also a home match. Breidablik (placed 3rd) was the opponent, 1-1 the score. In the preceding match a 4-1 victory visiting FH.
Valur are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 8 games. From these home matches, Valur have conceded only 6 goals.
Grótta form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Grótta, who have the fewest scored goals (6) away in Pepsideild, so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-6 (win-draw-lose). The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Grótta, who have now gone twelve games without a victory. The Fjölnir game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.
The manager Á. Gylfason was unhappy after their last game, a Pepsideild match played at their home ground Vivaldivöllurinn. Grótta suffered a 2-4 loss to KA (placed 8th). Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to KR.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Grótta, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?
As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Grótta's match history for similar games we find six matches. The home team won five of these as expected, four of them by at least two goals. Grótta managed one draw and zero surprise wins.
The attacking power of Grótta when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 9 league matches away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Grótta have conceded 16 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Grótta - Valur 0-3 entered in the official records.Valur missing players
Grótta missing players
| Valur | Grótta | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 13 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 44 | 9 | 3 | Scored | S | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| 17 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 6 | 16 | 37 |
| 94% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 76% | 50% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 88% |
| 65% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 56% | 59% |
| 47% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 24% |
| 35% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 53% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 33% | 41% |
| 41% | 62% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 6% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 56% | 53% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.8 | 2.2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 1.7 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 212 | 97 | 19 | Total Shots | T S | 17 | 54 | 116 |
| 95 | 35 | 10 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 30 | 56 |
| 46% | 26% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 20% | 27% |
- Grótta has the fewest scored goals (6) away in Pepsideild
- Grótta has the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Pepsideild
- Grótta has the the worst goal difference (-10) away in Pepsideild
- Grótta have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Grótta haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Valur has the fewest conceded goals (17) in Pepsideild
- Valur has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Pepsideild
- Valur has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Pepsideild
- Valur has the most clean sheets (7) in Pepsideild
- Valur has the most scored goals (44) in Pepsideild
- Valur has the most scored goals in the first half (26) in Pepsideild
- Valur has the the best goal difference (+27) in Pepsideild
- Valur have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Valur have scored more than double the goals of Grótta.
- Valur is in the best form (5-1-0)
| 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 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 44 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 11 | 27 | 41 |
| 2 | FH | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 33 |
| 3 | Breidablik | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 33 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 28 |
| 4 | Stjarnan | 16 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 26 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 28 |
| 5 | Fylkir | 17 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 26 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 28 |
| 6 | KR | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 29 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 27 |
| 7 | ÍA | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 39 | 39 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 24 | 0 | 21 |
| 8 | KA | 17 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 18 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -1 | 20 |
| 9 | HK | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 35 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 20 | -7 | 19 |
| 10 | Víkingur Reykjavík | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -5 | 16 |
| 11 | Grótta | 17 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 37 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 16 | -22 | 8 |
| 12 | Fjölnir | 17 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 39 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 24 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15 | -24 | 6 |