Home advantage could prove decisive in Valur - ÍBV battle

ÍBV play their home games on grass, while this match occurs on artifical turf. Recent results for ÍBV when featuring on artifical turf are 4 wins, 3 draws and 6 defeats from 13 matches. They have created {21 goals} and conceded 25 times in these fixtures.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

Valur form and stats

The season before, Valur's league stats were 9 wins, 5 draws and 8 losses, providing 4th spot in the Pepsideild. Over these 22 matches they scored {38 goals} and let in 32. Playing as the home team in the last season Valur delivered 7-1-3 (win-draw-lost) with {23 goals} and 14 conceded.

ÍBV form and stats

Let's have a look at how ÍBV performed last season in the Pepsideild: They landed a 9th position in the league table after playing out 4 victories, 8 draws and 10 defeats. In total they scored 33 and conceded {44 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 3 and lost 7 with 17/27 goals scored/conceded.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and ÍBV playing away, we found 5 games. Results were 1 away win, 1 draw and 3 home wins.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Valur seven wins, one draw and ÍBV two victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Valur missing players

ÍBV missing players