Valur welcomes KA as clear favourites: Big betting preview

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.

KA play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artificial turf. Recent stats for KA when playing on artificial turf are 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats from ten matches. They have scored 19 goals and conceded 17 times in these games.

Valur form and stats

The story so far for Valur at their home stadium (Vodafonevöllurinn) is 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats. Valur has recorded two wins in a row here at Vodafonevöllurinn, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

Valur are returning here after visiting HK in a Pepsideild game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Ahead of that match, Valur won a home game hosting Grindavík (1-0).

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Valur matches with similar probabilities have ended with 0 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats (from two games).

The Valur manager O. Jóhannesson has got the team scoring with 9 from 4 home games. Valur have conceded 7 from these games.

KA form and stats

The visitors are W1-D0-L3 on the road this term. KA seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Two away games in a row for KA, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 2-3 versus Fylkir in the Pepsideild. Preceding that, the 3-4 home loss versus Víkingur Reykjavík.

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 KA playing away, we found three games. Results were 1 away win, 0 draws and 2 home wins.

KA have scored 5 goals on their travels this season, 4 away games. In the opposite end, KA have conceded 7 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result KA - Valur 1-0 entered in the official records. As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's 3 Valur victories, 2 draws and 2 KA wins. 4 of these games ended with three goals or more, 3 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

O. Finsen 5 goals / 1 assists

Hallgrímur Steingrímsson 5 goals / 1 assists

E. Aðal­steins­son 5 goals

Valur missing players

KA missing players