National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's ÍR or Valur that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither ÍR nor Valur as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
This pitch has grass, which is not Valur's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Valur have performed like this: Played 28 matches resulting in 13 wins, 5 draws and 10 defeats with the goal stats 55-43 (scored/conceded).
These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.
ÍR form and stats
ÍR participated in Reykjavik Cup the last season, where they reached the group a.4-1-5 (win-draw-lost) are the 2. Deild numbers at home for ÍR so far this season. On the other hand, in the Reykjavik Cup, ÍR has performed like this (both home and away): 0 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses.
The ÍR crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Valur here at Hertz völlurinn in a Reykjavik Cup match. A Reykjavik Cup defeat was the result before that one, 2-6 away at Vikingur Reykjavik.
No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where ÍR had similar winning odds as today, and found four games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew zero and lost four. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that ÍR lost three similar games by at least two goals.
A decent goal production from ÍR in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 10 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the ÍR defense is not exactly impregnable. 16 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Valur form and stats
Valur's mission in Reykjavik Cup last season failed in the final.The strength of Valur on their travels this season is incredible with 27 points collected from 9 Pepsideild away games. Valur has 9-0-0 on the road, with 35 goals scored and 11 conceded. Total Reykjavik Cup statistics for Valur: 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. In general it has been a productive period now for Valur as they haven't lost any of their last 14 games. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the IBV game have they lost an away game, meaning Valur has taken points from ten away matches in a row.
Valur play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting ÍR. Before that, Valur secured a home win against Throttur Reykjavik with the score 5-0.
Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Valur given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed one match with one win as expected, zero draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won zero of these games by at least two goals.
The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Valur alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (35 from 9 played). 11 goals have been conceded by Valur in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): ÍR zero wins, zero draws and Valur two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Pedersen 9 goals |  Ó. Finsen 5 goals | A. Adolphsson 4 goals |
ÍR missing players
Valur missing players
| ÍR | Valur | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Won | W | 12 | 21 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | ||
| 17 | 7 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | ||
| 38 | 17 | Scored | S | 43 | 70 | ||
| 51 | 18 | Conceded | C | 12 | 21 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 80% | ||
| 72% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 92% | 72% | ||
| 52% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 36% | ||
| 72% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 52% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.6 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 7.4 | 7.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 12 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.7 | ||
| 46% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 61% | 50% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kordrengir | 20 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 45 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 6 | 32 | 46 |
| 2 | Selfoss | 20 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 36 | 25 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 43 |
| 3 | Throttur Vogar | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 39 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 11 | 20 | 41 |
| 4 | Njardvik | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 39 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 14 | 13 | 40 |
| 5 | Haukar | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 43 | 28 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 15 | 36 |
| 6 | KF | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 33 | 39 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 21 | -6 | 26 |
| 7 | Kari | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 33 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 2 | 25 |
| 8 | Fjardabyggd | 20 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 30 | 36 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 18 | -6 | 24 |
| 9 | ÍR | 20 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 31 | 39 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 14 | 23 | -8 | 19 |
| 10 | Völsungur | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 25 | 49 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 23 | -24 | 17 |
| 11 | Vidir | 20 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 24 | 52 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 31 | -28 | 16 |
| 12 | Dalvik / Reynir | 20 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 25 | 46 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 23 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 23 | -21 | 11 |
| 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 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 50 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 11 | 33 | 44 |
| 2 | FH | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 37 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 12 | 14 | 36 |
| 3 | Breidablik | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 31 |
| 4 | Stjarnan | 17 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 27 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 31 |
| 5 | KR | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 30 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 28 |
| 6 | Fylkir | 18 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 27 | 30 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 17 | -3 | 28 |
| 7 | KA | 18 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 20 | 21 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 15 | -1 | 21 |
| 8 | IA | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 39 | 43 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 24 | -4 | 21 |
| 9 | HK | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 29 | 36 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 20 | -7 | 20 |
| 10 | Vikingur Reykjavik | 18 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 25 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -5 | 17 |
| 11 | Grotta | 18 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 43 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 22 | -28 | 8 |
| 12 | Fjölnir | 18 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 40 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -25 | 6 |