National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Víkingur Reykjavík or Fylkir that keep their silverware dream alive.
This pitch has the surface grass, unlike Fylkir's home arena. The previous 23 games by the visitors on grass have generated 6 wins, 3 draws and 14 losses.
This is a local derby, usually meaning increased stress and significance.
Víkingur Reykjavík form and stats
Reykjavík participated in Reykjavik Cup the last season, where they reached the group a.27 points is a decent return from 11 Pepsideild games here at Víkingsvöllur for Víkingur Reykjavík. The data says 8 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses.
A good away victory last time out for Víkingur Reykjavík, who won 3-0 against IA.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Vestri and winning 3-0.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Víkingur Reykjavík home games with this odds we find three games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in two wins, one draw and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, two matches were won by at least two goals.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Valur are coming to town in four days.
Goals decide football matches and Reykjavík are scoring many of them at home; 22 on target from 11 league matches. Reykjavík have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Fylkir form and stats
They also participated in Reykjavik Cup last season. This ended in the final.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Fylkir so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 0-4-7 (win-draw-lose).
Fylkir are looking to quickly end their 616 minutes long goal drought in the Pepsideild.
The manager Sigmundsson was unhappy after their last game, a Pepsideild match played at their home ground Würth völlurinn. Fylkir suffered a 0-6 loss to Valur. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Valur was particularly ugly (0-6). The humiliation is still top of mind.
It was a Pepsideild defeat before that one as the away game against IA wasn't a success with a 0-5 loss.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Fylkir played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, zero were draws and the home team won as expected three times.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Fjölnir in just four days.
The visitors have scored 6 goals from 11 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. The Fylkir manager Sigmundsson has some worries about the defense as 25 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Reykjavík-Fylkir H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Víkingur Reykjavík six wins, Fylkir two wins, two draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  N. Hansen 16 goals | H. Guðjónsson 5 goals | E. Agnarsson 4 goals |
Víkingur Reykjavík missing players
Fylkir missing players
| Víkingur Reykjavík | Fylkir | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 9 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 7 | 13 | ||
| 49 | 27 | Scored | S | 6 | 27 | ||
| 21 | 9 | Conceded | C | 25 | 53 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 88% | ||
| 68% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 20% | ||
| 48% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 44% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 64% | 52% | ||
| 6.9 | 6.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 5 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.9 | 6.2 | ||
| 2.2 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 11.4 | 12.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 9.5 | ||
| 4.7 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.1 | 3.4 | ||
| 42% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 31% | ||
| 6.6 | 5.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.7 | 10.2 | ||
| 2.7 | 2.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 5.1 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Víkingur Reykjavík | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 38 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 17 | 48 |
| 2 | Breidablik | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 55 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 18 | 34 | 47 |
| 3 | KR | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 35 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 16 | 41 |
| 4 | KA | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 36 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 16 | 40 |
| 5 | Valur | 22 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 37 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 39 |
| 6 | FH | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 39 | 26 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 13 | 33 |
| 7 | Stjarnan | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 24 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | -12 | 22 |
| 8 | Leiknir Reykjavik | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 32 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 23 | -14 | 22 |
| 9 | IA | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 29 | 44 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 28 | -15 | 21 |
| 10 | Keflavik | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 19 | -15 | 21 |
| 11 | HK | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 39 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 23 | -18 | 20 |
| 12 | Fylkir | 22 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 51 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 25 | -33 | 16 |
