Eliteserien preview: Can Aalesund edge out victory against Haugesund?

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Competition: Norway Eliteserien
Competition: Sat 13.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Color Line Stadion (10778 seats)

Eliteserien: What this game might lack in glitz it should pay back in pace and attitude. Get set for Aalesund - Haugesund!

Insights:
  • Haugesund have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.

This field has the surface artifical turf, unlike Haugesund's home ground. The previous 26 games by the visitors on artifical turf have generated 7 wins, 6 draws and 13 losses.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Aalesund form and stats

When playing at home in the Eliteserien, Aalesund have managed 3 wins, 3 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 8 games.

In their previous game, the manager Nilsen led his Aalesund to a defeat away at Vålerenga. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Color Line Stadion. As you see from the result above, Aalesund suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.

Ahead of that match, Aalesund lost 1-2 at home to Bodø / Glimt.

Aalesund are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 8 games. Aalesund have conceded 9 in these home matches.

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Haugesund form and stats

Haugesund have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Eliteserien, after 1-2-5 (8 played). Haugesund seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Haugesund had fun at their own home (Color Line Stadion) last time out, beating Jerv 3-1. Samuelsen, Njie and Walstad scored. Midfield player Krygard was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.15/10. Krygard hit two key passes and had 38 successful passes (of 44 total).

A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Sarpsborg 08.

Haugesund are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 9 matches.

Betting related statistic: Both sides have scored in 8 of this club's latest 10 league games.

The visiting Haugesund have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 10 goals from 8 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Haugesund have conceded 14 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these sides get together this campaign, as the history books show this recent game: Haugesund - Aalesund 2-2. Aalesund-Haugesund H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Aalesund three wins, Haugesund five wins, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

HaugesundA. Ndour
A. Ndour
8 goals
HaugesundM. Sande
M. Sande
4 goals

Aalesund missing players

Haugesund missing players

Aalesund Haugesund
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 8 3 Played P 2 8 17
5 3 2 Won W 1 1 5
6 3 1 Drew D 0 2 4
6 2 0 Lost L 1 5 8
18 9 5 Scored S 5 10 27
25 9 3 Conceded C 2 14 29
88% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 62% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 76%
53% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 59%
35% 25% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 38% 53%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 24%
47% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 65%
24% 38% 33% Clean Sheets C S 50% 12% 12%
41% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 38% 24%
 
4.5 5 6.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3.9 5.3
5.5 3.8 3.7 Corners against (avg) C A 8 8.2 6.9
1.8 1.6 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.9 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12 14 18.7 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 9.2 12.9
3.5 3.6 5.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 1.6 2.6
31% 31% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 62% 77% 61%
 
14.2 13.6 14 Shots against (avg) S A 20.5 16.5 14.4
4.8 4.5 4.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7.5 6.6 5.3
Key stats in Eliteserien this season:
  • Haugesund have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Haugesund have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Haugesund haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Molde 18 13 3 2 38 17 10 7 1 2 23 10 8 6 2 0 15 7 21 42
2 Lillestrøm 17 11 4 2 32 15 8 6 1 1 14 3 9 5 3 1 18 12 17 37
3 Bodø / Glimt 17 10 4 3 44 19 9 5 4 0 29 8 8 5 0 3 15 11 25 34
4 Rosenborg 17 8 7 2 31 20 8 6 2 0 18 7 9 2 5 2 13 13 11 31
5 Viking 18 8 5 5 32 25 9 5 3 1 16 6 9 3 2 4 16 19 7 29
6 Vålerenga 17 8 2 7 29 26 8 5 1 2 15 9 9 3 1 5 14 17 3 26
7 Strømsgodset 17 7 4 6 24 26 9 5 2 2 17 14 8 2 2 4 7 12 -2 25
8 Sandefjord 17 6 3 8 29 34 8 1 3 4 13 18 9 5 0 4 16 16 -5 21
9 Aalesund 17 5 6 6 18 25 8 3 3 2 9 9 9 2 3 4 9 16 -7 21
10 Odd 18 6 2 10 19 33 9 3 0 6 13 18 9 3 2 4 6 15 -14 20
11 Sarpsborg 08 17 6 1 10 31 31 9 3 1 5 13 13 8 3 0 5 18 18 0 19
12 Haugesund 17 5 4 8 27 29 9 4 2 3 17 15 8 1 2 5 10 14 -2 19
13 HamKam 17 3 9 5 20 21 9 2 4 3 10 10 8 1 5 2 10 11 -1 18
14 Tromsø 16 3 9 4 21 28 7 3 3 1 12 10 9 0 6 3 9 18 -7 18
15 Jerv 17 3 2 12 13 38 9 3 1 5 8 16 8 0 1 7 5 22 -25 11
16 Kristiansund 17 1 3 13 14 35 8 0 3 5 10 19 9 1 0 8 4 16 -21 6

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Eliteserien is at the top of the Norwegian football league system. Seasons run from March to November with the 16 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 240 fixtures. When all these are played, the top team in the league table is the the “League Winner” while the winner of the cup in Norway is the “Norwegian Champion”.