Football betting preview: Aalesund vs Haugesund

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Competition: Norway Eliteserien
Competition: Sat 22.August
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Color Line Stadion (10778 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Eliteserien, Aalesund holding 16th place and Haugesund lying 12th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

Aalesund's stadium, Color Line Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. Haugesund have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Haugesund when playing on artifical turf; 10 wins, 8 draws and 9 losses from 27 matches. They have scored 41 goals in these games and conceded 37.

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Aalesund form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Eliteserien this season. Aalesund, who have the most conceded goals (43) in Eliteserien, have only managed 1 win, 2 draws and 4 losses from their games here at Color Line Stadion.

Aalesund lost their last game at Rosenborg (placed 4th) after a 2-3 scoreline. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 2-2 versus Viking.

The Aalesund fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 11 goals in 7 league matches. This has been a stadium of sighs so far as Aalesund have let the opposition score 22 times, an average of more than three per game.

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Haugesund form and stats

There's been little loot from Haugesund's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 6 away games in the Eliteserien. Haugesund only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 2 draws.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Eliteserien home defeat versus Strømsgodset with 2-3 on the scoreboard. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Mjøndalen wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

Late heartbreak for Haugesund in the Strømsgodset match, as the deciding 2-3 goal came deep into overtime.

Haugesund are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 2 goals from 6 away games. 8 goals have been conceded by Haugesund in these games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Aalesund victories, one draw and four Haugesund wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AalesundH. Fridjonsson
H. Fridjonsson
10 goals
HaugesundN. Sandberg
N. Sandberg
4 goals
HaugesundK. Velde
K. Velde
4 goals

Aalesund missing players

Haugesund missing players

Aalesund Haugesund
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
14 7 3 Played P 2 6 14
1 1 1 Won W 1 1 4
4 2 1 Drew D 0 2 3
9 4 1 Lost L 1 3 7
20 11 6 Scored S 1 2 12
43 22 7 Conceded C 1 8 21
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 67% 86%
93% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 17% 50%
86% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 17% 43%
86% 100% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 29%
43% 43% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 14%
86% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 17% 36%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 50% 36%
14% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 67% 43%
 
4.4 5 6.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 4.3 5.8
5.1 3 1 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.2 5.4
2.6 2.3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0.8 1.3
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
152 89 49 Total Shots T S 24 52 141
50 27 13 Shots on Target S O 6 16 37
40% 41% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 12% 32%
Key stats in Eliteserien this season:
  • Aalesund has the fewest clean sheets (0)
  • Aalesund has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home
  • Aalesund has the fewest points (5) at home
  • Aalesund has the most conceded goals (22) at home
  • Aalesund has the most conceded goals (43)
  • Aalesund has the most conceded goals in the first half (21)
  • Aalesund has the most conceded goals in the second half (22)
  • Aalesund has the most matches over the total-line (12)
  • Aalesund has the the worst goal difference (-11) at home
  • Aalesund has the the worst goal difference (-23)
  • Aalesund have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Aalesund have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Aalesund have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Aalesund have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Haugesund have scored away.
  • Aalesund have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Aalesund haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Aalesund is in the worst form (1-1-4)
  • All of Aalesund's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
  • Haugesund has the fewest scored goals (2) away
  • Haugesund has the fewest scored goals in the first half (4)
  • Haugesund have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Haugesund have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bodø / Glimt 14 12 2 0 47 18 6 6 0 0 21 6 8 6 2 0 26 12 29 38
2 Molde 15 10 1 4 41 17 7 6 0 1 22 5 8 4 1 3 19 12 24 31
3 Odd 14 9 1 4 23 15 8 5 1 2 13 11 6 4 0 2 10 4 8 28
4 Rosenborg 14 7 3 4 25 13 8 5 2 1 19 8 6 2 1 3 6 5 12 24
5 Vålerenga 14 6 5 3 19 19 6 3 3 0 11 7 8 3 2 3 8 12 0 23
6 Kristiansund 14 5 6 3 27 20 6 3 2 1 16 9 8 2 4 2 11 11 7 21
7 Stabæk 14 4 6 4 19 21 7 2 3 2 7 7 7 2 3 2 12 14 -2 18
8 Brann 14 5 3 6 18 21 7 2 2 3 10 8 7 3 1 3 8 13 -3 18
9 Strømsgodset 14 5 3 6 22 29 7 3 2 2 12 13 7 2 1 4 10 16 -7 18
10 Sarpsborg 08 14 5 2 7 17 18 8 4 1 3 11 6 6 1 1 4 6 12 -1 17
11 Sandefjord 14 5 1 8 16 25 7 3 1 3 7 9 7 2 0 5 9 16 -9 16
12 Haugesund 14 4 3 7 12 21 8 3 1 4 10 13 6 1 2 3 2 8 -9 15
13 Mjøndalen 14 4 2 8 12 18 6 2 0 4 5 8 8 2 2 4 7 10 -6 14
14 Viking 14 3 4 7 19 28 7 2 2 3 13 12 7 1 2 4 6 16 -9 13
15 Start 15 2 6 7 17 28 8 2 4 2 10 12 7 0 2 5 7 16 -11 12
16 Aalesund 14 1 4 9 20 43 7 1 2 4 11 22 7 0 2 5 9 21 -23 7

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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”.