The visiting Rosenborg side should be favourites in this visit to Aalesund, as the away team holds a 25 point advantage from their 18 league games this season.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Rosenborg have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 5-8-5 (win-draw-loss) from 18 matches.
Aalesund form and stats
Aalesund's results here at Color Line Stadion in the Eliteserien have been very modest with 1 victory, 2 draws and 6 defeats. It's trouble wherever Aalesund are playing these days as they have suffered five straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways. The Aalesund manager L. Nilsen might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
Aalesund lost their last game at Viking (placed 7th) after a 2-5 scoreline. Before that game, the home loss against Sarpsborg 08 with the scoreline 0-1.
A goal frenzy last time out for Aalesund, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Viking. Fun stuff to watch!
Aalesund are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 9 games. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Aalesund have allowed the opposition to score 26 goals here at Color Line Stadion.
Rosenborg form and stats
The visitors, who have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Eliteserien, are W3-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Eliteserien.
The supporters enjoyed Rosenborg's previous game versus Haugesund (placed 11th), a Eliteserien 2-1 win played at home. Before that one, a nice away victory 5-1 at Ventspils.
World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Å. Fridtjof Hareide when Vegar Eggen Hedenstad scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 46th minute.
Rosenborg find the net regularly in their away games. 11 goals from 8 away fixtures in the league. Rosenborg have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Rosenborg - Aalesund 3-2. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: one win for Aalesund, four draws and five wins for Rosenborg. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.Top Goalscorers
  H. Fridjonsson 11 goals |  K. Zachariassen 7 goals | D. Islamovic 6 goals |
Aalesund missing players
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| Aalesund | Rosenborg | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 8 | 18 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 23 | 12 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 11 | 34 |
| 53 | 26 | 10 | Conceded | C | 4 | 8 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 88% | 89% |
| 83% | 89% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 62% | 78% |
| 78% | 89% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 50% | 67% |
| 78% | 89% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 12% | 28% |
| 39% | 33% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 12% | 22% |
| 78% | 89% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 38% | 56% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 38% | 33% |
| 22% | 11% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 38% | 22% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3 | 1.9 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 205 | 120 | 18 | Total Shots | T S | 53 | 93 | 216 |
| 63 | 34 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 18 | 33 | 83 |
| 37% | 35% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 33% | 41% |
- Aalesund has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Eliteserien
- Aalesund has the fewest clean sheets (0) in Eliteserien
- Aalesund has the fewest points (5) at home in Eliteserien
- Aalesund has the most conceded goals (26) at home in Eliteserien
- Aalesund has the most conceded goals (53) in Eliteserien
- Aalesund has the most conceded goals in the first half (25) in Eliteserien
- Aalesund has the most conceded goals in the second half (28) in Eliteserien
- Aalesund has the the worst goal difference (-14) at home in Eliteserien
- Aalesund has the the worst goal difference (-30) in Eliteserien
- 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 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Aalesund is in the worst form (0-1-5)
- Rosenborg has the fewest conceded goals (19) in Eliteserien
- Rosenborg has the fewest conceded goals (8) away in Eliteserien
| 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 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 65 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 13 | 45 | 50 |
| 2 | Molde | 18 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 46 | 22 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 24 | 34 |
| 3 | Odd | 18 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 32 | 24 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 34 |
| 4 | Rosenborg | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 34 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 32 |
| 5 | Vålerenga | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 24 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 32 |
| 6 | Kristiansund | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 38 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 30 |
| 7 | Viking | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 35 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 19 | -1 | 25 |
| 8 | Sarpsborg 08 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 21 | 25 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -4 | 23 |
| 9 | Stabæk | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 23 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 18 | -5 | 22 |
| 10 | Brann | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 23 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 18 | -7 | 22 |
| 11 | Haugesund | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -8 | 21 |
| 12 | Strømsgodset | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 26 | 35 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 17 | -9 | 21 |
| 13 | Sandefjord | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 18 | -10 | 20 |
| 14 | Start | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 36 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 22 | -17 | 15 |
| 15 | Mjøndalen | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 18 | -17 | 14 |
| 16 | Aalesund | 18 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 53 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 26 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 27 | -30 | 7 |
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