Aalesund v Stabæk betting guide: Not much separates the two teams

Aalesund's stadium, Color Line Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. Stabæk 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 Stabæk when playing on artifical turf; 12 wins, 4 draws and 11 losses from 27 matches. They have scored {54 goals} in these games and conceded 48.

Both squads have had plenty of rest since their last effort on the pitch. Let's aim for an animated match!

Aalesund form and stats

Aalesund's struggle is real here at Color Line Stadion with only 11 points collected from 11 Eliteserien games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-2-6.

The fans are hoping that Aalesund will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-3 away loss in the game against Vålerenga (placed 12th). Attacking player Ramsland outshone all others in that match and managed a match rating of 7.25 out of 10. Ramsland scored one goal.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Aalesund have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 13 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 5 and lost 5.

Aalesund aren't scoring a lot here at Color Line Stadion in the league, with only {9 goals} from 11 games. Aalesund have conceded 17 from these games. Aalesund has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.

Stabæk form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Stabæk so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-8 (win-draw-lose). Stabæk are generally in trouble as the list of consecutive losses is growing into an ugly monster. Regardless of home/away, the visitors have now lost seven in a row. It's been 10 weeks since they last avoided defeat. (The Sandefjord game.)

Stabæk failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Brann (placed 5th) that ended with defeat 0-1. Stabæk goalkeeper Pettersson had a fine day at work vs Brann, but even with making six saves the beating could not be evaded.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Stabæk playing away and similar expectations, we found 5 relevant matches. Results were 1 Stabæk win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Stabæk as they have only managed to score 9 times from 10 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. For Stabæk, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Stabæk - Aalesund 1-0 was the result in these sides' latest h2h game, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

I. Atanga 5 goals

K. Høgh 5 goals

M. Bakenga Joar Namugunga 4 goals

Aalesund missing players

Stabæk missing players