An important duel in the bottom section of the Eliteserien, with both Aalesund and Start experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home team placed 16th and the visitors in 15th place.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Start have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 800 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Aalesund form and stats
0 victories, 1 draw and 4 defeats. That’s what Aalesund, who have the most conceded goals (32) in Eliteserien, have to build on here at Color Line Stadion in the Eliteserien. All in all it has been a very rough period for Aalesund who hasn’t won a league-game in their last ten attempts. Their previous win was against Sandefjord, 263 days ago. Three consecutive losses here at Color Line Stadion is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.
In their previous game, the manager L. Bohinen led his Aalesund to a defeat in the Eliteserien match away at Odd. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Color Line Stadion. Preceding that match was a defeat to Stabæk (1-3).
Aalesund's goalkeeper Gudmund Kongshavn was extremely busy against Odd, saving the team from a uglier defeat with a stunning six saves.
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 two matches with the results: Won one, drawn zero and lost one.
Aalesund are traveling soon after this match as the Eliteserien match at Sarpsborg 08 awaits in four days.
Aalesund are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 5 games. Aalesund have allowed more than three conceded goals on average in their home matches so far.
Start form and stats
0 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Start playing as the away team in the Eliteserien this season. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Start, who have now gone ten games without a victory. The KFUM game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.
There were no winners in Start's previous match, a Eliteserien home game that ended 0-0 vs Stabæk (placed 5th). A 1-1 draw at Brann's stadium before that.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by Start in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Start, two draws and one defeat.
After this away game Start return home for a Eliteserien game against Mjøndalen. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Start as they have only managed to score 3 times from 4 away games in the league. Start have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: five wins for Aalesund, three draws and two wins for Start. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  H. Fridjonsson 5 goals | S. Nordli 3 goals |   M. Bringaker 3 goals |
Aalesund missing players
Start missing players
| Aalesund | Start | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 32 | 18 | 3 | Conceded | C | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 90% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 50% | 60% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 25% | 40% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 25% | 40% |
| 40% | 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 90% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 50% | 50% |
| 3.7 | 4.4 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.8 | 5.5 |
| 5.6 | 3.8 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 6.5 | 6.2 |
| 2.9 | 2.2 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 | 53 | 13 | Total Shots | T S | 36 | 44 | 129 |
| 33 | 17 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 8 | 30 |
| 39% | 35% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 38% | 27% |
- Aalesund has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Aalesund has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home
- Aalesund has the fewest points (1) at home
- Aalesund has the fewest scored goals in the second half (3)
- Aalesund has the most conceded goals (18) at home
- Aalesund has the most conceded goals (32)
- Aalesund has the most conceded goals in the first half (14)
- Aalesund has the most conceded goals in the second half (18)
- Aalesund has the the worst goal difference (-12) at home
- Aalesund has the the worst goal difference (-19)
- 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 in all their home matches so far.
- Aalesund have yet to win a game.
- Aalesund haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Aalesund is in the worst form (0-1-5)
- All of Aalesund's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- Start have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Start have yet to win a game.
- Start haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 27 | 30 |
| 2 | Molde | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 19 | 25 |
| 3 | Vålerenga | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 19 |
| 4 | Odd | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| 5 | Stabæk | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 16 |
| 6 | Rosenborg | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 7 | Brann | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 15 |
| 8 | Kristiansund | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| 9 | Strømsgodset | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -8 | 12 |
| 10 | Viking | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -5 | 11 |
| 11 | Haugesund | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -9 | 11 |
| 12 | Sarpsborg 08 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 10 |
| 13 | Sandefjord | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -8 | 10 |
| 14 | Mjøndalen | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -3 | 8 |
| 15 | Start | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -8 | 6 |
| 16 | Aalesund | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | -19 | 3 |
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