Brann will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Vålerenga.
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.
This stadium uses grass, unlike Vålerenga's home stadium. The visitors last 15 games on grass have ended in 5 wins, 6 draws and 4 losses.
Brann form and stats
Brann have played 5 Eliteserien games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-1 (wins-draws-losses). Two draws in a row at home now for Brann.
The fans are hoping that Brann will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-3 away loss in the Eliteserien game against Strømsgodset (placed 9th). Preceding that game was the home draw versus Kristiansund that ended 1-1.
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 Brann have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found three matches with the results: Won one, drawn zero and lost two.
A decent goal production from Brann in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 5 league matches. Brann have conceded 5 in these home matches.
Vålerenga form and stats
As the visiting team in Eliteserien matches, Vålerenga have produced an overall stat of 2-2-2 so far.
There might be some fixture complaints from Vålerenga as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Eliteserien match against Molde (1-4). Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Strømsgodset.
It's a bit worrying for Vålerenga that their goalkeeper Kristoffer Klaesson made seven saves in the Molde game last time out, but still couldn''t prevent the loss.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Vålerenga playing away and similar expectations, we found eight relevant matches. Results were three Vålerenga wins, two draws and three defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Vålerenga as they have only managed to score 5 times from 6 away games in the league. Vålerenga have conceded 9 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - four - five (Brann wins - draws - Vålerenga wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Koomson 8 goals |   M. Vilhjálmsson 4 goals |  D. Bamba 3 goals |
Brann missing players
Vålerenga missing players
| Brann | Vålerenga | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 15 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 14 |
| 17 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 9 | 14 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 83% | 91% |
| 82% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 64% |
| 64% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 45% |
| 36% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 36% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 18% |
| 64% | 80% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 55% |
| 18% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 50% | 45% |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 17% | 9% |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 5.2 | 4.5 |
| 5.2 | 4.8 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.5 | 5.3 | 5.5 |
| 2.1 | 2.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 134 | 71 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 19 | 46 | 98 |
| 46 | 32 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 15 | 42 |
| 33% | 28% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 33% | 33% |
- All of Brann's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Brann have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Brann 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 | Bodø / Glimt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 27 | 30 |
| 2 | Molde | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 22 | 28 |
| 3 | Odd | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
| 4 | Vålerenga | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 19 |
| 5 | Stabæk | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 16 |
| 6 | Kristiansund | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 15 |
| 7 | Rosenborg | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 8 | Brann | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -2 | 15 |
| 9 | Strømsgodset | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 15 |
| 10 | Haugesund | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -9 | 12 |
| 11 | Sarpsborg 08 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 11 |
| 12 | Viking | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -5 | 11 |
| 13 | Sandefjord | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -10 | 10 |
| 14 | Mjøndalen | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 15 | Start | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -9 | 6 |
| 16 | Aalesund | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 34 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | -18 | 6 |
- Brann
- Bergens Tidende - (local newspaper)
- Bergensavisen - (local newspaper)
- Bataljonen - (supporter site)
- Vålerenga
- Vålerenga På Nett - (supporter-driven news site)
- Klanen - (supporter site)
- Eliteserien official site
- VG - (newspaper)
- Aftenposten - (newspaper)
- Dagbladet - (newspaper)