Haugesund vs Aalesund: Soccer match preview

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Competition: Norway Eliteserien
Competition: Sun 29.May
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Haugesund Stadion (8754 seats)

Struggling Haugesund are desperate to pull off an upset when they welcome top team Aalesund in the next league fixture. It’s 14th vs 5th and the home crowd will have so-so expectations.

Insights:
  • Haugesund have the most conceded goals (19) in Eliteserien

This field uses grass, unlike Aalesund's home arena. The previous eight games by the guests on grass have given 2 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses.

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.

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Haugesund form and stats

Haugesund have played 4 Eliteserien games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-0-3 (wins-draws-losses).

Haugesund travelled for their previous game, a trip to Rosenborg that ended 3-3. Opportunity lost for Haugesund in the Rosenborg match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. The striker Ndour outperformed all the other footballers in that fixture and got a match rating of 7.45 out of 10. Ndour scored one goal and hit two key passes.

Before that game, the home loss against Bodø / Glimt with the scoreline 1-4.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Haugesund have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 2 and lost 5.

Haugesund has scored 4 goals so far and conceded 8 goals from 4 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Aalesund form and stats

2-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Aalesund in their Eliteserien matches away.

Määttä and Nordli scored in Aalesund's previous match, the home game against Jerv that ended 2-1. Goalkeeper Grytebust was absolutely vital in the Aalesund victory against Jerv, making six saves. Attacker Nordli got a player rating of 9.03 in the game. "Man of the match" Nordli scored one goal, served one assist, hit four key passes and had 17 successful passes (of 21 total).

Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Sarpsborg 08.

We have checked recent matches where Aalesund have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 5 games were 2 victories, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

6 goals have been conceded by Aalesund in these games.

Head 2 Head

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

Top Goalscorers

AalesundS. Haugen
S. Haugen
5 goals
HaugesundA. Ndour
A. Ndour
4 goals
HaugesundM. Sande
M. Sande
3 goals

Haugesund missing players

Aalesund missing players

Haugesund Aalesund
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 4 1 Played P 2 5 9
2 1 0 Won W 1 2 4
1 0 0 Drew D 1 1 2
6 3 1 Lost L 0 2 3
13 4 0 Scored S 3 5 10
19 8 1 Conceded C 2 6 11
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 80% 89%
78% 75% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 60% 67%
67% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 44%
56% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 20% 22%
33% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 20% 11%
56% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 40% 44%
22% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 20% 22%
22% 25% 100% Failed to Score F T 50% 60% 44%
 
6 7.8 7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.6 5.2
7.6 7.2 5 Corners against (avg) C A 9 8.8 6.3
1.6 1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.7 15.2 8 Shots (avg) S ( 10 10.2 13.6
2.2 2 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.6 3.9
65% 50% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 28% 29%
 
15.6 13.8 11 Shots against (avg) S A 11 13.8 13.4
6.3 5.5 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 4.6 4.6
Key stats in Eliteserien this season:
  • Haugesund have the most conceded goals (19) in Eliteserien
  • Haugesund have the most conceded goals in the first half (11) in Eliteserien
  • Haugesund have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Haugesund 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 Lillestrøm 9 7 2 0 19 5 5 5 0 0 10 0 4 2 2 0 9 5 14 23
2 Viking 10 6 3 1 19 8 6 4 2 0 12 2 4 2 1 1 7 6 11 21
3 Molde 9 6 1 2 17 9 5 3 0 2 10 7 4 3 1 0 7 2 8 19
4 Strømsgodset 9 4 2 3 13 13 4 2 0 2 7 10 5 2 2 1 6 3 0 14
5 Aalesund 9 4 2 3 10 11 4 2 1 1 5 5 5 2 1 2 5 6 -1 14
6 Bodø / Glimt 8 3 4 1 17 11 5 1 4 0 11 7 3 2 0 1 6 4 6 13
7 Rosenborg 8 2 5 1 11 10 4 2 2 0 7 3 4 0 3 1 4 7 1 11
8 Sarpsborg 08 8 3 1 4 12 11 5 1 1 3 4 6 3 2 0 1 8 5 1 10
9 Tromsø 8 2 4 2 10 13 4 2 1 1 6 7 4 0 3 1 4 6 -3 10
10 Vålerenga 9 3 1 5 10 15 3 2 1 0 4 2 6 1 0 5 6 13 -5 10
11 HamKam 8 1 6 1 11 9 4 1 3 0 6 3 4 0 3 1 5 6 2 9
12 Sandefjord 8 3 0 5 12 16 3 0 0 3 3 9 5 3 0 2 9 7 -4 9
13 Odd 9 3 0 6 7 14 5 2 0 3 6 9 4 1 0 3 1 5 -7 9
14 Haugesund 9 2 1 6 13 19 4 1 0 3 4 8 5 1 1 3 9 11 -6 7
15 Jerv 8 2 1 5 4 12 4 2 1 1 3 2 4 0 0 4 1 10 -8 7
16 Kristiansund 7 0 1 6 5 14 3 0 1 2 4 8 4 0 0 4 1 6 -9 1

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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”.