Haugesund have 25 and 20 so far in the Eliteserien. Are we looking at a home win?
- Haugesund have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Sarpsborg 08 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Haugesund's stadium, Haugesund Stadion, has a grass surface. Sarpsborg 08 have artifical turf 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 Sarpsborg 08 when playing on grass; 2 wins, 5 draws and 8 losses from 15 matches. They have scored 13 goals in these games and conceded 27.
Haugesund form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Haugesund Stadion as Haugesund have scored 16 goals to get 19 points from 8 games. The overall stats in the Eliteserien are 6-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).
Haugesund are returning here after visiting Brann in a Eliteserien game and winning with a 3-1 scoreline. Alioune Ndour, Kristoffer Velde and Sondre Liseth scored the goal(s). Defender Benjamin Hansen got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.83/10. Hansen won 6 of 8 duels.
Before that game, the home loss against Lillestrøm with the scoreline 0-3.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Haugesund matches with similar probabilities have ended with four wins, two draws and one defeat (from seven games).
The Haugesund manager J. Grindhaug has got the team scoring with 16 from 8 home games in the league. Haugesund are not conceding a lot of goals here at Haugesund Stadion in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 8 matches. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Sarpsborg 08 form and stats
There's been little loot from Sarpsborg 08's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 8 away games in the Eliteserien. Sarpsborg 08 only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 1 draw. It's all red in the travel logs of Sarpsborg, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.
Sarpsborg have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Anders Kristiansen. It's been 214 minutes since they last conceded in Eliteserien.
Impressive finishing from Ibrahima Kone (4) secured the home win 5-0 against Sandefjord in their previous game. The attacker Ibrahima Kone got a match rating of 9.93 in that game. Kone scored four goals, hit one key pass and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times. As mentioned above, Sarpsborg 08 was the only team on the pitch versus Sandefjord in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task. It's hard not to mention Ibrahima Kone's lethal finishing against Sandefjord. four goals were a big reason for the important victory.
Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Strømsgodset.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Sarpsborg when being an outsider away as they are today, we find one match with the visitors losing one time, drawing zero and winning zero games.
The attacking power of Sarpsborg when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 8 league matches away. The Sarpsborg manager L. Bohinen has some worries about the defense as 16 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Haugesund and Sarpsborg 08 have played each other earlier this season: Sarpsborg 08 - Haugesund 0-0. Haugesund-Sarpsborg 08 H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Haugesund one win, Sarpsborg 08 two wins, seven draws. two of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  I. Koné 8 goals |   K. Velde 5 goals | A. Ndour 4 goals |
Haugesund missing players
Sarpsborg 08 missing players
| Haugesund | Sarpsborg 08 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 17 |
| 7 | 6 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 27 | 16 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 18 |
| 25 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 5 | 16 | 22 |
| 82% | 88% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 76% | 75% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 65% |
| 65% | 75% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 38% | 35% |
| 29% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 38% | 29% |
| 18% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 25% | 18% |
| 47% | 38% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 41% |
| 35% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 41% |
| 35% | 25% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 4.6 | 5.4 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1.5 | 3.9 | 3.4 |
| 4.9 | 4.4 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.4 | 5.2 |
| 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 9.4 | 10.1 |
| 4.6 | 5.2 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| 35% | 38% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 33% | 43% |
- Haugesund have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Haugesund have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Haugesund have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sarpsborg 08 have scored away.
- Sarpsborg 08 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Sarpsborg 08 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sarpsborg 08 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 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 36 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 34 |
| 2 | Molde | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 41 | 22 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 19 | 33 |
| 3 | Lillestrøm | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 31 |
| 4 | Kristiansund | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 29 |
| 5 | Rosenborg | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 34 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 28 |
| 6 | Viking | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 33 | 33 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 20 | 0 | 28 |
| 7 | Vålerenga | 17 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 30 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 26 |
| 8 | Haugesund | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 2 | 25 |
| 9 | Strømsgodset | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 25 |
| 10 | Odd | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 32 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 21 | -8 | 22 |
| 11 | Sandefjord | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 31 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 20 | -9 | 21 |
| 12 | Sarpsborg 08 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | -4 | 20 |
| 13 | Tromsø | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 31 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 14 | -12 | 15 |
| 14 | Mjøndalen | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 10 | -3 | 13 |
| 15 | Stabæk | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 38 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 24 | -16 | 13 |
| 16 | Brann | 17 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 35 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 19 | -17 | 10 |
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