Haugesund supporters put their faith in manager J. Grindhaug to deliver victory against Start

It's no vacation for neither Haugesund nor Start as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

This pitch has grass, which is not Start's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Start have performed like this: Played 13 matches resulting in 3 wins, 3 draws and 7 defeats with the goal stats 15-21 (scored/conceded).

Haugesund form and stats

Haugesund are yet to win a home game, having collected 1 point from their first two Eliteserien games here at Haugesund Stadion.

Happy days for Haugesund in their previous game, a Eliteserien match away at Sandefjord (placed 11th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 2-2 versus Kristiansund.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Haugesund handle that role? We have found four games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are one win, two draws and one defeat.

The manager J. Grindhaug will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Odd in only four days.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Haugesund at home in the league. 3 on target and 4 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.

Start form and stats

One match played away so far in the Eliteserien for Start and it was a tie. Last season the statistics for their away games were 8 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses from 15 games.

The manager J. Hardarson was unhappy after their last game, a Eliteserien match played at their home ground Sparebanken Sør Arena. Start suffered a 0-5 loss to Odd (placed 7th). A loss against Molde was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Start lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-5 beating and focus on this one.

Start are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, zero draws and three defeats. From a total of three matches.

After this away game Start return home for a Eliteserien game against Viking. That game is only three sleeps after this.

It's early days yet, but Start has scored 2 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

N. Sandberg 3 goals

M. Bringaker 3 goals

K. Velde 1 goals

Haugesund missing players

Start missing players