This promises to be another interesting encounter at Kristiansund Stadion in the Eliteserien. Kristiansund is in 5th position and welcome Lillestrøm in 12th place. Read all about the match here!
- Kristiansund have the most matches under the total-line (4) in Eliteserien
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Kristiansund and Lillestrøm.
Kristiansund's stadium, Kristiansund Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. Lillestrøm have grass 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 Lillestrøm when playing on artifical turf; 8 wins, 6 draws and 16 losses from 30 matches. They have scored 39 goals in these games and conceded 52.
Kristiansund form and stats
OK but not perfect. That could be the conclusion for Kristiansund's two home games in the Eliteserien so far this season, having collected 3 points here at Kristiansund Stadion.
The Kristiansund goalkeeper Sean McDermott is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 180 minutes without conceding a goal in the Eliteserien.
It's back home for Kristiansund, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Sarpsborg 08 away with the result 1-0. Sander Erik Kartum found the net in that victory. Midfield player Olaus Jair Skarsem got a match rating of 7.4 in that game, the max score being 10. Skarsem hit one key pass and dribled passed the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Before that, Kristiansund had a home game versus Strømsgodset which ended with a victory 1-0.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 Kristiansund have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eleven games) they have won seven times, drawn three and lost one.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Kristiansund at home in the league. 1 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Lillestrøm form and stats
The visitors' first away game in the Eliteserien ended in defeat. Last season Lillestrøm had these away match statistics: Played 15; won 7, drew 5 and lost 3.
Lillestrøm are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Eliteserien against Odd (placed 13th). Midfielder Ifeanyi Mathew was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.73. Mathew dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A loss against Viking was the result prior to that, in a home game.Lillestrøm are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, two draws and two defeats. From a total of seven matches.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Lillestrøm has managed 1 goal and let in 3 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Last eight meetings between the teams: Kristiansund won three, Lillestrøm won one and four draws. three games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Nilsen 1 goals |  P. Ulvestad 1 goals | S. Kartum 1 goals |
Kristiansund missing players
Lillestrøm missing players
| Kristiansund | Lillestrøm | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 60% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6 | 8.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 12 | 6.7 |
| 8.6 | 9.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 4.3 |
| 2 | 1.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.8 | 9.5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 11 | 13 |
| 3.6 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 22% | 25% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 33% |
- Kristiansund have the most matches under the total-line (4) in Eliteserien
| Kristiansund | Last season | Lillestrøm | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 16 | ||
| 12 | 4 | Drew | D | 5 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | ||
| 57 | 34 | Scored | S | 22 | 49 | ||
| 45 | 26 | Conceded | C | 14 | 26 | ||
| 90% | 87% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 97% | ||
| 87% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 73% | ||
| 70% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 40% | 40% | ||
| 43% | 60% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 27% | ||
| 20% | 40% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 13% | 10% | ||
| 83% | 80% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 47% | ||
| 17% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 40% | ||
| 10% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 17% | ||
| 5.5 | 6.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 6.2 | ||
| 5.5 | 4.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3.5 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.4 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 13.6 | 15.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.7 | 12.5 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.1 | 5.2 | ||
| 40% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 31% | ||
| 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 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 13 |
| 2 | Rosenborg | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | Molde | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 10 |
| 4 | Viking | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -1 | 9 |
| 5 | Kristiansund | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 9 |
| 6 | Vålerenga | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 7 | Stabæk | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 8 | Tromsø | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -4 | 5 |
| 9 | Mjøndalen | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | Strømsgodset | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 11 | Sandefjord | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | -2 | 3 |
| 12 | Lillestrøm | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 3 |
| 13 | Odd | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 2 |
| 14 | Sarpsborg 08 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 |
| 15 | Haugesund | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 2 |
| 16 | Brann | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -13 | 0 |
- Kristiansund BK
- Tidens Krav - (local newspaper)
- Uglan supporterklubb - (supporter site)
- Lillestrøm
- Romerikes Blad - (local newspaper)
- Kanari-Fansen forum - (supporter forum)
- Eliteserien official site
- VG - (newspaper)
- Aftenposten - (newspaper)
- Dagbladet - (newspaper)