Nothing but a win will please the Lillestrøm followers in this Åråsen Stadion clash with Kristiansund, as they have a robust lead on the away team in the Eliteserien table.
- Lillestrøm have the fewest conceded goals (16) in Eliteserien
- Kristiansund have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Eliteserien
2 - 2 - 9 with 12-24. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Kristiansund when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Kristiansund play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.
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!
Lillestrøm form and stats
22 points is a decent return from 9 Eliteserien games here at Åråsen Stadion for Lillestrøm. The data says 7 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
Lillestrøm's last game was hosting Sandefjord (placed 12th) and winning 3-0. Midfielder Åsen was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.63 (out of ten) in that game. Åsen scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, served one assist and hit one key pass.
Heartbreak before that as Lillestrøm lost 0-1 at Jerv's place.Lillestrøm are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 7 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 5, drew 2 and lost 0.
The Lillestrøm fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 17 goals in 9 league matches. Lillestrøm have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Kristiansund form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Kristiansund so far with only 3 points returning home. The records show 1-0-9 (win-draw-lose).
Two away games in a row for Kristiansund, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Tromsø. Attacker Kartum got a player rating of 7.7 in the game. "Man of the match" Kartum scored one goal, hit three key passes and had 26 successful passes (of 32 total).
The game before that, was lost at home, a 2-3 defeat against Molde.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Kristiansund played away with similar odds. This revealed 5 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 5 times.
A new game in only three days for Kristiansund, the Eliteserien home match versus Viking. Busy days.
Goals are few and far between in Kristiansund's away league games. Only 5 goals from 10 travels. Kristiansund have conceded 18 goals in these games. Kristiansund has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!
Head 2 Head
The two sides faced each other before this season: Kristiansund - Lillestrøm 1-3. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Lillestrøm victories, four draws and four Kristiansund wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Adams 6 goals |   B. Bye 6 goals |  H. Fridjonsson 4 goals |
Lillestrøm missing players
Kristiansund missing players
| Lillestrøm | Kristiansund | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 18 |
| 12 | 7 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 9 | 14 |
| 35 | 17 | 10 | Scored | S | 2 | 5 | 15 |
| 16 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 8 | 18 | 37 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 79% | 67% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 70% | 83% |
| 53% | 33% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 61% |
| 32% | 22% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 10% | 33% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 47% | 22% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 40% | 56% |
| 37% | 67% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 10% | 6% |
| 16% | 11% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 50% | 39% |
| 6.6 | 7.7 | 8.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 5.3 | 6.1 |
| 4.9 | 4.7 | 6.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 5.7 | 5.1 |
| 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13.9 | 13.9 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.3 | 13 | 13.3 |
| 4.6 | 4.6 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 2.5 | 3.2 |
| 40% | 41% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 20% | 26% |
| 12.1 | 9.1 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 19 | 16.3 | 15.3 |
| 3.2 | 2 | 2.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
- Kristiansund have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Kristiansund have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Eliteserien
- Kristiansund have the fewest scored goals in the second half (7) in Eliteserien
- Kristiansund haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Lillestrøm have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Lillestrøm have scored more than double the goals of Kristiansund.
- Lillestrøm have the fewest conceded goals (16) in Eliteserien
- Lillestrøm have the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in Eliteserien
- Lillestrøm have the most clean sheets (6) at home in Eliteserien
- Lillestrøm 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 | Molde | 19 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 39 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 22 | 45 |
| 2 | Lillestrøm | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 19 | 40 |
| 3 | Bodø / Glimt | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 50 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 31 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 28 | 38 |
| 4 | Rosenborg | 19 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 38 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 15 | 37 |
| 5 | Vålerenga | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 31 | 27 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 4 | 30 |
| 6 | Viking | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 32 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 19 | 7 | 29 |
| 7 | Strømsgodset | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 28 |
| 8 | Odd | 19 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 20 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -13 | 23 |
| 9 | Haugesund | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 29 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 15 | -2 | 22 |
| 10 | Tromsø | 18 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 30 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 19 | -7 | 21 |
| 11 | Aalesund | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | -9 | 21 |
| 12 | Sandefjord | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 31 | 42 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 19 | -11 | 21 |
| 13 | HamKam | 19 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 23 | 24 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 13 | -1 | 20 |
| 14 | Sarpsborg 08 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 32 | 36 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 19 | -4 | 19 |
| 15 | Jerv | 19 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 44 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 28 | -30 | 14 |
| 16 | Kristiansund | 18 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 37 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 18 | -22 | 6 |
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