Things are looking good for Lillestrøm so far, with the 2nd place in the Eliteserien table and looking forward to facing Sarpsborg 08 (who are in 8th).
- All of Lillestrøm's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Sarpsborg 08 have not yet lost a game away.
This stadium has grass, which is not Sarpsborg 08's usual surface at their own football pitch. When appearing on grass Sarpsborg 08 have performed like this: Played 16 matches resulting in 5 wins, 3 draws and 8 defeats with the goal data 22-20 (scored/conceded).
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 Lillestrøm and Sarpsborg 08.
Lillestrøm form and stats
Lillestrøm must be fairly happy with 6 points from their first three Eliteserien games here at Åråsen Stadion.
Lillestrøm are returning here after visiting Odd and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Adams scored the goal(s). Some amazing scenes last match, when Adams scored the winning goal three minutes into stoppage time. Midfield player Ranger got a match rating of 7.85 in that game, the max score being 10. Ranger served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Before that game, the home loss against Bodø / Glimt with the scoreline 1-2.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Lillestrøm handle that role? We have found 9 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat.
The Lillestrøm manager Bakke has got the team scoring with 7 from 3 home games in the league.
Sarpsborg 08 form and stats
Sarpsborg 08 are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Eliteserien, having played 3 games and collected 5 points (1 win, 2 draws and 0 losses).
Sarpsborg won their last game, 2-1 versus Brann played at home. Those three points felt nice as this side had gone three league fixtures without victory. Goalkeeper Øy was absolutely vital in the Sarpsborg 08 victory against Brann, making six saves. Attacker Lundqvist got a player rating of 8.0 in the game. "Man of the match" Lundqvist hit the woodwork once, served one assist and hit two key passes.
Before that, Sarpsborg travelled to Stabæk and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.Sarpsborg 08 are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 5 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 13 matches.
Sarpsborg 08 are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only {1 goals} away.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Lillestrøm four wins, three draws and Sarpsborg 08 three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less. The games between these sides have sometimes been "violent", having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Adams 6 goals |  G. Åsen 2 goals |  T. Lehne Olsen 2 goals |
Lillestrøm missing players
Sarpsborg 08 missing players
| Lillestrøm | Sarpsborg 08 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 67% | 50% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 8.3 | 10 | 11 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5.7 | 5 |
| 5.8 | 8 | 9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 6.2 |
| 1.3 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14.7 | 15.7 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 17.7 | 14 |
| 4.7 | 5.3 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 7 | 5 |
| 43% | 44% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 14% | 17% |
| 13.8 | 14 | 15 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 10 | 13.2 |
| 3.8 | 4.3 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.7 | 4 |
- All of Lillestrøm's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Lillestrøm have scored more than double the goals of Sarpsborg 08.
- Lillestrøm haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sarpsborg 08 have not yet lost a 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 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 19 |
| 2 | Lillestrøm | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| 3 | Viking | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| 4 | Brann | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | Tromsø | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | Stabæk | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Molde | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 8 | Sarpsborg 08 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | Odd | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 10 | Vålerenga | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 11 | Sandefjord | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 12 | Rosenborg | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -4 | 6 |
| 13 | Haugesund | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -5 | 6 |
| 14 | HamKam | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 | -6 | 6 |
| 15 | Strømsgodset | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 4 |
| 16 | Aalesund | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 | -13 | 1 |
- Lillestrøm
- Romerikes Blad - (local newspaper)
- Kanari-Fansen forum - (supporter forum)
- Sarpsborg 08
- Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad - (local newspaper)
- Fossefallet - (supporter site)
- Eliteserien official site
- VG - (newspaper)
- Aftenposten - (newspaper)
- Dagbladet - (newspaper)
