Eliteserien match preview: Mjøndalen versus Haugesund

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Competition: Norway Eliteserien
Competition: Sat 10.July
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Consto Arena (4350 seats)

Season ticket holders at Consto Arena haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Mjøndalen languishing in the 14th position so far. The guesting Haugesund will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • Mjøndalen have the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Eliteserien
  • Haugesund have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Eliteserien

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!

Mjøndalen's stadium, Consto Arena, has a artifical turf surface. Haugesund 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 Haugesund when playing on artifical turf; 11 wins, 8 draws and 11 losses from 30 matches. They have scored 44 goals in these games and conceded 44.

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Mjøndalen form and stats

0-3-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Eliteserien numbers at home for Mjøndalen so far this season.

No payout for Mjøndalen in their previous match, an away game at Lillestrøm that ended in defeat 1-2. Defender Sondre Solholm Johansen got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.31/10. Johansen hit one key pass and won 5 of 7 duels.

Ahead of that match, Mjøndalen lost 1-2 at home to Odd.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Mjøndalen here at Consto Arena in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (3 from 4 games). 4 goals have been conceded.

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Haugesund form and stats

The visitors, who have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Eliteserien, are W0-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Eliteserien.

The Haugesund goalkeeper Egil Selvik is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 407 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Haugesund go into this game after a win, the home game against Tromsø that ended 3-0. Midfielder Peter Therkildsen was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.7. Therkildsen scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 30 successful passes (of 37 total).

Before that, Haugesund travelled to Rosenborg and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Haugesund's away games in the league this season with only 1 goal from 4 matches. As opposed to that, Haugesund have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the last eight meetings): Mjøndalen won two games, four matches ended with a draw and Haugesund has two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / four

Top Goalscorers

HaugesundI. Wadji
I. Wadji
3 goals
MjøndalenM. Rønning Ovenstad
M. Rønning Ovenstad
2 goals
HaugesundK. Velde
K. Velde
2 goals

Mjøndalen missing players

Haugesund missing players

Mjøndalen Haugesund
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 4 1 Played P 1 4 9
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 4
4 3 0 Drew D 1 2 3
4 1 1 Lost L 0 2 2
9 3 1 Scored S 0 1 12
11 4 2 Conceded C 0 4 6
89% 75% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 50% 67%
89% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 56%
44% 25% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 44%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 11%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
67% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 22%
22% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 67%
22% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 75% 44%
 
3.2 4.2 4 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.5 5.2
4.6 4.5 3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 7.2 5.4
1.4 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.8 1.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
8.9 10.8 12 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8.8 12.8
3.4 3.8 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 2.5 4.4
29% 20% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 10% 30%
Key stats in Eliteserien this season:
  • Haugesund have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Haugesund have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Haugesund have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Eliteserien
  • Haugesund have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Eliteserien
  • Haugesund have the fewest scored goals (1) away in Eliteserien
  • Haugesund have the most clean sheets (6) in Eliteserien
  • Haugesund have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Haugesund have yet to win a game away.
  • Mjøndalen have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Haugesund have scored away.
  • Mjøndalen have the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Eliteserien
  • Mjøndalen have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Mjøndalen have yet to win a game at home.

  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 12 8 2 2 28 12 6 5 0 1 17 5 6 3 2 1 11 7 16 26
2 Bodø / Glimt 13 7 3 3 27 13 8 5 2 1 22 9 5 2 1 2 5 4 14 24
3 Vålerenga 12 5 5 2 22 15 6 2 3 1 11 7 6 3 2 1 11 8 7 20
4 Kristiansund 10 5 2 3 8 9 5 3 1 1 5 3 5 2 1 2 3 6 -1 17
5 Viking 11 5 2 4 21 23 5 3 1 1 12 7 6 2 1 3 9 16 -2 17
6 Rosenborg 12 4 4 4 22 18 6 3 1 2 14 8 6 1 3 2 8 10 4 16
7 Odd 10 4 4 2 15 11 4 2 2 0 7 3 6 2 2 2 8 8 4 16
8 Lillestrøm 9 5 1 3 12 11 5 4 0 1 8 5 4 1 1 2 4 6 1 16
9 Haugesund 9 4 3 2 12 6 5 4 1 0 11 2 4 0 2 2 1 4 6 15
10 Sandefjord 9 4 0 5 12 16 5 2 0 3 6 8 4 2 0 2 6 8 -4 12
11 Sarpsborg 08 10 3 3 4 8 12 5 1 2 2 2 3 5 2 1 2 6 9 -4 12
12 Strømsgodset 10 3 3 4 14 19 5 3 2 0 11 4 5 0 1 4 3 15 -5 12
13 Tromsø 11 2 3 6 10 20 5 0 2 3 5 10 6 2 1 3 5 10 -10 9
14 Mjøndalen 9 1 4 4 9 11 4 0 3 1 3 4 5 1 1 3 6 7 -2 7
15 Stabæk 10 1 3 6 11 22 5 1 1 3 4 9 5 0 2 3 7 13 -11 6
16 Brann 11 1 2 8 9 22 5 1 1 3 6 9 6 0 1 5 3 13 -13 5

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Eliteserien is at the top of the Norwegian football league system. Seasons run from March to November with the 16 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 240 fixtures. When all these are played, the top team in the league table is the the “League Winner” while the winner of the cup in Norway is the “Norwegian Champion”.