The Battle of Buskerud: Mjøndalen vs Strømsgodset

This Norwegian local derby has many names:"The Battle of Buskerud", because both cities Drammen (Stromsgodset) and Mjondalen are located in the county Buskerud. "Elv Classico", because Elv is Norwegian for river and both cities share a long river. "Elv Firm" for the same reason. Whatever you call it these teams have an intense, although friendly, rivalry.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Eliteserien. That game was also an away game, at Bodø / Glimt. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

Mjøndalen form and stats

Two Eliteserien home games so far for Mjøndalen, who are yet to win here at Consto Arena. Only 2 points so far. Mjøndalen have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 227 minutes without scoring a league goal. B. Stokke was the last player to find the net.

In their previous game, the manager V. Hansen led his Mjøndalen to a defeat in the Eliteserien match away at Bodø / Glimt. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Consto Arena. Defender Markus Nakkim got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.32/10. Nakkim won 6 of 8 duels.

Heartbreak before that as Mjøndalen lost 1-2 at Viking's place.

This is expected to be a close game, with Mjøndalen perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Mjøndalen as a small favourite), we find nine games. Mjøndalen has won one of these, drawn four and lost four.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Mjøndalen as they are travelling to their away game against Kristiansund in the Eliteserien. That match is four days after this one.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Mjøndalen at home in the league. 1 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.

Strømsgodset form and stats

It's not happening yet for Strømsgodset on their Eliteserien travels, with zero points from their first 3 away games. Maybe today will be different? Three consecutive losses in away matches means Strømsgodset are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.

Strømsgodset are travelling again after losing away to Bodø / Glimt in their previous match (2-7). Attacker Fred Friday got a player rating of 6.8 in the game. "Man of the match" Friday hit one key pass. Strømsgodset lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 2-7 beating and focus on this one.

That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Rosenborg.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by Strømsgodset in our archives, and the results are: one win for Strømsgodset, three draws and one defeat.

After this away game Strømsgodset return home for a Eliteserien game against Sandefjord. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The visitors have scored 2 goals from 3 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Strømsgodset can't defend away. 11 goals have been scored by the opposition in 3 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Mjøndalen three wins, two draws and Strømsgodset five victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

H. Stengel 2 goals

M. Nakkim 1 goals

L. Larsen 1 goals

Mjøndalen missing players

Strømsgodset missing players