Home advantage could prove decisive in Odd - Tromsø battle

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Competition: Norway Eliteserien
Competition: Thu 24.June
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Skagerak Arena (13500 seats)

seven rounds of fixtures have been played and Odd are 1 points ahead of Tromsø. What happens today?

Insights:
  • Odd have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Tromsø have the most conceded goals in the first half (10) in Eliteserien

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

It's quite the trip for Tromsø when visiting Odd as the cities are 1800 kilometers apart.

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Odd form and stats

Only two Eliteserien home games for Odd so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.

A good away victory last time out for Odd, who won 3-1 against Brann (placed 16th). The attacker Mushaga Bakenga was "man of the match" for Odd with a rating of 9.12/10. Bakenga scored three goals, hit one key pass and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 2 times. What a game it was for Mushaga Bakenga when beating Brann, applying the finishing touch to three goals!

A 1-1 draw away before that, with Vålerenga the opponent.

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 Odd have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found five games) they have won three times, drawn one and lost one.

Odd has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Tromsø form and stats

2-1-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Tromsø in their Eliteserien matches away.

Tromsø failed to get anything from their last game, a Eliteserien home match vs Lillestrøm (placed 9th) that ended with defeat 1-2. Ruben Jenssen got a match rating of 8.02 in that game, top player of the team. Jenssen hit two key passes and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Prior to that result Tromsø won their away game at Stabæk. The scoreline was 3-0.

Tromsø are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, three draws and three defeats. From a total of seven matches.

Tromsø are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 4 games (in the league). Tromsø have conceded 4 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Odd victories, two draws and three Tromsø wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

OddM. Bakenga Joar Namugunga
M. Bakenga Joar Namugunga
6 goals
TromsøM. Ebiye
M. Ebiye
4 goals
TromsøE. Bugale Kitolano
E. Bugale Kitolano
2 goals

Odd missing players

Tromsø missing players

Odd Tromsø
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
7 2 0 Played P 1 4 8
2 1 0 Won W 1 2 2
3 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
2 0 0 Lost L 0 1 4
8 2 0 Scored S 1 5 10
8 1 0 Conceded C 0 4 14
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 88%
29% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 62%
29% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 12%
57% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 50%
14% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 25%
29% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 25%
 
2.9 2.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.2 4
6 5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5.5 5
1.3 0.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1 1.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.3 9 0 Shots (avg) S ( 13 11.5 11
3.4 4.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.8 2.9
33% 22% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 45% 43%
Key stats in Eliteserien this season:
  • Odd have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Odd have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Odd haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Tromsø have scored at least twice as many goals away as Odd have scored home.
  • Tromsø have the most conceded goals in the first half (10) in Eliteserien
  • Tromsø 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 Bodø / Glimt 9 6 2 1 21 7 5 4 1 0 16 4 4 2 1 1 5 3 14 20
2 Molde 9 6 2 1 23 11 5 4 0 1 14 5 4 2 2 0 9 6 12 20
3 Kristiansund 8 5 0 3 7 8 4 3 0 1 4 2 4 2 0 2 3 6 -1 15
4 Rosenborg 9 4 2 3 20 14 5 3 0 2 14 8 4 1 2 1 6 6 6 14
5 Vålerenga 9 3 4 2 15 13 5 1 3 1 7 6 4 2 1 1 8 7 2 13
6 Viking 8 4 0 4 14 17 4 3 0 1 9 4 4 1 0 3 5 13 -3 12
7 Odd 7 2 3 2 8 8 2 1 1 0 2 1 5 1 2 2 6 7 0 9
8 Sarpsborg 08 7 2 3 2 5 6 3 0 2 1 0 1 4 2 1 1 5 5 -1 9
9 Lillestrøm 6 3 0 3 7 9 3 2 0 1 4 4 3 1 0 2 3 5 -2 9
10 Haugesund 6 2 2 2 8 6 3 2 1 0 7 2 3 0 1 2 1 4 2 8
11 Tromsø 8 2 2 4 10 14 4 0 1 3 5 10 4 2 1 1 5 4 -4 8
12 Strømsgodset 7 2 2 3 9 15 3 2 1 0 6 3 4 0 1 3 3 12 -6 8
13 Mjøndalen 6 1 3 2 6 6 3 0 3 0 2 2 3 1 0 2 4 4 0 6
14 Sandefjord 6 2 0 4 9 12 4 1 0 3 5 8 2 1 0 1 4 4 -3 6
15 Stabæk 6 1 2 3 7 11 3 1 1 1 4 5 3 0 1 2 3 6 -4 5
16 Brann 9 1 1 7 8 20 4 1 0 3 5 8 5 0 1 4 3 12 -12 4

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Read more about Eliteserien

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”.