Rosenborg favourites for feisty fight facing Viking

Rosenborg's stadium, Lerkendal Stadion, has a grass surface. Viking have artifical turf 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 Viking when playing on grass; 7 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses from 17 matches. They have scored {25 goals} in these games and conceded 31.

Viking have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1000 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

Rosenborg form and stats

The season before, Rosenborg's league results were 16 wins, 8 draws and 6 losses, producing 3rd position in the Eliteserien. From these 30 matches they scored {69 goals} and conceded 44. Playing as the home team in the previous season Rosenborg generated 12-2-1 (win-draw-lost) with {38 goals} and 15 conceded.

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 Rosenborg have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 6 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 1 and lost 0.

Rosenborg have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and nine practice matches played. These training games have ended with 5 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Rosenborg scored {13 goals} and let in {7 goals} during these nine games.

Viking form and stats

Let's have a look at how Viking performed last season in the Eliteserien: They landed a 11th position in the league table after playing out 9 victories, 8 draws and 13 defeats. In total they scored 48 and conceded {54 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 3 and lost 8 with 27/35 goals scored/conceded.

Viking are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 6 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats. From a total of 11 matches.

Viking played nine friendlies in their break from official games, resulting in 2 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats. In these nine matches Viking scored 16 and conceded {17 goals}.

Head 2 Head

Rosenborg-Viking H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Rosenborg four wins, Viking four wins, two draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Rosenborg missing players

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