The visiting Vålerenga side should be favourites in this visit to Stabæk, as the away team holds a 8 point advantage from their nine league games this season.
- All of Stabæk's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Vålerenga have scored more than double the goals of Stabæk.
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.
Stabæk's stadium, Nadderud Stadion, has a grass surface. Vålerenga 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 Vålerenga when playing on grass; 6 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses from 13 matches. They have scored 21 goals in these games and conceded 13.
Stabæk form and stats
Stabæk have collected 4 points from their Eliteserien home games so far after 1-1-1. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Stabæk to get some points in this home game.
Stabæk lost their last game at Molde (placed 2nd) after a 1-2 scoreline. Oliver Valaker Edvardsen (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.04/10. Edvardsen served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled passed the opponent 3 of 3 times.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Tromsø (0-3).There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Stabæk as they are travelling to their away game against Bodø / Glimt in the Eliteserien. That match is three days after this one.
Stabæk are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 3 games. Stabæk have conceded 5 from these games.
Vålerenga form and stats
Playing away, Vålerenga have won 2 games, drawn 1 and suffered 1 defeat in the Eliteserien this season.
Vålerenga delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Bodø / Glimt (placed 1st) in their previous match; a Eliteserien game. Midfielder Fredrik Jensen was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.05. Jensen hit three key passes and had 53 successful passes (of 59 total).
Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Odd.Vålerenga have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 8 goals from 4 away matches. Vålerenga struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 7 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Stabæk, six draws and two wins for Vålerenga. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games.Top Goalscorers
  A. Dønnum 4 goals |  J. Tollås Nation 3 goals |  S. Skytte 2 goals |
Stabæk missing players
Vålerenga missing players
| Stabæk | Vålerenga | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 8 | 15 |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 83% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 75% | 56% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 22% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 75% | 89% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 25% | 11% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.5 | 5.5 | 6.7 |
| 6.5 | 4.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 2.5 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.8 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.8 | 11.3 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14 | 10.2 | 12.4 |
| 3.5 | 3.7 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.8 | 4.3 |
| 33% | 36% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 42% | 38% |
- All of Stabæk's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Vålerenga's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Vålerenga have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Vålerenga have scored in all their matches so far.
- Vålerenga have scored more than double the goals of Stabæk.
- Vålerenga have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Vålerenga 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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