Eliteserien preview: Can Vålerenga edge out victory against Lillestrøm?

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Competition: Norway Eliteserien
Competition: Sun 04.September
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Intility Arena (1500 seats)

Get ready for a show! The main heroes are Vålerenga and Lillestrøm, victory is the objective and 90 minutes the length.

Insights:
  • Vålerenga have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Eliteserien
  • Lillestrøm have the fewest conceded goals (17) in Eliteserien

This field uses artifical turf, unlike Lillestrøm's home arena. The last 32 games by the away team on artifical turf have seen 16 wins, 7 draws and 9 losses.

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!

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Vålerenga form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Intility Arena as Vålerenga have scored 16 goals to get 19 points from 9 games. The overall stats in the Eliteserien are 6-1-2 (wins-draws-losses). Ever since the Kristiansund game Vålerenga has been unbeatable here at Intility Arena producing four straight wins.

A good away victory last time out for Vålerenga, who won 2-1 against Viking (placed 6th). Sahraoui, an attacker, was the top performer for the team in that match, receiving a rating of 8.12 (out of 10). Sahraoui scored two goals, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 25 successful passes (of 30 total).

Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Tromsø.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Vålerenga handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 8 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

A decent goal production from Vålerenga in their home games so far, with 16 goals from 9 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches.

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Lillestrøm form and stats

The visitors, who have the fewest conceded goals (17) in Eliteserien, are W5-D3-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Eliteserien.

Lillestrøm's last game was the home draw against Kristiansund (1-1). Attacker Ibrahimaj got a player rating of 7.8 in the game. "Man of the match" Ibrahimaj served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 21 successful passes (of 26 total).

Prior to that match, a home win 3-0 against Sandefjord.

Lillestrøm are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.

The travelling fans enjoy Lillestrøm's attacking play in away games, having scored 18 goals in 10 league matches away. 13 goals have been conceded by Lillestrøm in these games.

Head 2 Head

Lillestrøm have won at least one point in the last 5 fixtures (2-3-0) against Vålerenga.

The previous H2H encounter ended Lillestrøm - Vålerenga 2-0, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

LillestrømA. Adams
A. Adams
6 goals
LillestrømH. Fridjonsson
H. Fridjonsson
5 goals
VålerengaH. Bjørdal
H. Bjørdal
4 goals

Vålerenga missing players

Lillestrøm missing players

Vålerenga Lillestrøm
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 9 1 Played P 2 10 20
10 6 0 Won W 1 5 12
3 1 0 Drew D 1 3 5
7 2 1 Lost L 0 2 3
33 16 0 Scored S 3 18 36
28 9 4 Conceded C 2 13 17
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 90% 80%
55% 56% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 70% 50%
40% 33% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 30%
20% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 5%
50% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 70% 50%
25% 44% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 10% 35%
25% 22% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 15%
 
6.5 8.6 14 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 5.7 6.8
4.7 4 1 Corners against (avg) C A 12 5.2 5
1.2 1.1 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 1.9 1.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
15.6 20.4 22 Shots (avg) S ( 11 14 14.3
5.5 7.1 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 4.6 4.7
30% 25% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 39% 38%
 
12.8 10.6 10 Shots against (avg) S A 16 14.7 12.1
4.2 3.7 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 4.2 3
Key stats in Eliteserien this season:
  • Lillestrøm have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Lillestrøm have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Lillestrøm have the fewest conceded goals (17) in Eliteserien
  • Lillestrøm have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in Eliteserien
  • Lillestrøm haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Vålerenga have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Vålerenga have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Eliteserien
  • Vålerenga have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Vålerenga have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • 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 Molde 20 15 3 2 43 18 11 8 1 2 27 11 9 7 2 0 16 7 25 48
2 Bodø / Glimt 20 12 5 3 52 22 10 5 5 0 31 10 10 7 0 3 21 12 30 41
3 Lillestrøm 20 12 5 3 36 17 10 7 2 1 18 4 10 5 3 2 18 13 19 41
4 Rosenborg 20 10 7 3 41 27 9 7 2 0 20 8 11 3 5 3 21 19 14 37
5 Vålerenga 20 10 3 7 33 28 9 6 1 2 16 9 11 4 2 5 17 19 5 33
6 Viking 19 8 5 6 33 27 10 5 3 2 17 8 9 3 2 4 16 19 6 29
7 Strømsgodset 19 8 5 6 32 28 10 6 2 2 23 14 9 2 3 4 9 14 4 29
8 Tromsø 19 5 9 5 27 33 9 5 3 1 18 14 10 0 6 4 9 19 -6 24
9 Odd 20 7 3 10 21 34 10 4 0 6 14 18 10 3 3 4 7 16 -13 24
10 HamKam 20 4 11 5 24 24 11 3 5 3 12 11 9 1 6 2 12 13 0 23
11 Haugesund 20 6 4 10 29 32 10 4 2 4 17 16 10 2 2 6 12 16 -3 22
12 Aalesund 20 5 7 8 21 30 10 3 4 3 11 12 10 2 3 5 10 18 -9 22
13 Sandefjord 20 6 4 10 33 44 10 1 4 5 17 25 10 5 0 5 16 19 -11 22
14 Sarpsborg 08 20 6 1 13 33 40 10 3 1 6 14 17 10 3 0 7 19 23 -7 19
15 Jerv 20 4 2 14 14 46 11 4 1 6 9 18 9 0 1 8 5 28 -32 14
16 Kristiansund 19 1 4 14 16 38 8 0 3 5 10 19 11 1 1 9 6 19 -22 7

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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”.