Viking are located at 4th, while Haugesund are lagging 8 points behind in the league table. Will they reduce the gap?
- Viking have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Eliteserien
- Haugesund have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
It should be mentioned that Haugesund play their home matches on grass, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on artifical turf. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Haugesund on artifical turf are 9 victories, 6 draws and 13 defeats from 28 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 36-45. You can compare this with overall results below.
Viking and Haugesund should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Viking form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at SR-Bank Arena as Viking have scored 19 goals to get 13 points from 6 games. The overall stats in the Eliteserien are 4-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).
Viking are returning here after visiting Vålerenga and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Sandberg and Salvesen scored the goal(s). A late climax in the match against Vålerenga as the winning goal came seven minutes into overtime; scored by Sandberg. Defender Brekalo got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.44/10. Brekalo won 8 of 9 duels.
In the fixture before, 4-4 away to Raufoss (after extra-time, 4-1 on penalties) (NM Cup).
Lots of goals and action? Nobody knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 8 of the 10 most recent league games with this club has seen three or more goals.
It's goals goals goals for Viking who have scored 19 goals from 6 league home games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 11 goals have been conceded.
Haugesund form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Haugesund so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-4 (win-draw-lose).
Haugesund won their last game, 2-1 versus Odd played at home. Samuelsen came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Odd last time out, making the manager Grindhaug feel like a tactical genius. Midfielder Krygard was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.44. Krygard had 44 successful passes (of 50 total).
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Molde's place.Haugesund are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {2 goals} from 6 away games. Haugesund struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 9 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Previous ten meetings featuring these participants: Viking won three, Haugesund triumphed in four and we saw three draws. three games with more than 2,5 goals, seven matches with less than 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  Z. Tripić 6 goals |  S. Svendsen 4 goals |  L. Salvesen 4 goals |
Viking missing players
Haugesund missing players
| Viking | Haugesund | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 28 | 19 | 8 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| 21 | 11 | 6 | Conceded | C | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 83% |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 67% |
| 67% | 67% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 58% |
| 50% | 67% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 33% | 50% | 67% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 83% | 83% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 17% | 50% |
| 8% | 17% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 83% | 50% |
| 4.8 | 6 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 5 | 5.3 |
| 5.1 | 4.7 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 7 | 6.7 |
| 2.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 5 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 15 | 17.5 | 16.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 8.5 | 9.2 |
| 5.8 | 7.3 | 6.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 2 | 2.8 |
| 40% | 43% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 17% | 36% |
| 13.3 | 12.5 | 10.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 19 | 17.5 | 17.2 |
| 4.5 | 4 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 5.7 | 5.8 |
- All of Viking's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Haugesund have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Viking have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Viking have scored more than double the goals of Haugesund.
- Viking have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Eliteserien
- Viking have the most points from losing position (14) in Eliteserien
- Viking have the most scored goals in the second half (23) in Eliteserien
- Viking have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Viking 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 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 21 | 32 |
| 2 | Tromsø | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 26 |
| 3 | Brann | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 24 |
| 4 | Viking | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 28 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 23 |
| 5 | Sarpsborg 08 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 21 |
| 6 | Molde | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 20 |
| 7 | Lillestrøm | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 17 |
| 8 | Odd | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -3 | 16 |
| 9 | Stabæk | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -4 | 15 |
| 10 | Haugesund | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -5 | 15 |
| 11 | Strømsgodset | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -1 | 14 |
| 12 | Rosenborg | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -5 | 13 |
| 13 | Vålerenga | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -4 | 10 |
| 14 | Sandefjord | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 18 | -8 | 9 |
| 15 | Aalesund | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 12 | -15 | 7 |
| 16 | HamKam | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 22 | -18 | 7 |
- Viking
- Aftenbladet - (local newspaper)
- Vikinghordene - (supporter site)
- FK Haugesund
- Haugesunds Avis - (local newspaper)
- Maakeberget Supporterklubb - (supporters - Facebook)
- Eliteserien official site
- VG - (newspaper)
- Aftenposten - (newspaper)
- Dagbladet - (newspaper)
