Viking hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 11 points and a 12th position in the Eliteserien table. Visiting Kristiansund holds 7th place with 15 pts.
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.
Viking form and stats
Viking have played 5 Eliteserien games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).
Viking lost their last game at Rosenborg (placed 5th) after a 0-3 scoreline. Ahead of that match, Viking won a home game hosting Sarpsborg 08 (3-0).
This is expected to be a close game, with Viking perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Viking as a small favourite), we find three games. Viking has won two of these, drawn zero and lost one.
Viking have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at SR-Bank Arena with 9 goals in 5 league matches. On the other hand, Viking have conceded 7 goals.
Kristiansund form and stats
As the visiting team in Eliteserien matches, Kristiansund have produced an overall stat of 1-4-1 so far.
Kristiansund go into this game after a win, the home game against Sandefjord that ended 3-1. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Brann that ended 1-1.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Kristiansund in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Kristiansund, five draws and three defeats.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Kristiansund have scored 8 goals in 6 league games away. 8 goals have been conceded by Kristiansund in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last five meetings: three - one - one (Viking wins - draws - Kristiansund wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Pellegrino 9 goals |   A. Pereira 2 goals |  Z. Bytyqi 2 goals |
Viking missing players
Kristiansund missing players
| Viking | Kristiansund | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 21 |
| 21 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 8 | 15 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 82% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 82% |
| 64% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 73% |
| 18% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 45% |
| 18% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 45% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 83% | 82% |
| 27% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 18% |
| 27% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 18% |
| 6.5 | 5.2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.8 | 5.3 |
| 4.9 | 5.4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 5.3 | 5.4 |
| 1.3 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 0.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 129 | 65 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 12 | 75 | 159 |
| 42 | 24 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 29 | 51 |
| 31% | 38% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 28% | 41% |
- All of Viking's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Kristiansund have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Viking have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Viking have won significantly less 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 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 9 | 27 | 31 |
| 2 | Molde | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 22 | 28 |
| 3 | Odd | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
| 4 | Vålerenga | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 19 |
| 5 | Rosenborg | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 6 | Stabæk | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 17 |
| 7 | Kristiansund | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 15 |
| 8 | Brann | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -2 | 15 |
| 9 | Strømsgodset | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 15 |
| 10 | Haugesund | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -9 | 12 |
| 11 | Sarpsborg 08 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 11 |
| 12 | Viking | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 14 | -8 | 11 |
| 13 | Sandefjord | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -10 | 10 |
| 14 | Mjøndalen | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 15 | Start | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -9 | 6 |
| 16 | Aalesund | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 34 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | -18 | 6 |
- Viking
- Aftenbladet - (local newspaper)
- Vikinghordene - (supporter site)
- Kristiansund BK
- Tidens Krav - (local newspaper)
- Uglan supporterklubb - (supporter site)
- Eliteserien official site
- VG - (newspaper)
- Aftenposten - (newspaper)
- Dagbladet - (newspaper)