Victory to the hosting team is anticipated from this match if the league table is to be trusted. The Viking followers are confident that the gap between 3rd and Sandefjord's 13th place in the table will be revealed on the pitch.
- Viking have the most scored goals in the second half (15) in Eliteserien
- Sandefjord have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Sandefjord have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 12-2-13 (win-draw-loss) from 27 matches.
Viking form and stats
14 points is a decent return from 6 Eliteserien games here at SR-Bank Arena for Viking. The data says 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses.
Viking faced defeat in their previous match, away at Strømsgodset (2-3). Berisha, a striker, was the declared top player for the side in that match, collecting a rating of 9.04 (out of 10). Berisha scored two goals, hit the woodwork once, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that game was the home draw versus HamKam that ended 1-1.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Viking home games with this odds we find 5 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 2 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 1 match were won by at least two goals.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Viking as they are travelling to their away game against Vard in the NM Cup. That match is three days after this one.
Viking have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Sandefjord form and stats
The visitors are W3-D0-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Eliteserien.
Sandefjord play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Odd (placed 9th). Defender Taaje was the best team player with a rating of 7.9. Taaje won 5 of 10 duels.
A 1-4 loss hosting Lillestrøm before that.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Sandefjord played away with similar odds. This revealed 7 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 2 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 5 times.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Sandefjord manager Tegström as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Flint.
Sandefjord has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 9 goals from 5 games. 7 goals have been conceded by Sandefjord in these games.
Head 2 Head
Viking-Sandefjord H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Viking five wins, Sandefjord three wins, two draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  V. Berisha 8 goals |  S. Sebulonsen 4 goals |   A. Tveter 4 goals |
Viking missing players
Sandefjord missing players
| Viking | Sandefjord | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 21 | 12 | 9 | Scored | S | 5 | 9 | 12 |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 16 |
| 91% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 73% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 88% |
| 45% | 33% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 80% | 88% |
| 27% | 17% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 40% | 50% |
| 27% | 17% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 20% | 25% |
| 55% | 33% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 20% | 50% |
| 45% | 67% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 40% | 25% |
| 9% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 25% |
| 7.7 | 8.5 | 8.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.4 | 4.8 |
| 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 11 | 11.2 | 8.8 |
| 1.9 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17.5 | 16.7 | 19 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 11.4 | 11.2 |
| 6.1 | 6.7 | 8.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 4.2 | 4 |
| 31% | 30% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 71% | 43% | 38% |
| 10.5 | 8.7 | 11.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 21 | 22.6 | 20.2 |
| 2.4 | 1 | 1.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
- Sandefjord have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Sandefjord haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Viking have not yet lost a game at home.
- Viking have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Viking have the most scored goals in the second half (15) in Eliteserien
- Viking have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lillestrøm | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 24 |
| 2 | Molde | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 22 |
| 3 | Viking | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 21 |
| 4 | Strømsgodset | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 |
| 5 | Aalesund | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 15 |
| 6 | Rosenborg | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 14 |
| 7 | Sarpsborg 08 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
| 8 | Bodø / Glimt | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 9 | Odd | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 12 |
| 10 | Tromsø | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 11 |
| 11 | Vålerenga | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -9 | 10 |
| 12 | HamKam | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 13 | Sandefjord | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 14 | Haugesund | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | -6 | 8 |
| 15 | Jerv | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -13 | 7 |
| 16 | Kristiansund | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | -9 | 1 |
- Viking
- Aftenbladet - (local newspaper)
- Vikinghordene - (supporter site)
- Eliteserien official site
- VG - (newspaper)
- Aftenposten - (newspaper)
- Dagbladet - (newspaper)
