Trying to decrease the distance up to the top clubs is the subject when these two mid-table clubs fight it out. Both will be aiming to improve their league status, Viking in 6th and Tromsø in 7th place.
- Viking have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Tromsø have yet to win a game away.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1900 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
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!
Viking form and stats
Viking have collected 18 points from their Eliteserien home games so far after 5-3-2.
Viking are returning here after visiting HamKam and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Svendsen and Løkberg scored the goal(s). Sweet to taste a league victory after five games without one. Manager Jensen felt very clever after Svendsen scored the winning goal against HamKam, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 70th minute. Bjørshol, defender, was given a rating of 7.44/10 in that game, top of the team. Bjørshol won 9 of 15 duels.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Rosenborg (1-4).The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Viking have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 10 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 3 and lost 2.
Some goal stats: A review of the 14 most recent league matches reveals that 13 of them had at least one goal from each team.
The Viking fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 17 goals in 10 league matches. Viking are not conceding a lot of goals here at SR-Bank Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 10 matches. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Tromsø form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Tromsø so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 0-6-5 (win-draw-lose). Tromsø has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Tromsø go into this game after a win, the home game against Bodø / Glimt that ended 3-2. Attacker Mikkelsen got a player rating of 8.3 in the game. "Man of the match" Mikkelsen scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Haugesund's place.Tromsø are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 6 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.
Betting related statistic: Both sides have scored goal(s) in 16 of this club's latest 21 league fixtures.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Tromsø as they have only managed to score 10 times from 11 away games in the league. Tromsø have conceded 21 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The latest registered match involving both these teams is the Tromsø - Viking 1-1 played not long ago this season. Last ten meetings between these participants: Viking won four, Tromsø were winners in five and we saw one draw. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  V. Berisha 8 goals |   E. Bugale Kitolano 8 goals |  A. Mikkelsen 5 goals |
Viking missing players
Tromsø missing players
| Viking | Tromsø | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 11 | 22 |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 37 | 17 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 10 | 32 |
| 34 | 8 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 21 | 37 |
| 95% | 90% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 82% | 80% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 91% | 86% |
| 64% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 45% | 55% |
| 32% | 10% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 27% | 32% |
| 27% | 10% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 9% | 18% |
| 73% | 60% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 73% | 73% |
| 27% | 40% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 5% | 10% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 27% | 14% |
| 6.5 | 8.3 | 8.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
| 4 | 3.5 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.5 | 5.2 | 4.3 |
| 1.9 | 1.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.9 | 16.6 | 15.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16 | 13.1 | 13.5 |
| 4.7 | 5.4 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.3 |
| 36% | 31% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 22% | 34% |
| 12 | 8.8 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 12.1 | 10.5 |
| 3.4 | 1.7 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 4 | 3.5 |
- Tromsø have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Tromsø have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Tromsø have yet to win a game away.
- Tromsø haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Viking have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Viking have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Viking have won significantly more corners at home than away.
| 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 | 22 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 51 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 10 | 30 | 54 |
| 2 | Lillestrøm | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 39 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 18 | 44 |
| 3 | Bodø / Glimt | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 55 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 23 | 15 | 26 | 41 |
| 4 | Rosenborg | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 46 | 30 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 21 | 16 | 40 |
| 5 | Vålerenga | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 38 | 32 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 22 | 6 | 36 |
| 6 | Viking | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 37 | 34 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 26 | 3 | 32 |
| 7 | Tromsø | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 32 | 37 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 21 | -5 | 30 |
| 8 | Odd | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 26 | 36 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 17 | -10 | 30 |
| 9 | Strømsgodset | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 34 | 33 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 29 |
| 10 | Haugesund | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 33 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | -1 | 28 |
| 11 | Sarpsborg 08 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 38 | 42 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 24 | -4 | 25 |
| 12 | Aalesund | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 19 | -10 | 25 |
| 13 | HamKam | 22 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 26 | 28 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 15 | -2 | 23 |
| 14 | Sandefjord | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 35 | 50 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 17 | 22 | -15 | 22 |
| 15 | Kristiansund | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 24 | 42 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 19 | -18 | 16 |
| 16 | Jerv | 22 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 17 | 52 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 30 | -35 | 14 |
- Viking
- Aftenbladet - (local newspaper)
- Vikinghordene - (supporter site)
- Eliteserien official site
- VG - (newspaper)
- Aftenposten - (newspaper)
- Dagbladet - (newspaper)
