National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Bærum or HamKam that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Bærum and HamKam.
Bærum form and stats
Bærum have reached this NM Cup stage through battling and winning against Skeid and Asker. Last season, Bærum's NM Cup journey ended in the 1st round.A strong away win for Bærum against Stjørdals-Blink the last match, as Vogt and Bransdal were on target. The host team have an in-form goalscorer in Bransdal, having found the net in seven consecutive matches.
Before that result, a home victory hosting Skeid in the NM Cup.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Bærum as they have a new game in only three days, a 2. Division: Group 2 match thankfully also at home. Kvik Halden are visiting.
HamKam form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Nybergsund and Mjølner in order to reach 3rd round of NM Cup. HamKam's mission in NM Cup last season failed in the 3rd round.0-0-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for HamKam in their Eliteserien matches away.
Two away games in a row for HamKam, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-4 versus Rosenborg. HamKam lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. The attacker Kirkevold got a match rating of 7.12 in that game. Kirkevold hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.
Before that, the NM Cup victory away at Mjølner.
HamKam have another fixture away in just four nights, a Eliteserien game versus Bodø / Glimt. A hard programme for the visitors!
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far HamKam have scored 5 goals in 4 league games away. There are big problems for the HamKam defense as they have conceded 17 goals in 4 away games.
Head 2 Head
Data for the previous six meetings featuring these two teams are: one win for Bærum, one draw and four wins for HamKam. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: one game.
Top Goalscorers
  L. Bransdal 6 goals | R. Sørensen Løvseth 5 goals |   H. Udahl 3 goals |
Bærum missing players
HamKam missing players
| Bærum | HamKam | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Lost | L | 9 | 16 | ||
| 47 | 27 | Scored | S | 24 | 36 | ||
| 46 | 26 | Conceded | C | 31 | 53 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 84% | ||
| 76% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 85% | 72% | ||
| 44% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 62% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 38% | 28% | ||
| 64% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 32% | ||
| 4.8 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.2 | ||
| 4.7 | 5.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.8 | 0.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | ||
| 10.6 | 9.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 8.7 | ||
| 5.4 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 2.9 | ||
| 35% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 65% | 52% | ||
| 10.4 | 10.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.1 | 9.5 | ||
| 5.7 | 5.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.5 | ||
| 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 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 20 | 28 |
| 2 | Brann | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 20 |
| 3 | Tromsø | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 |
| 4 | Molde | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 16 |
| 5 | Lillestrøm | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| 6 | Sarpsborg 08 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
| 7 | Viking | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 14 |
| 8 | Stabæk | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | -3 | 14 |
| 9 | Rosenborg | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -1 | 12 |
| 10 | Vålerenga | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -2 | 10 |
| 11 | Odd | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -4 | 10 |
| 12 | Sandefjord | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | -2 | 9 |
| 13 | Haugesund | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 9 |
| 14 | Strømsgodset | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -4 | 8 |
| 15 | HamKam | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 17 | -13 | 7 |
| 16 | Aalesund | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 12 | -15 | 4 |
