National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's IF Ready or Strømsgodset that keep their silverware dream alive.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Eliteserien game only four days ago. That game, against Haugesund, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Strømsgodset.
IF Ready form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the NM Cup for Ready, as the manager led his troops to eliminate Grei, and reach the 2nd Round. Last season their NM Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.Ready's last game was hosting Grei and winning 4-0. As mentioned above, Ready "killed" Grei in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. The 4-0 win against Grei was decided after a strong and deadly first half, making the second half more of a journey towards the final whistle.
Before that, Ready had a 3. Division home game versus Drøbak / Frogn which ended with a victory 1-0.The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Strømsgodset to win. Let's see if IF Ready are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: one game found revealing zero IF Ready wins, zero draws and one defeat.
Strømsgodset form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Hønefoss in order to reach 2nd round of NM Cup. They also participated in NM Cup last season. This ended in the 3rd round.There's been little loot from Strømsgodset's travels as they have only collected 2 points from 7 away games in the Eliteserien. Strømsgodset only have 0 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws.
Strømsgodset lost away at Haugesund (1-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. The attacker Fred Friday got a match rating of 7.32 in that game. Friday scored one goal and dribled passed the opponent 3 of 5 times.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Hønefoss.Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Strømsgodset given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed three matches with three wins as expected, zero draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won two of these games by at least two goals.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Strømsgodset's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 18 goals in 7 travels.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  I. Friday 6 goals |  H. Stengel 3 goals |  J. Hove 3 goals |
IF Ready missing players
Strømsgodset missing players
| IF Ready | Strømsgodset | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 10 | 7 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 38 | 18 | Scored | S | 16 | 36 | ||
| 46 | 27 | Conceded | C | 27 | 43 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 8% | ||
| 48% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 64% | ||
| 24% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 12% | ||
| 36% | 43% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 24% | ||
| 3 | 2.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 5.8 | ||
| 6.3 | 6.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5.9 | ||
| 0.9 | 0.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 8.5 | 9.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.8 | 12.9 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.8 | ||
| 40% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 30% | ||
| 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 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 21 | 30 |
| 2 | Bodø / Glimt | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 25 |
| 3 | Lillestrøm | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 24 |
| 4 | Kristiansund | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 23 |
| 5 | Rosenborg | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 22 |
| 6 | Haugesund | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 22 |
| 7 | Vålerenga | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 21 |
| 8 | Strømsgodset | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 18 | -2 | 19 |
| 9 | Sandefjord | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -3 | 19 |
| 10 | Odd | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | -4 | 19 |
| 11 | Viking | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 27 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 19 | -3 | 18 |
| 12 | Sarpsborg 08 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -8 | 14 |
| 13 | Mjøndalen | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 12 |
| 14 | Tromsø | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -12 | 10 |
| 15 | Stabæk | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 16 | -12 | 9 |
| 16 | Brann | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 16 | -14 | 7 |
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