National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Kjelsås or Stabæk that keep their silverware dream alive.
Kjelsås's stadium, Grefsen Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. Stabæk have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Stabæk when playing on artifical turf; 13 wins, 5 draws and 10 losses from 28 matches. They have scored {53 goals} in these games and conceded 53.
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 Kjelsås and Stabæk.
Kjelsås form and stats
Action has already taken place for Kjelsås in NM Cup as they have defeated Follo to reach the 2nd Round. Kjelsås participated in NM Cup the last season, where they reached the 3rd round.Kjelsås's previous game was also played at home, ending 4-1 versus Notodden. The home side are looking to build on that result.
In the fixture before, 2-2 away to Follo (after extra-time, 5-3 on penalties) (NM Cup).
Kjelsås are traveling soon after this match as the 2. Division match at Træff awaits in three days.
Stabæk form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Assiden IF in order to reach 2nd round of NM Cup. Last season their NM Cup adventure ended in the 3rd round.Things could have gone better for Stabæk in their Eliteserien away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right.
Stabæk won their last game, 2-1 versus Vålerenga played at home. Naess was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.82. The defender Naess served one assist, hit two key passes and won 3 of 5 duels.
Earlier, the NM Cup win away at Assiden IF.
Stabæk have another game that requires travelling in just three days, a Eliteserien game versus Lillestrøm. A grim itinerary for the visitors!
Stabæk have scored 4 goals on their travels this season, from 3 away games in the league. Stabæk can't defend away. 10 goals have been scored by the opposition in 3 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last two meetings: zero - zero - two (Kjelsås wins - draws - Stabæk wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  K. Høgh 4 goals |   V. Halvorsen 3 goals | R. Eggen Vinge 2 goals |
Kjelsås missing players
Stabæk missing players
| Kjelsås | Stabæk | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 11 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 5 | ||
| 37 | 22 | Scored | S | 20 | 39 | ||
| 24 | 11 | Conceded | C | 20 | 27 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 76% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 54% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 16% | ||
| 36% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 40% | ||
| 32% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 24% | ||
| 4 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.3 | 3.1 | ||
| 2.7 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 4.3 | ||
| 0.5 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.6 | 0.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 8.3 | 12.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.2 | 7.7 | ||
| 3.6 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.8 | 3.1 | ||
| 43% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 85% | 51% | ||
| 5.1 | 6.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.5 | 8.7 | ||
| 2.3 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 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 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 25 |
| 2 | Brann | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 17 |
| 3 | Sarpsborg 08 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
| 4 | Viking | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 14 |
| 5 | Tromsø | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | Stabæk | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -1 | 14 |
| 7 | Molde | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 13 |
| 8 | Lillestrøm | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 13 |
| 9 | Vålerenga | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 | Odd | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 10 |
| 11 | Rosenborg | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 9 |
| 12 | Strømsgodset | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 8 |
| 13 | HamKam | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | -9 | 7 |
| 14 | Sandefjord | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | -5 | 6 |
| 15 | Haugesund | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | -7 | 6 |
| 16 | Aalesund | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 12 | -13 | 4 |
