Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Melhus & Molde face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the NM Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Eliteserien game only three days ago.
Melhus form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the NM Cup for Melhus, as the manager led his troops to eliminate Kolstad, and reach the 2nd Round. Melhus was eliminated in the 1st round last season in the NM Cup.Melhus's previous fixture was a NM Cup game also played at their own arena, ending 2-0 vs Kolstad. The home side are looking to build on that result.
Preceding that match was the home 3. Division - Group 5 game against Junkeren that was lost 1-6.Molde form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Surnadal in order to reach 2nd round of NM Cup. They also participated in NM Cup last season. This ended in the 3rd round.1 win, 0 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Molde playing as the away team in the Eliteserien this season.
Molde are travelling after their nice 5-0 home win in the game against Sandefjord. As you can tell from the results above, Molde was very dominant against Sandefjord, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-0 (!) with Brynhildsen (2), Breivik, Linnes and Grødem providing the goals. Attacker Brynhildsen got a player rating of 8.75 in the game. "Man of the match" Brynhildsen scored two goals and hit one key pass.
Before that, the NM Cup victory away at Surnadal. As mentioned earlier, Molde will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 7 wins (6 by two or more goals winning margin), 0 draws and 0 surprising defeats.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Eliteserien trip to Viking.
The travelling fans enjoy Molde's attacking play in away games, having scored 6 goals in 4 league matches away. Molde have conceded 6 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  E. Breivik 4 goals | S. Mannsverk 3 goals |  M. Retsius Grødem 3 goals |
Melhus missing players
Molde missing players
| Melhus | Molde | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 30 | 22 | Scored | S | 30 | 61 | ||
| 60 | 37 | Conceded | C | 20 | 34 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 93% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 79% | 80% | ||
| 48% | 71% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 57% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 28% | ||
| 64% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 64% | ||
| 8% | 7% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 24% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 12% | ||
| 3.3 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 6.3 | ||
| 5.4 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 3.3 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 7.7 | 8.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.8 | 11.5 | ||
| 3.7 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | ||
| 31% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 52% | 54% | ||
| 10.8 | 8.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.8 | 7.7 | ||
| 5.3 | 4.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 2.7 | ||
| 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 |
