National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Sotra or Haugesund that keep their silverware dream alive.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Haugesund have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 6-8-13 (win-draw-loss) from 27 matches.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Sotra form and stats
Sotra have reached this NM Cup stage through battling and winning against Øygarden and Gneist. Sotra participated in NM Cup the last season, where they reached the 1st round.Sotra drew their last game, 2-2 away at Ullern. There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Ullern as Grasmo's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the 2. Division game versus Ørn Horten in only four days. This game is also played here at Straume stadion.
Haugesund form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Djerv and Fana in order to reach 3rd round of NM Cup. They also participated in NM Cup last season. This ended in the 1st round.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Haugesund so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-3 (win-draw-lose).
The club members enjoyed Haugesund's previous match versus Viking, a 4-2 win played at home. As you can tell from the result, the match against Viking was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? The attacker Ndour got a match rating of 8.64 in that game. Ndour scored two goals and hit two key passes.
hometeam won
Haugesund have another match away from home in just three days, a Eliteserien fixture versus Jerv. A demanding programme for the visiting team!
The travelling fans enjoy Haugesund's attacking play in away games, having scored 10 goals in 6 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Ndour 8 goals |  F. Falck 6 goals | L. Kilen 5 goals |
Sotra missing players
Haugesund missing players
| Sotra | Haugesund | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 8 | Won | W | 4 | 7 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 6 | 8 | ||
| 10 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 10 | ||
| 49 | 30 | Scored | S | 18 | 34 | ||
| 34 | 12 | Conceded | C | 16 | 38 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 92% | ||
| 92% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 76% | ||
| 68% | 82% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 52% | ||
| 40% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 45% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 20% | ||
| 64% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 24% | ||
| 3.8 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.9 | ||
| 5 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.2 | 6.1 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 9.7 | 10.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.1 | 11.9 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.1 | ||
| 39% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 47% | ||
| 12.5 | 14.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.5 | 12.4 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 4.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lillestrøm | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 27 |
| 2 | Molde | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 25 |
| 3 | Viking | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 21 |
| 4 | Strømsgodset | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 20 |
| 5 | Bodø / Glimt | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 19 |
| 6 | Rosenborg | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 17 |
| 7 | Sarpsborg 08 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 16 |
| 8 | Aalesund | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 16 |
| 9 | HamKam | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| 10 | Odd | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -6 | 15 |
| 11 | Sandefjord | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | -3 | 13 |
| 12 | Tromsø | 11 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 13 |
| 13 | Haugesund | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -4 | 12 |
| 14 | Vålerenga | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -10 | 11 |
| 15 | Jerv | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -14 | 7 |
| 16 | Kristiansund | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 9 | -13 | 1 |
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