National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Vålerenga or Bodø / Glimt that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's quite the trip for Bodø / Glimt when visiting Vålerenga as the cities are 1100 kilometers apart.
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.
Vålerenga form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the NM Cup for Vålerenga, as the manager Fagermo led his troops to eliminate Brumunddal and Kolbu / KK, and reach the 3rd Round. Last season, Vålerenga's NM Cup journey ended in the 3rd round.2 victories, 1 draw and 2 defeats. That’s what Vålerenga have to build on here at Intility Arena in the Eliteserien.
The Vålerenga crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Odd here at Intility Arena. Haug had a busy but productive day in the Odd match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented.
Vålerenga aren't scoring a lot here at Intility Arena in the league, with only 4 goals from 5 games. Vålerenga have conceded 7 in these home matches.
Bodø / Glimt form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Rana and Harstad in order to reach 3rd round of NM Cup. They also participated in NM Cup last season. This ended in the 4th round.The story so far for the visiting team on their Eliteserien travels is 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Bodø / Glimt goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 193 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Glimt are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the fixture against Aalesund. Wembangomo was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.14. The defender Wembangomo scored one goal and won 9 of 12 duels.
hometeam won
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Bodø / Glimt manager Knutsen as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Odd.
The travelling fans enjoy Bodø / Glimt's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 5 league matches away. Glimt have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Vålerenga victories, three draws and four Bodø / Glimt wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Pellegrino 7 goals |   V. Kjartansson 4 goals |  R. Espejord 3 goals |
Vålerenga missing players
Bodø / Glimt missing players
| Vålerenga | Bodø / Glimt | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Won | W | 7 | 16 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Lost | L | 3 | 4 | ||
| 37 | 15 | Scored | S | 26 | 55 | ||
| 44 | 17 | Conceded | C | 14 | 28 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 64% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 82% | 68% | ||
| 40% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 64% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 20% | ||
| 64% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 60% | ||
| 12% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 12% | ||
| 6.3 | 8.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 5.2 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.2 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.8 | 1.1 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 14.2 | 20.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.8 | 14.3 | ||
| 5 | 7.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.6 | 4.2 | ||
| 27% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 45% | ||
| 12.8 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 10.7 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 3.8 | ||
| 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 |
- Vålerenga
- Vålerenga På Nett - (supporter-driven news site)
- Klanen - (supporter site)
- Bodø/Glimt
- Avisa Nordland - (local news - mostly pay-to-read)
- Bodøposten - (local newspaper)
- Glimtforum.net - (supporter forum)
