Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Vard & Bryne face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the NM Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Bryne could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Obos-Ligaen game only three sleeps ago.
Vard form and stats
Vard have not come this way in the NM Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Egersund. Vard participated in NM Cup the last season, where they reached the 2nd round.Vard's previous fixture was a NM Cup game also played at their own stadium, ending 3-1 vs Egersund. The home side hope to to continue in that form.
Ahead of that match, Vard won a home game hosting Arendal (3-0).There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Vard as they are travelling to their away game against Vålerenga II in the 2. Division. That match is four days after this one.
Bryne form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Rosseland in order to reach 2nd round of NM Cup. Bryne was sent out of NM Cup in the 3rd round last season.The story so far for the visiting team on their Obos-Ligaen travels is 0 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Bryne might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. KFUM proved too strong as Bryne slumped to a 0-1 defeat in front of their own fans at Bryne Stadion.
Ahead of that, the NM Cup win away at Rosseland.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Obos-Ligaen trip to Skeid.
The Bryne manager Knappen has some worries about the defense as 9 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Vard one win, one draw and Bryne eight victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Endresen 7 goals |  M. Diaw 3 goals | A. Stensrud 3 goals |
Vard missing players
Bryne missing players
| Vard | Bryne | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 7 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 36 | 22 | Scored | S | 16 | 35 | ||
| 45 | 23 | Conceded | C | 22 | 39 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 84% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 84% | ||
| 68% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 73% | 64% | ||
| 52% | 62% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 55% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 12% | ||
| 60% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 16% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 36% | ||
| 3.6 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.9 | 4.9 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 4.6 | ||
| 0.9 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7.6 | 8.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.8 | 11.2 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.4 | ||
| 44% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 32% | ||
| 7.8 | 7.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.3 | 9.2 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 3.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Fredrikstad | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 |
| 2 | Kristiansund | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 18 |
| 3 | Kongsvinger | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 18 |
| 4 | Start | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 17 |
| 5 | Sogndal | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 17 |
| 6 | Ranheim | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 17 |
| 7 | Moss | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 16 |
| 8 | Sandnes Ulf | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 13 |
| 9 | KFUM | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -1 | 13 |
| 10 | Jerv | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 12 |
| 11 | Hødd | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 11 |
| 12 | Mjøndalen | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -2 | 11 |
| 13 | Bryne | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -4 | 10 |
| 14 | Raufoss | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -1 | 9 |
| 15 | Skeid | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | -10 | 7 |
| 16 | Åsane | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 5 |
