National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Vard or Strømsgodset that keep their silverware dream alive.
This field has grass, which is not Strømsgodset's regular surface at their own football field. When appearing on grass Strømsgodset have performed like this: Played twelve matches taking 1 win, 3 draws and 8 defeats with the goal difference 13-25 (scored/conceded).
The visiting Strømsgodset played their last game only three days ago, a Eliteserien match.
Vard form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the NM Cup for Vard, as the manager Fosen led his troops to eliminate Bryne and Egersund, and reach the 3rd Round. Last season, Vard's NM Cup journey ended in the 2nd round.Vard's previous match was a NM Cup game also played at their home, finishing 3-1 versus Bryne. The home team hope to to repeat that performance.
Preceding that match, a home win hosting Egersund in the NM Cup.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Grorud are coming to town in three days.
Strømsgodset form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Eik Tønsberg and Heming in order to reach 3rd round of NM Cup. Strømsgodset was sent out of NM Cup in the 2nd round last season.The visitors are W0-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Eliteserien.
Strømsgodset failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Haugesund that ended with defeat 1-2. Vilsvik got a match rating of 7.82 in that game, top player of the team. Vilsvik scored one goal, hit two key passes and had 36 successful passes (of 39 total).
Before that, the NM Cup victory away at Eik Tønsberg.
Strømsgodset have another game that requires travelling in just four nights, a Eliteserien game against Vålerenga. A strenuous fixture list for the visitors!
Strømsgodset are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 5 games (in the league). For Strømsgodset, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Endresen 7 goals |  M. Mehnert 3 goals | M. Kuittinen 2 goals |
Vard missing players
Strømsgodset missing players
| Vard | Strømsgodset | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Lost | L | 7 | 12 | ||
| 36 | 22 | Scored | S | 16 | 36 | ||
| 45 | 23 | Conceded | C | 27 | 44 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 80% | ||
| 68% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 56% | ||
| 52% | 62% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 40% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 28% | ||
| 60% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 60% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 20% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 20% | ||
| 3.4 | 3.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.2 | 4.5 | ||
| 4 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5.1 | ||
| 0.9 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.4 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7 | 7.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.2 | 10.8 | ||
| 3.2 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 4.3 | ||
| 45% | 48% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 33% | ||
| 7.8 | 7.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 11 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4 | ||
| 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 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 20 | 28 |
| 2 | Brann | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 20 |
| 3 | Tromsø | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 |
| 4 | Molde | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 16 |
| 5 | Lillestrøm | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| 6 | Sarpsborg 08 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
| 7 | Viking | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 14 |
| 8 | Stabæk | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | -3 | 14 |
| 9 | Rosenborg | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -1 | 12 |
| 10 | Vålerenga | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -2 | 10 |
| 11 | Odd | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -4 | 10 |
| 12 | Sandefjord | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | -2 | 9 |
| 13 | Haugesund | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 9 |
| 14 | Strømsgodset | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -4 | 8 |
| 15 | HamKam | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 17 | -13 | 7 |
| 16 | Aalesund | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 12 | -15 | 4 |
- Strømsgodset
- Drammens Tidende - (local newspaper)
- GodsetUnionen - (supporter site)
