National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Vidar or Viking that keep their silverware dream alive.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Viking have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 7-4-5 (win-draw-loss) from 16 matches.
These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.
It's no vacation for neither Vidar nor Viking as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Vidar form and stats
Vidar have reached this NM Cup stage through battling and winning against Brodd. Vidar participated in NM Cup the last season, where they reached the 2nd round.The Vidar fans enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Eiger and win 3-0.
In the game before, a strong away victory at Brodd. A NM Cup game.
The manager Sørli will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Madla in only four days.
Viking form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Forus og Gausel in order to reach 2nd round of NM Cup. Viking was sent out of NM Cup in the 3rd round last season.1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Viking playing as the away team in the Eliteserien this season.
Two away games in a row for Viking, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-5 versus Bodø / Glimt. Viking lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one. The attacker Salvesen got a match rating of 7.8 in that game. Salvesen scored one goal, hit one key pass and had 19 successful passes (of 22 total).
Earlier, the NM Cup win away at Forus og Gausel. Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Viking given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 5 matches with 5 wins as expected, 0 draws and 0 surprise home wins. The favourites won 3 of these games by at least two goals.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Molde in just three days.
Viking have the goal stats of 4-8 (for/against) from 4 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
As for the last three games between these two teams, there's one Vidar victory, zero draws and two Viking wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  S. Svendsen 3 goals |  Z. Tripić 3 goals |  S. Bjørshol 2 goals |
Vidar missing players
Viking missing players
| Vidar | Viking | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 5 | 9 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 7 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 8 | 9 | ||
| 56 | 31 | Scored | S | 29 | 52 | ||
| 48 | 19 | Conceded | C | 30 | 45 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 84% | ||
| 84% | 83% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 52% | ||
| 56% | 58% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 53% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 42% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 53% | 44% | ||
| 72% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 64% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 16% | ||
| 4.2 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.8 | ||
| 3.8 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 3.9 | ||
| 1 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.4 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11.2 | 13.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 10.7 | ||
| 5.5 | 7.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 4.5 | ||
| 42% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 46% | ||
| 10 | 9.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 9.1 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 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 | 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 |
