Soccer match preview: Sogndal confident before travelling to Grorud

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Competition: Norway Obos-Ligaen
Competition: Sat 18.September
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Grorud stadion (1500 seats)

Scrambling Grorud are keen to pull off a surprise victory when they welcome enterprising Sogndal in the upcoming league round. It’s 16th vs 5th and the home supporters will have low expectations.

Insights:
  • Grorud have the most conceded goals (39) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Sogndal have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in Obos-Ligaen

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Grorud and Sogndal.

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Grorud form and stats

With 2 Obos-Ligaen wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats from their home games, Grorud are certainly not brimming with confidence. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here at Grorud stadion, with the home team losing four in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Sandnes Ulf game.

Grorud are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 2-6 away versus Aalesund. As you see from the result above, Grorud suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.

Ahead of that match, Grorud lost 1-2 at home to Stjørdals-Blink.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the NM Cup game versus Lillestrøm in only four days. This game is also played here at Grorud stadion.

Grorud has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. Grorud have conceded 15 from these games.

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Sogndal form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Obos-Ligaen travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

Sogndal won their last game, 2-1 versus Raufoss played at home. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager E. Bakke when A. Adams scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 46th minute.

A 1-2 defeat away at Fredrikstad before that.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Åsane in just four days.

Sogndal are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 11 away goals from 8 games (in the league). 9 goals have been conceded by Sogndal in these games.

Head 2 Head

The squads have faced each other previously this season, with the final score Sogndal - Grorud 1-0 written in the official records. Head-to-head data (for the last three meetings): Grorud won one game, zero matches ended in a draw and Sogndal got two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / one

Top Goalscorers

GrorudO. Aga
O. Aga
16 goals
SogndalA. Adams
A. Adams
7 goals
SogndalK. Hoven
K. Hoven
6 goals

Grorud missing players

Sogndal missing players

Grorud Sogndal
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 8 2 Played P 3 8 18
4 2 0 Won W 2 3 8
3 1 0 Drew D 0 1 4
11 5 2 Lost L 1 4 6
25 9 3 Scored S 4 11 28
39 15 5 Conceded C 3 9 21
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
78% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 75% 83%
67% 62% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 62% 61%
56% 38% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 22%
33% 25% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
67% 62% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 62% 72%
11% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 22%
22% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 6%
 
4.3 6.1 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 6.2 7
6.2 5.8 8.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 4.1 5.3
1.4 1.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2.4 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
8.2 9.6 9 Shots (avg) S ( 12.3 11 10.5
3.6 4.2 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 5 4.3
38% 26% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 28% 36%
Key stats in Obos-Ligaen this season:
  • Grorud have the fewest points (7) at home in Obos-Ligaen
  • Grorud have the most conceded goals (39) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Grorud have the most conceded goals in the second half (23) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Grorud have the the worst goal difference (-6) at home in Obos-Ligaen
  • Grorud have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Grorud haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sogndal have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sogndal have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Sogndal haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 HamKam 18 13 2 3 42 15 9 6 1 2 21 10 9 7 1 1 21 5 27 41
2 Jerv 18 11 4 3 34 29 9 5 3 1 16 12 9 6 1 2 18 17 5 37
3 Aalesund 18 10 5 3 35 23 9 6 3 0 24 10 9 4 2 3 11 13 12 35
4 Fredrikstad 18 9 5 4 37 25 9 6 2 1 22 10 9 3 3 3 15 15 12 32
5 Sogndal 18 8 4 6 28 21 10 5 3 2 17 12 8 3 1 4 11 9 7 28
6 KFUM 18 7 6 5 28 24 9 5 2 2 16 11 9 2 4 3 12 13 4 27
7 Ranheim 18 6 5 7 33 34 9 4 2 3 19 17 9 2 3 4 14 17 -1 23
8 Åsane 18 7 2 9 22 30 9 4 1 4 14 16 9 3 1 5 8 14 -8 23
9 Start 18 6 4 8 33 33 9 2 2 5 16 20 9 4 2 3 17 13 0 22
10 Ullensaker / Kisa 18 6 4 8 24 30 9 3 2 4 11 11 9 3 2 4 13 19 -6 22
11 Raufoss 18 6 3 9 29 31 9 5 0 4 17 13 9 1 3 5 12 18 -2 21
12 Sandnes Ulf 18 5 5 8 24 31 9 3 2 4 15 17 9 2 3 4 9 14 -7 20
13 Stjørdals-Blink 18 6 2 10 19 34 9 4 2 3 10 8 9 2 0 7 9 26 -15 20
14 Bryne 18 5 3 10 25 32 9 3 3 3 14 12 9 2 0 7 11 20 -7 18
15 Strømmen 18 2 9 7 15 22 9 2 4 3 8 10 9 0 5 4 7 12 -7 15
16 Grorud 18 4 3 11 25 39 8 2 1 5 9 15 10 2 2 6 16 24 -14 15

Read more about Obos-Ligaen

The Norwegian 1. divisjon (usually referred to as OBOS-ligaen) is the second highest level of football in Norway. 16 teams play each other home and away. After these 240 fixtures the top two teams in the league table are promoted, while another can promote through playoff. Relegation follows a similar system.