Delightful dogfight as daring Jerv duel with determined Sandnes Ulf

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.

Jerv's stadium, J.J. Ugland Stadion - Levermyr, has a grass surface. Sandnes Ulf have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Sandnes Ulf when playing on grass; 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses from seven matches. They have scored 8 goals in these games and conceded 12.

Jerv form and stats

Jerv are steadily winning Obos-Ligaen games and points here at J.J. Ugland Stadion - Levermyr. 5 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 9 games. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Jerv has won four games in a row. The HamKam match was the last time out without a victory.

Jerv's previous game was a Obos-Ligaen match also played at home, ending 3-1 versus Åsane (placed 8th). The home side are looking to build on that result.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Strømmen with a 3-2 scoreline.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Jerv have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found seven games) they have won four times, drawn two and lost one.

Jerv have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at J.J. Ugland Stadion - Levermyr with 16 goals in 9 league matches. Jerv have conceded 12 in these home matches.

Sandnes Ulf form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sandnes Ulf so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-4 (win-draw-lose).

I. Halgunset, J. Brune Aune, H. Taddese and J. Ekeland (2) scored in Sandnes's previous match, the home game against Ranheim that ended 5-4. As you can tell from the result, the match against Ranheim was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 9 goals, will the fun continue today?

Prior to that match, the Sandnes Ulf manager B. Berntsen faced defeat when travelling to Raufoss and losing 0-1.

Sandnes are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, four draws and six defeats. From a total of eleven matches.

Sandnes have another match away in just four sleeps, a NM Cup game against Moss. A back-breaking fixture list for them!

Sandnes are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 9 games (in the league). Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Sandnes have conceded 14 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these sides meet on the pitch this season, as the records show this recent fixture: Sandnes Ulf - Jerv 0-2. Jerv-Sandnes Ulf H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Jerv four wins, Sandnes Ulf two wins, four draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

W. Alvés Furtado 9 goals

D. Campos 6 goals

E. Hustad 6 goals

Jerv missing players

Sandnes Ulf missing players