Obos-Ligaen match prediction: Little separates Notodden and Sandnes Ulf in quality

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Competition: Norway Obos-Ligaen
Date: Sun 28.July
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Idrettsparken (5330 seats)

Notodden hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 10 points and a 14th position in the Obos-Ligaen table. Visiting Sandnes Ulf holds 9th place with 20 pts.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Sandnes Ulf have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 8-10-9 (win-draw-loss) from 27 matches.

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Notodden form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories so far this season. Notodden, who have the fewest scored goals (5) at home in Obos-Ligaen, have only managed 1 win, 1 draw and 4 losses so far from their games here at Idrettsparken.

The fans are hoping that Notodden will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the Obos-Ligaen game against Nest-Sotra. Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against Strømmen.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Notodden here at Idrettsparken, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 6 games). On the other hand, Notodden have conceded 7 goals.

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Sandnes Ulf form and stats

Playing away, Sandnes Ulf have won 2 games, drawn 4 and suffered 1 defeat so far this season.

Sandnes Ulf are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the Obos-Ligaen against Ullensaker / Kisa. A 1-3 defeat away at Aalesund before that.

Sandnes Ulf are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 7 games. 8 goals have been conceded by Sandnes Ulf in these games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last four games between these two teams, there's 3 Notodden victories, 1 draw and 0 Sandnes Ulf wins. 1 of these game ended with three goals or more, 3 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

K. Eriksen
6 goals
O. Ugwuadu
6 goals
M. Brekke
4 goals / 1 assists

Notodden missing players

Sandnes Ulf missing players

Notodden Sandnes Ulf
Total Home Home vs mid Statistic Away vs low Away Total
14 6 0 Played 4 7 14
3 1 0 Won 1 2 5
1 1 0 Drew 3 4 5
10 4 0 Lost 0 1 4
15 5 0 Scored 3 10 22
24 7 0 Conceded 2 8 19
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 25% 57% 71%
79% 67% 0% Over 1.5 25% 57% 71%
57% 33% 0% Over 2.5 25% 43% 50%
29% 0% 0% Over 3.5 25% 43% 43%
14% 0% 0% Over 4.5 25% 29% 36%
50% 33% 0% BTTS 25% 57% 57%
21% 17% 0% Clean Sheets 75% 43% 43%
29% 50% 0% Failed To Score 75% 43% 29%
 
4.3 5.5 0 Corners For (avg) 6 5.8 5
6.1 5.2 0 Corners Against (avg) 7.5 8 5.4
2.2 2.3 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 1.5 1.2 1.2
2 1 0 Red Cards 0 0 1
Key stats this season:
  • Notodden have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Notodden haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Notodden
All Obos-Ligaen 2. Division: Group 2 NM Cup Club Friendlies
All Home Away
02-06-19 OB KFUM 4 - 1 Notodden
16-06-19 OB Notodden 0 - 2 Sandefjord
22-06-19 OB Start 0 - 3 Notodden
30-06-19 OB Notodden 3 - 0 Strømmen
21-07-19 OB Nest-Sotra 2 - 1 Notodden
28-07-19 OB Notodden 16:00 Sandnes Ulf
04-08-19 OB Raufoss 16:00 Notodden
11-08-19 OB Notodden 16:00 Sogndal
18-08-19 OB Strømmen 16:00 Notodden
21-08-19 OB Notodden 16:00 Nest-Sotra
Sandnes Ulf
All Obos-Ligaen NM Cup Club Friendlies
All Home Away
16-06-19 OB Jerv 0 - 0 Sandnes Ulf
19-06-19 NMC Sandnes Ulf 1 - 2 Viking
23-06-19 OB Sandnes Ulf 3 - 2 Tromsdalen
30-06-19 OB Aalesund 3 - 1 Sandnes Ulf
21-07-19 OB Sandnes Ulf 2 - 0 Ullensaker / Kisa
28-07-19 OB Notodden 16:00 Sandnes Ulf
04-08-19 OB Sandnes Ulf 16:00 HamKam
10-08-19 OB KFUM 13:30 Sandnes Ulf
18-08-19 OB Sandnes Ulf 16:00 Jerv
21-08-19 OB Ullensaker / Kisa 16:00 Sandnes Ulf

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Aalesund 14 11 2 1 29 11 6 6 0 0 17 4 8 5 2 1 12 7 18 35
2 Sandefjord 14 10 3 1 27 16 7 5 1 1 9 7 7 5 2 0 18 9 11 33
3 Start 14 9 1 4 26 18 8 5 1 2 17 10 6 4 0 2 9 8 8 28
4 Raufoss 14 9 1 4 28 26 7 4 1 2 15 14 7 5 0 2 13 12 2 28
5 Kongsvinger 14 7 3 4 17 12 7 5 2 0 13 5 7 2 1 4 4 7 5 24
6 KFUM 14 7 2 5 28 22 7 5 0 2 17 8 7 2 2 3 11 14 6 23
7 Nest-Sotra 14 6 3 5 19 14 8 5 1 2 13 6 6 1 2 3 6 8 5 21
8 Ullensaker / Kisa 14 6 2 6 29 19 7 5 1 1 18 8 7 1 1 5 11 11 10 20
9 Sandnes Ulf 14 5 5 4 22 19 7 3 1 3 12 11 7 2 4 1 10 8 3 20
10 Sogndal 14 6 2 6 27 24 8 5 1 2 23 14 6 1 1 4 4 10 3 20
11 Jerv 14 3 6 5 17 24 6 2 3 1 6 4 8 1 3 4 11 20 -7 15
12 HamKam 14 3 4 7 13 20 7 2 2 3 10 10 7 1 2 4 3 10 -7 13
13 Skeid 14 2 5 7 16 22 7 2 3 2 8 6 7 0 2 5 8 16 -6 11
14 Notodden 14 3 1 10 15 24 6 1 1 4 5 7 8 2 0 6 10 17 -9 10
15 Strømmen 14 1 6 7 11 22 7 1 4 2 7 7 7 0 2 5 4 15 -11 9
16 Tromsdalen 14 0 2 12 20 51 7 0 2 5 9 24 7 0 0 7 11 27 -31 2

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