Obos-Ligaen duel: Close contest expected between Sandnes Ulf and Sogndal

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Competition: Norway Obos-Ligaen
Competition: Sun 06.Aug
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Øster Hus Arena

The visiting Sogndal team are thought to be odds-on at Sandnes Ulf, as the visitors own a 10 point advantage from their 15 league matches this season.

Insights:
  • Sandnes Ulf have the most scored goals in the first half (14) in Obos-Ligaen

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Sandnes Ulf form and stats

Sandnes Ulf have played 8 Obos-Ligaen games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-3-3 (wins-draws-losses).

Happy days for Sandnes in their previous game, a fixture away at Ranheim (placed 9th) that ended with a 5-0 victory. At last, a league win after four games without. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Sandnes Ulf played a great game against Ranheim and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 3-3 versus Åsane.

Goals keep coming in this team's league fixtures, with 5 in a row having three or more goals (over 2.5).

Sandnes are traveling soon after this match as the Obos-Ligaen match at Hødd awaits in three days.

A decent goal production from Sandnes Ulf in their home games so far, with 14 goals from 8 league matches. Sandnes Ulf have conceded 13 from these games. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Sogndal form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Obos-Ligaen travels is 3 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Sogndal are travelling after their nice 5-1 home win in the game against Jerv (placed 8th). As mentioned above, Sogndal was the only team on the pitch versus Jerv in their previous game, winning 5-1. This could be a tougher task. Nesso certainly enjoyed Sogndal's last game versus Jerv, appearing multiple times in the match report with three goals and the 5-1 victory.

Prior to that result Sogndal won their away game at Skeid. The scoreline was 4-2.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Kristiansund in just three days.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Sogndal have scored 11 goals in 8 league games away. Sogndal have conceded 11 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Sogndal - Sandnes 1-0 was the story when this pair of contenders previously played each other, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sandnes Ulf five wins, two draws and Sogndal three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Sandnes UlfM. Moldskred
M. Moldskred
7 goals
Sandnes UlfT. Høiland
T. Høiland
7 goals
SogndalV. Ingimundarson
V. Ingimundarson
5 goals

Sandnes Ulf missing players

Sogndal missing players

Sandnes Ulf Sogndal
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 8 2 Played P 2 8 15
4 2 0 Won W 2 3 8
5 3 1 Drew D 0 2 3
6 3 1 Lost L 0 3 4
26 14 2 Scored S 7 11 24
22 13 3 Conceded C 4 11 17
87% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 93%
73% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 67%
60% 62% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 53%
53% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 25% 27%
33% 38% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 25% 20%
60% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 62% 60%
27% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 20%
27% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 38% 27%
 
4 4.8 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 5.6 6
6.2 4.9 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.5 4.6
1.3 1.1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 0.8 0.7
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.1 13 12 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 11.4 10.7
4 4.5 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 4.2 4.1
43% 39% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 64% 32% 39%
 
10.5 9.8 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 10.9 10.2
4.1 4.4 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 3.6 3.3
Key stats in Obos-Ligaen this season:
  • Sandnes Ulf have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sandnes Ulf have the most scored goals in the first half (14) in Obos-Ligaen

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Kongsvinger 15 10 1 4 24 15 7 6 0 1 15 5 8 4 1 3 9 10 9 31
2 Fredrikstad 15 7 8 0 18 7 8 4 4 0 12 4 7 3 4 0 6 3 11 29
3 Sogndal 15 8 3 4 24 17 7 5 1 1 13 6 8 3 2 3 11 11 7 27
4 Kristiansund 15 7 4 4 29 22 8 6 1 1 20 8 7 1 3 3 9 14 7 25
5 KFUM 15 7 4 4 26 19 7 4 2 1 14 7 8 3 2 3 12 12 7 25
6 Start 15 6 5 4 32 24 7 5 1 1 19 10 8 1 4 3 13 14 8 23
7 Moss 15 6 4 5 18 20 8 5 1 2 8 5 7 1 3 3 10 15 -2 22
8 Jerv 15 6 3 6 24 27 8 4 2 2 15 13 7 2 1 4 9 14 -3 21
9 Ranheim 15 6 2 7 17 29 7 4 0 3 11 16 8 2 2 4 6 13 -12 20
10 Mjøndalen 15 5 3 7 19 23 8 1 3 4 8 11 7 4 0 3 11 12 -4 18
11 Sandnes Ulf 15 4 5 6 26 22 8 2 3 3 14 13 7 2 2 3 12 9 4 17
12 Raufoss 15 4 4 7 15 18 7 3 3 1 10 5 8 1 1 6 5 13 -3 16
13 Bryne 15 4 4 7 17 21 8 3 3 2 11 8 7 1 1 5 6 13 -4 16
14 Hødd 15 3 5 7 15 20 8 1 4 3 5 7 7 2 1 4 10 13 -5 14
15 Åsane 15 1 8 6 18 23 7 0 4 3 9 12 8 1 4 3 9 11 -5 11
16 Skeid 15 2 5 8 17 32 7 1 2 4 8 17 8 1 3 4 9 15 -15 11

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.