Possible nail-biting contest in Sogndal - Sandefjord game

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

This stadium uses artificial turf, unlike Sandefjord's home stadium. The visitors last 28 games on artificial turf have ended in 6 wins, 8 draws and 14 losses.

Sogndal form and stats

Sogndal are steadily winning Obos-Ligaen games and points here at Fosshaugane Campus. 7 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats is the summary from 11 games.

In their previous game, the manager E. Bakke led his Sogndal to a defeat in the Obos-Ligaen match away at Start. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Fosshaugane Campus. Ahead of that match, Sogndal won a home game hosting Kongsvinger (2-1).

This is expected to be a close game, with Sogndal perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Sogndal as a small favourite), we find six games. Sogndal has won 2 of these, drawn 0 and lost 4.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Sogndal as they are travelling to their away game against Skeid in the Obos-Ligaen. That match is three days after this one.

Goals are plentiful at Fosshaugane Campus in the league this season as Sogndal has scored 30 goals here in 11 attempts. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Sogndal defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 11 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Sandefjord form and stats

5-4-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sandefjord, who have the most scored goals (21) away in Obos-Ligaen, in their Obos-Ligaen matches away. Visiting Sandefjord has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.

Sandefjord won their last game, 3-1 versus Sandnes Ulf played at home. Before that, Sandefjord travelled to Nest-Sotra and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found one similar match played by Sandefjord in our archives, and the results are: 0 wins for Sandefjord, 1 draw and 0 defeats.

After this away game Sandefjord return home for a Obos-Ligaen game against Strømmen. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Sandefjord have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 21 goals from 10 away matches. 13 goals have been conceded by Sandefjord in these games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Sandefjord - Sogndal 0-3 earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Sogndal 3 wins, 1 draw and Sandefjord 2 victories. As for goals, 4 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 2 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

P. Engblom 15 goals

E. Schulze 6 goals

A. Ndour 5 goals

Sogndal missing players

Sandefjord missing players