Soccer preview: Home fans have high expectations when Start receive Åsane

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Competition: Norway Obos-Ligaen
Competition: Sat 02.October
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sparebanken Sør Arena (14448 seats)

Start are ready to take no notice of the league table before this match vs Åsane. Here's everything you should know before the game!

Insights:
  • Start have the most dropped points from leading position (21) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Åsane haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

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 Start and Åsane.

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Start form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Obos-Ligaen this season. Start have only managed 2 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Sparebanken Sør Arena. Start are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Sparebanken Sør Arena, having lost their two previous games here.

A strong away win for Start against Raufoss the last match, as J. Tveita and E. Marković (2) were on target.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Fredrikstad (2-6).

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Start's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played five games, won four matches, drawn zero and lost one.

Start have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Sparebanken Sør Arena with 18 goals in 10 league matches. Neutralizing the opposition is a challenge, Start having conceded 26 goals here at Sparebanken Sør Arena so far.

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Åsane form and stats

The visitors are W3-D2-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Obos-Ligaen.

Åsane are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Obos-Ligaen against Sogndal (placed 5th).

A 2-2 draw at Ranheim's stadium before that.

Åsane have scored 10 goals on their travels this season, from 10 away games in the league. As for defending, Åsane rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 16 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Åsane - Start 2-0 was the scoreline in these contenders' last head to head fixture, played this season. Stats for the preceeding three meetings featuring these two sides are: one win for Start, zero draws and two wins for Åsane. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: one game.

Top Goalscorers

StartE. Marković
E. Marković
10 goals
ÅsaneJ. Vatle Hammersland
J. Vatle Hammersland
7 goals
ÅsaneH. Lorentzen
H. Lorentzen
7 goals

Start missing players

Åsane missing players

Start Åsane
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 10 3 Played P 3 10 21
7 2 0 Won W 2 3 8
4 2 1 Drew D 0 2 3
10 6 2 Lost L 1 5 10
40 18 5 Scored S 2 10 26
44 26 7 Conceded C 1 16 38
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 70% 76%
71% 70% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 62%
62% 70% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 48%
43% 60% 67% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
86% 90% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 60% 62%
10% 10% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 20% 19%
5% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 20% 19%
 
5.1 4.7 4 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 3.6 4
7.1 6.9 8.7 Corners against (avg) C A 3.3 6.2 5.6
1.7 1.6 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 2.6 2.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.9 13.2 12.3 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8.1 9
5 4.9 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.2 4
38% 37% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 31% 31%
Key stats in Obos-Ligaen this season:
  • All of Start's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Start have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Start have the fewest points (8) at home in Obos-Ligaen
  • Start have the most conceded goals (26) at home in Obos-Ligaen
  • Start have the most dropped points from leading position (21) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Start have the most matches over the total-line (15) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Start have the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in Obos-Ligaen
  • Start haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Åsane 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 21 15 3 3 48 17 11 8 1 2 27 12 10 7 2 1 21 5 31 48
2 Aalesund 21 12 6 3 46 28 10 7 3 0 27 12 11 5 3 3 19 16 18 42
3 Jerv 21 12 5 4 38 34 11 6 4 1 19 14 10 6 1 3 19 20 4 41
4 Fredrikstad 21 11 5 5 45 30 10 7 2 1 24 10 11 4 3 4 21 20 15 38
5 Sogndal 21 9 5 7 30 23 11 5 4 2 17 12 10 4 1 5 13 11 7 32
6 KFUM 21 8 7 6 32 30 10 6 2 2 18 11 11 2 5 4 14 19 2 31
7 Raufoss 21 8 3 10 37 35 11 6 0 5 23 17 10 2 3 5 14 18 2 27
8 Ranheim 21 7 6 8 38 39 11 5 3 3 22 19 10 2 3 5 16 20 -1 27
9 Åsane 21 8 3 10 26 38 11 5 1 5 16 22 10 3 2 5 10 16 -12 27
10 Bryne 21 7 4 10 31 34 11 5 3 3 20 14 10 2 1 7 11 20 -3 25
11 Start 21 7 4 10 40 44 10 2 2 6 18 26 11 5 2 4 22 18 -4 25
12 Sandnes Ulf 21 6 5 10 27 36 10 4 2 4 17 18 11 2 3 6 10 18 -9 23
13 Stjørdals-Blink 21 7 2 12 23 37 10 5 2 3 13 8 11 2 0 9 10 29 -14 23
14 Ullensaker / Kisa 21 6 4 11 24 36 10 3 2 5 11 13 11 3 2 6 13 23 -12 22
15 Grorud 21 5 3 13 29 45 10 3 1 6 13 19 11 2 2 7 16 26 -16 18
16 Strømmen 21 2 11 8 18 26 11 2 6 3 9 11 10 0 5 5 9 15 -8 17

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.