This has the potential to be an appealing fixture as Start have their supposed home advantage, while Brann are ahead 13 points in the Obos-Ligaen table.
- Brann have the most scored goals (36) in Obos-Ligaen
Start's stadium, Sparebanken Sør Arena, has a artifical turf surface. Brann have grass 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 Brann when playing on artifical turf; 10 wins, 7 draws and 12 losses from 29 matches. They have scored 53 goals in these games and conceded 48.
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 Brann.
Start form and stats
2-3-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Obos-Ligaen numbers at home for Start so far this season.
A good away victory last time out for Start, who won 3-0 against Stjørdals-Blink (placed 16th). At last, a league victory after five matches without.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Start as they are travelling to their away game against KFUM in the Obos-Ligaen. That match is four days after this one.
Start have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Sparebanken Sør Arena with 11 goals in 6 league matches. 7 goals have been conceded.
Brann form and stats
The strength of Brann on their travels this season is incredible with 18 points collected from 6 Obos-Ligaen away games. Brann has 6-0-0 on the road, with 19 goals scored and 5 conceded.
Brann are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the game against Bryne (placed 13th).
Observe that 8 of this team's 10 most recent league games have ended with three or more goals.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Stabæk in just three days.
The Brann manager Horneland has seen his team go crazy on the road this season, having scored 19 goals in 6 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Brann as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Start victory, five draws and four Brann wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Brunes 11 goals |   M. Rasmussen 7 goals |  B. Finne 5 goals |
Start missing players
Brann missing players
| Start | Brann | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 6 | 10 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | 11 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 19 | 36 |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 92% | 83% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 67% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 58% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 83% | 75% |
| 42% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 67% | 42% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 50% | 67% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 58% |
| 25% | 17% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 33% | 33% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6.3 | 6.3 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 7.5 | 8.8 |
| 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 2.5 | 3.4 |
| 1.7 | 2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14.7 | 14.8 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12 | 15.9 |
| 6 | 5.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 6 | 6.4 |
| 33% | 31% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 53% | 47% |
| 9.2 | 8.5 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 4.7 | 5.2 |
| 3 | 2.5 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
- All of Brann's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Brann have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Brann have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Brann have scored in all their matches so far.
- Brann have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Obos-Ligaen
- Brann have the most points (18) away in Obos-Ligaen
- Brann have the most scored goals (19) away in Obos-Ligaen
- Brann have the most scored goals (36) in Obos-Ligaen
- Brann have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Obos-Ligaen
- Brann have the most scored goals in the second half (23) in Obos-Ligaen
- Brann have the the best goal difference (+14) away in Obos-Ligaen
- Brann have the the best goal difference (+28) in Obos-Ligaen
- Brann have won all their away games so far.
- Brann have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Brann haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Brann is in the best form (6-0-0) 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 | Brann | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 28 | 32 |
| 2 | Ranheim | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 24 |
| 3 | Stabæk | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 23 |
| 4 | Mjøndalen | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | -2 | 22 |
| 5 | KFUM | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 21 |
| 6 | Sogndal | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 20 |
| 7 | Start | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 19 |
| 8 | Sandnes Ulf | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -5 | 19 |
| 9 | Raufoss | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 16 |
| 10 | Fredrikstad | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 13 |
| 11 | Åsane | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -8 | 13 |
| 12 | Kongsvinger | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 9 | -4 | 12 |
| 13 | Bryne | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | -5 | 9 |
| 14 | Grorud | 12 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -9 | 6 |
| 15 | Skeid | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | -10 | 6 |
| 16 | Stjørdals-Blink | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -12 | 6 |
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