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Competition: Norway Obos-Ligaen
Competition: Sun 13.Aug
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sparebanken Sør Arena (14448 seats)

The two squads are happy with a sweet season so far and fixtures like this one could be decisive. Get the info on Start - Sogndal!

Insights:
  • Start have the most scored goals (36) in Obos-Ligaen

Start have less rest than Sogndal in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Obos-Ligaen game only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Skeid, was also a home game here at Sparebanken Sør Arena. The away team is better rested.

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Start form and stats

Start have performed here at Sparebanken Sør Arena this season with 6 wins from 8 Obos-Ligaen matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 1 game and lost 1. Start has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Sparebanken Sør Arena. We remember; it was Sandnes Ulf.

The Start fans enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Skeid and win 3-0. The host team have an in-form goalscorer in Sawo, having bagged a goal in three consecutive games.

1-1 away at Kristiansund before that.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Start handle that role? We have found 9 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Sports bettors should know that 13 of the latest 15 league games from these players have had at least one goal from each side.

Start are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Sparebanken Sør Arena in their league games, having scored an impressive 22 goals in 8 matches. On the other hand, Start have conceded 10 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Sogndal form and stats

4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Sogndal playing as the away team in the Obos-Ligaen this season. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Sogndal, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Sogndal play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Sandnes Ulf (placed 13th). World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Flo when Grønner scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 68th minute.

Before that, Sogndal secured a home win against Jerv with the score 5-1.

Sogndal are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 6 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 12 matches.

Sogndal have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 9 league away games 13 goals have been scored. Sogndal have conceded 12 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have battled previously this season: Sogndal - Start 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Start five wins, four draws and Sogndal one victory. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

StartA. Sanyang
A. Sanyang
6 goals
StartH. Skogvold
H. Skogvold
6 goals
StartL. Mares
L. Mares
5 goals

Start missing players

Sogndal missing players

Start Sogndal
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 8 0 Played P 2 9 16
7 6 0 Won W 0 4 9
6 1 0 Drew D 1 2 3
4 1 0 Lost L 1 3 4
36 22 0 Scored S 1 13 26
25 10 0 Conceded C 2 12 18
94% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
94% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 78% 69%
88% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 56% 56%
53% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 25%
18% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 19%
76% 62% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 67% 62%
24% 38% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 19%
6% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 25%
 
4.4 5.4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 8.5 5.9 6.1
4.3 3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.2 4.4
1.6 1.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 0.9 0.8
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.5 12.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 11.4 10.8
5 6.1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 4.3 4.1
42% 45% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 33% 39%
 
10.1 8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 7.5 11.6 10.6
4.1 2.8 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.5 3.9 3.4
Key stats in Obos-Ligaen this season:
  • All of Start's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Start have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Start have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Start have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Start have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Start have the most matches over the total-line (15) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Start have the most scored goals (22) at home in Obos-Ligaen
  • Start have the most scored goals (36) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Start have the most scored goals in the second half (27) in Obos-Ligaen
  • Start have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Start haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Fredrikstad 17 9 8 0 22 9 9 5 4 0 14 5 8 4 4 0 8 4 13 35
2 Kongsvinger 17 11 1 5 29 19 8 6 0 2 16 8 9 5 1 3 13 11 10 34
3 KFUM 17 9 4 4 29 20 8 5 2 1 16 8 9 4 2 3 13 12 9 31
4 Sogndal 16 9 3 4 26 18 7 5 1 1 13 6 9 4 2 3 13 12 8 30
5 Start 17 7 6 4 36 25 8 6 1 1 22 10 9 1 5 3 14 15 11 27
6 Kristiansund 16 7 5 4 30 23 9 6 2 1 21 9 7 1 3 3 9 14 7 26
7 Jerv 17 7 4 6 28 30 9 4 3 2 16 14 8 3 1 4 12 16 -2 25
8 Moss 17 6 5 6 19 22 9 5 1 3 8 6 8 1 4 3 11 16 -3 23
9 Mjøndalen 17 6 3 8 24 26 9 2 3 4 11 11 8 4 0 4 13 15 -2 21
10 Ranheim 17 6 2 9 18 34 8 4 0 4 12 20 9 2 2 5 6 14 -16 20
11 Raufoss 17 5 4 8 20 22 8 3 3 2 12 8 9 2 1 6 8 14 -2 19
12 Bryne 17 5 4 8 19 23 9 4 3 2 12 8 8 1 1 6 7 15 -4 19
13 Sandnes Ulf 16 4 5 7 27 24 9 2 3 4 15 15 7 2 2 3 12 9 3 17
14 Åsane 17 2 8 7 22 27 8 1 4 3 12 14 9 1 4 4 10 13 -5 14
15 Hødd 16 3 5 8 15 23 8 1 4 3 5 7 8 2 1 5 10 16 -8 14
16 Skeid 17 2 5 10 18 37 8 1 2 5 9 19 9 1 3 5 9 18 -19 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.