Twins from Stockholm enjoy sibling rivalry: AIK - Djurgården

This Swedish football derby is called Tvillingderbyt (The twin derby). It is between the two most successful clubs from Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. They are called twins because the two clubs were founded just three weeks apart in 1891. They first played each other in 1899. The rivalry is also found in ice hockey.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

AIK's stadium, Friends Arena, has a grass surface. Djurgården have artifical turf 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 Djurgården when playing on grass; 17 wins, 2 draws and 8 losses from 27 matches. They have scored 39 goals in these games and conceded 20.

AIK form and stats

AIK have been outstanding at home so far in the Allsvenskan with 9 wins, 2 draws and only 0 losses. In general it's been a long time since AIK tasted defeat here at Friends Arena, as they have taken at least one point from their last eleven home games in the league.

AIK faced defeat in their previous match, away at Degerfors (1-2). Defender Eric Ouma got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.85/10. Ouma hit two key passes and won 10 of 13 duels.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Kalmar that finished 1-1.

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

A decent goal production from AIK in their home games so far, with 20 goals from 11 league matches. From these home matches, AIK have conceded only 6 goals.

Djurgården form and stats

5 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Djurgården, who have the fewest conceded goals (17) in Allsvenskan, playing as the away team in the Allsvenskan this season.

It's the second away game in a row for Djurgården, but there's smiles all around after the 3-0 victory versus Östersunds FK (placed 16th) in the Allsvenskan last time out. It was a convincing performance from Djurgården when Östersunds FK were beaten. The team "killed" the match in the first half leading 3-0 and the second half was comfortable. Joel Asoro, Jacob Une Larsson and Edward Chilufya scored their goals. Defender Jacob Une Larsson was the best team player with a rating of 7.95. Larsson scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 6 of 7 duels.

A home win before that, celebrating 3-2 vs Degerfors.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Djurgården playing away and similar expectations, we found two relevant matches. Results were one Djurgården win, one draw and zero defeats.

The visiting Djurgården have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 10 games. It's not easy to score on Djurgården as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

These sides encountered each other earlier this match year: Djurgården - AIK 1-4. Last ten meetings involving these sides: AIK won six, Djurgården were winners in two and we saw two draws. one game with over 2,5 goals, nine matches with under 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

N. Bahoui 7 goals

N. Stefanelli 5 goals

E. Chilufya 5 goals

AIK missing players

Djurgården missing players