Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when AIK welcomes GIF Sundsvall

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Competition: Sweden Allsvenskan
Date: Sat 02.November
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Friends Arena (54000 seats)

The league table in Allsvenskan tells a story about these teams so far, with AIK leading GIF Sundsvall by 39 points. Match preview to follow:

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting GIF Sundsvall have a different surface at their stadium (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 7-4-7 (win-draw-loss) from 18 matches.

AIK are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions. GIF Sundsvall are struggling to avoid relegation.

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AIK form and stats

32 points is a decent return from 14 Allsvenskan games here at Friends Arena for AIK, who have the most clean sheets (10) at home in Allsvenskan,. The data says 10 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. AIK are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

The fans are hoping that AIK will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Allsvenskan game against Malmö FF (placed 2nd). A strong away win before that one, visiting Falkenberg and winning 5-1.

The AIK fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 19 in 14 matches. As for guarding their own goal, AIK have only let in 6 goals at home.

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GIF Sundsvall form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for GIF Sundsvall so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 1-4-9 (win-draw-lose).

GIF Sundsvall failed to get anything from their last game, a Allsvenskan home match vs Helsingborg (placed 10th) that ended with defeat 1-2. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against AFC Eskilstuna wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

The visitors have scored 9 goals from 14 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. GIF Sundsvall have conceded 21 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result GIF Sundsvall - AIK 1-1 entered in the official records. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): AIK won 4 games, 6 matches ended with a draw and GIF Sundsvall has 0 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 2 / 8

Top Goalscorers

AIKT. Elyounoussi
T. Elyounoussi
11 goals
AIKH. Goitom
H. Goitom
10 goals
AIKS. Larsson
S. Larsson
6 goals

AIK missing players

GIF Sundsvall missing players

AIK GIF Sundsvall
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
29 14 5 Played P 4 14 29
18 10 3 Won W 0 1 4
5 2 1 Drew D 1 4 8
6 2 1 Lost L 3 9 17
45 19 7 Scored S 3 9 30
23 6 4 Conceded C 9 21 48
90% 86% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 93%
76% 64% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 71% 79%
41% 29% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 36% 52%
14% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 14% 24%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
41% 21% 60% BTTS BTTS 50% 43% 62%
48% 71% 40% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 10%
21% 21% 20% Failed to Score F T 50% 50% 34%
 
3.7 3.6 4 Corners For (avg) C F 2.5 3.4 3.7
4 3.6 2.4 Corners Against (avg) C A 6 6.1 5.7
1.8 1.6 1.4 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 2.1 1.8
2 2 0 Red Cards R C 1 1 1
Key stats this season:
  • AIK have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • AIK have scored at least twice as many goals at home as GIF Sundsvall have scored away.
  • GIF Sundsvall have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

AIK
All CL SC EL CF AL
All Home Away Home vs low
01-09-19 AL AIK 1 - 0 Djurgården
15-09-19 AL Häcken 1 - 2 AIK
22-09-19 AL Hammarby 2 - 1 AIK
25-09-19 AL AIK 1 - 0 IFK Göteborg
29-09-19 AL Elfsborg 1 - 1 AIK
05-10-19 AL AIK 2 - 0 Örebro
20-10-19 AL Falkenberg 1 - 5 AIK
28-10-19 AL Malmö FF 2 - 0 AIK
02-11-19 AL AIK 13:00 GIF Sundsvall
09-11-19 SC Enskede 14:00 AIK
GIF Sundsvall
All Svenska Cupen Club Friendlies Allsvenskan
All Home Away Away vs top
26-08-19 AL GIF Sundsvall 1 - 2 Elfsborg
01-09-19 AL GIF Sundsvall 0 - 2 IFK Göteborg
14-09-19 AL Örebro 0 - 0 GIF Sundsvall
20-09-19 AL GIF Sundsvall 1 - 4 Djurgården
24-09-19 AL Kalmar 0 - 2 GIF Sundsvall
29-09-19 AL GIF Sundsvall 2 - 1 Sirius
05-10-19 AL GIF Sundsvall 4 - 4 Norrköping
18-10-19 AL AFC Eskilstuna 1 - 0 GIF Sundsvall
26-10-19 AL GIF Sundsvall 1 - 2 Helsingborg
02-11-19 AL AIK 13:00 GIF Sundsvall

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Djurgården 29 20 5 4 51 17 15 10 3 2 29 10 14 10 2 2 22 7 34 65
2 Malmö FF 29 18 8 3 51 16 15 12 2 1 34 7 14 6 6 2 17 9 35 62
3 Hammarby 29 19 5 5 71 37 14 12 2 0 45 14 15 7 3 5 26 23 34 62
4 AIK 29 18 5 6 45 23 14 10 2 2 19 6 15 8 3 4 26 17 22 59
5 Norrköping 29 16 8 5 52 24 14 10 2 2 30 8 15 6 6 3 22 16 28 56
6 Häcken 29 14 7 8 43 25 15 8 2 5 25 13 14 6 5 3 18 12 18 49
7 IFK Göteborg 29 12 9 8 39 30 14 7 5 2 19 6 15 5 4 6 20 24 9 45
8 Elfsborg 29 10 10 9 42 44 15 7 6 2 24 13 14 3 4 7 18 31 -2 40
9 Örebro 29 9 6 14 40 51 14 4 4 6 20 20 15 5 2 8 20 31 -11 33
10 Helsingborg 29 8 6 15 28 47 14 6 3 5 18 18 15 2 3 10 10 29 -19 30
11 Sirius 29 7 5 17 31 51 14 4 1 9 20 30 15 3 4 8 11 21 -20 26
12 Östersunds FK 29 5 10 14 26 45 15 4 5 6 19 20 14 1 5 8 7 25 -19 25
13 Kalmar 29 4 11 14 22 44 15 1 8 6 12 23 14 3 3 8 10 21 -22 23
14 Falkenberg 29 5 7 17 24 62 14 4 4 6 10 20 15 1 3 11 14 42 -38 22
15 GIF Sundsvall 29 4 8 17 30 48 15 3 4 8 21 27 14 1 4 9 9 21 -18 20
16 AFC Eskilstuna 29 4 8 17 23 54 15 3 6 6 15 23 14 1 2 11 8 31 -31 20

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