Djurgården vs Degerfors pre-match info: Away side will have a difficult 90 minutes at Tele2 Arena

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 Djurgården and Degerfors.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Degerfors have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 6-1-5 (win-draw-loss) from twelve matches.

Djurgården form and stats

23 points is a decent return from 10 Allsvenskan games here at Tele2 Arena for Djurgården. The data says 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.

Djurgården drew their last game, 1-1 away at Malmö FF (placed 4th). The Djurgården goalkeeper Jacob Widell Zetterström was crucial in the match against Malmö FF last time out, making seven saves. Hjalmar Ekdal was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.11 out of 10. The defender Ekdal scored one goal and won 5 of 10 duels.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Hammarby in a game that was won 4-1.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Djurgården as they are travelling to their away game against Östersunds FK in the Allsvenskan. That match is four days after this one.

The Djurgården manager T. Lagerlöf has got the team scoring with 21 from 10 home games in the league. From these home matches, Djurgården have conceded only 8 goals. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

Degerfors form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Degerfors so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-7 (win-draw-lose). A depressing five defeats in a row for Degerfors in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Halmstad.

Degerfors failed to get anything from their last game, a Allsvenskan home match vs Sirius (placed 9th) that ended with defeat 1-2. Defender Sebastian Ohlsson was the best team player with a rating of 7.8. Ohlsson hit two key passes and won 3 of 6 duels.

Prior to that match, the Degerfors manager A. Holmberg faced defeat when travelling to Kalmar and losing 1-4.

With the team playing at home identified as having a victory chance of around 80% by the bookmakers, any useful result for the away side would be an eye-opener. Examining earlier matches with similar odds and Degerfors as the away team, we found two results. The numbers from these were zero away wins, zero draws and two defeats. The outsiders lost one of these fixtures by a margin of at least two goals.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Degerfors as they have only managed to score 6 times from 10 away games in the league. The Degerfors manager A. Holmberg has some worries about the defense as 23 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

Degerfors - Djurgården 2-0 was the outcome when these two contenders previously did battle, some time ago this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): Djurgården two wins, one draw and Degerfors two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

V. Edvardsen 9 goals

E. Chilufya 4 goals

N. Bärkroth 4 goals

Djurgården missing players

Degerfors missing players