Allsvenskan: Djurgården host Kalmar in what is nearly guaranteed to be an interesting football game. Here's a thorough preview!
- Djurgården have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Allsvenskan
- Djurgården have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Kalmar have scored away.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Kalmar 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 4-2-5 (win-draw-loss) from eleven matches.
The hosts Djurgården saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Europa Conference League. This match was also played here at Tele2 Arena. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Kalmar have had more rest.
Djurgården form and stats
Home games in the Allsvenskan have been a walk in the park for Djurgården so far, with 22 points won from 8 matches; 7 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.
Djurgården's previous fixture was a Europa Conference League game also played at home, ending 3-1 against Sepsi. The home side are looking to continue in that form.
0-0 away at Värnamo before that.Some goal stats: A review of the 10 most recent league games shows that 8 of them had at least one goal scored by each team.
Djurgården are traveling soon after this match as the Europa Conference League match at APOEL awaits in three days.
Djurgården always seem capable of creating a buzz here at Tele2 Arena with 25 goals in 8 league games. Djurgården have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Kalmar form and stats
Kalmar have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Allsvenskan, after 2-2-4 (8 played). Kalmar has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Kalmar won their last game, 1-0 versus AIK played at home. Berg has scored for this team three games in a row. The efficiency! Berg got a match rating of 8.21 in that game, top player of the team. Berg scored one goal, hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 40 successful passes (of 43 total).
Prior to that match, the Kalmar manager Rydström faced defeat when travelling to Degerfors and losing 1-2.Low on goals? 9 of this side's latest 11 league matches have had two or less goals.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Kalmar have scored 9 goals in 8 league games away. 10 goals have been conceded by Kalmar in these games.
Head 2 Head
The two teams in this fixture also played each other before this campaign: Kalmar - Djurgården 1-0. Statistics for the former ten meetings featuring these two squads are: eight wins for Djurgården, zero draws and two wins for Kalmar. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.
Top Goalscorers
  V. Edvardsen 6 goals |  J. Asoro 5 goals |   O. Berg 5 goals |
Djurgården missing players
Kalmar missing players
| Djurgården | Kalmar | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| 10 | 7 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 35 | 25 | 8 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 11 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 5 | 10 | 14 |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 65% | 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 75% | 59% |
| 53% | 88% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 29% |
| 41% | 75% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 12% | 6% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 35% | 38% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 62% | 41% |
| 47% | 62% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | 41% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 25% | 18% |
| 5.5 | 4.6 | 2.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.3 |
| 3.6 | 3.9 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.7 | 5.6 | 5.3 |
| 1.5 | 1 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16.4 | 18.9 | 15.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 12.1 | 12.9 |
| 5.9 | 7.6 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.2 | 4.1 |
| 35% | 41% | 62% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 26% | 27% |
| 9.5 | 11 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.3 | 11.5 | 10.8 |
| 2.5 | 3.4 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.9 | 3.5 |
- Djurgården have not yet lost a game at home.
- Djurgården have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Djurgården have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Djurgården have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Kalmar have scored away.
- Djurgården have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Djurgården have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Allsvenskan
- Djurgården have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in Allsvenskan
- Djurgården have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Allsvenskan
- Djurgården have the most points (22) at home in Allsvenskan
- Djurgården have the most points from losing position (11) in Allsvenskan
- Djurgården have the most scored goals (25) at home in Allsvenskan
- Djurgården have the the best goal difference (+21) at home in Allsvenskan
- Djurgården have the the best goal difference (+24) in Allsvenskan
- Djurgården haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Djurgården is in the best form (5-1-0) in Allsvenskan
- Kalmar have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Kalmar haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Häcken | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 42 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 13 | 17 | 35 |
| 2 | Djurgården | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 24 | 34 |
| 3 | Hammarby | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 34 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 21 | 33 |
| 4 | AIK | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 4 | 31 |
| 5 | IFK Göteborg | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 30 |
| 6 | Malmö FF | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 30 |
| 7 | Kalmar | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 27 |
| 8 | Mjallby | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 27 |
| 9 | Sirius | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 17 | -5 | 24 |
| 10 | Elfsborg | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 31 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 22 |
| 11 | Norrköping | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -3 | 19 |
| 12 | Varberg | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 17 | -16 | 18 |
| 13 | Värnamo | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 20 | -10 | 17 |
| 14 | Degerfors | 17 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 34 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 19 | -21 | 11 |
| 15 | Helsingborg | 17 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 28 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 16 | -16 | 10 |
| 16 | GIF Sundsvall | 17 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 16 | 43 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 19 | -27 | 10 |
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