A classic home victory, the away team steals it or a score draw? It's all up in the air when the mid-table teams Elfsborg and Sirius clash at Borås Arena.
- Elfsborg have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Elfsborg have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sirius have scored away.
3 - 2 - 7 with 12-28. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Sirius when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Sirius play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Elfsborg and Sirius should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Elfsborg form and stats
Elfsborg have played 10 Allsvenskan games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-4-1 (wins-draws-losses).
Elfsborg enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at GIF Sundsvall's place. The match ended 2-0 with Baidoo (2) scoring. Baidoo (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.11/10. Baidoo scored two goals, hit the woodwork once, hit four key passes and had 30 successful passes (of 32 total).
Before that game, the 3-2 home victory against Malmö FF.Sports bettors, take note: A review of the 14 latest league games reveals that 11 of them had at least one goal from each team.
Elfsborg can score goals in their home matches. After 10 league matches they have found the net 24 times. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Elfsborg defense is not exactly impregnable. 15 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Sirius form and stats
There's been little loot from Sirius's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 11 away games in the Allsvenskan. Sirius only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 4 draws.
Home advantage was not enough for Sirius in their previous game as they lost hosting Värnamo, 2-3. Widgren, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 9.72. Widgren served one assist, hit seven key passes and won 4 of 6 duels.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Djurgården.Many goals are not expected from the visiting Sirius as they have only managed to score 10 times from 11 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As for defending, Sirius rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 19 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Sirius - Elfsborg 2-0 was the score in these participants' latest head to head fixture, earlier this season. Previous ten meetings between these squads: Elfsborg won three, Sirius were winners in four and we saw three draws. four games with more than 2,5 goals, six matches with less than 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Alm 6 goals | M. Baidoo 6 goals |   C. Kouakou 6 goals |
Elfsborg missing players
Sirius missing players
| Elfsborg | Sirius | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 22 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 39 | 24 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 10 | 22 |
| 30 | 15 | 3 | Conceded | C | 6 | 19 | 32 |
| 95% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 82% | 91% |
| 86% | 90% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 73% | 68% |
| 50% | 70% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 45% | 45% |
| 41% | 70% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 36% | 23% |
| 23% | 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 9% | 9% |
| 64% | 80% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 36% | 36% |
| 14% | 10% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 36% | 32% |
| 27% | 20% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 45% | 41% |
| 6.3 | 6.6 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4.9 |
| 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6.5 | 6.6 |
| 2.3 | 2.6 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16.7 | 18.4 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.3 | 10.3 | 11.4 |
| 5.3 | 6 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
| 34% | 40% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 24% | 24% |
| 11.1 | 11.8 | 14 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.7 | 14.6 | 14.2 |
| 3.8 | 3.6 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
- Elfsborg have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Elfsborg have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sirius have scored away.
- Sirius have won significantly less corners away then 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 | Djurgården | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 43 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 27 | 45 |
| 2 | Häcken | 21 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 50 | 28 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 13 | 22 | 45 |
| 3 | Hammarby | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 43 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 23 | 41 |
| 4 | AIK | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 36 | 28 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 21 | 8 | 39 |
| 5 | Malmö FF | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 37 |
| 6 | IFK Göteborg | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 30 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 36 |
| 7 | Kalmar | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 36 |
| 8 | Mjällby | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 21 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 32 |
| 9 | Elfsborg | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 39 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 9 | 30 |
| 10 | Sirius | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 22 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 19 | -10 | 25 |
| 11 | Värnamo | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 37 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 28 | -11 | 25 |
| 12 | Norrköping | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 27 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -3 | 24 |
| 13 | Varberg BoIS | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 35 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 19 | -15 | 24 |
| 14 | Degerfors | 22 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 43 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 26 | -23 | 17 |
| 15 | Helsingborg | 21 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 33 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 20 | -17 | 14 |
| 16 | GIF Sundsvall | 22 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 57 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 28 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 29 | -38 | 10 |
- IF Elfsborg
- Svenska Fans: Elfsborg - (supporter blog)
- Sirius
- Svenska Fans: Sirius - (supporter blog)
- Allsvenskan official site
- Dagens Nyheter - (newspaper)
- Aftonbladet / Sportbladet - (newspaper)
- Expressen - (newspaper)
