4th place in the Allsvenskan table for Elfsborg so far this season, a potent performance. The match-going followers hope for more goals as 9th-placed Sirius visit Borås Arena.
- Elfsborg have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sirius have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
This could be an intriguing fixture with lots of fun and energy as both sides are well recovered since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Sirius 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 4-7-10 (win-draw-loss) from 21 matches.
Elfsborg form and stats
Elfsborg have played 12 Allsvenskan games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 7-2-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Elfsborg are confident in defense, having played 189 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
Happy days for Elfsborg in their previous game, a Allsvenskan match away at Djurgården (placed 2nd) that ended with a 3-0 victory. Midfield player Rasmus Alm got a match rating of 8.24 in that game, the max score being 10. Alm scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
In the game before, an away victory in the Svenska Cupen match versus Stockholm Internazionale with a 3-0 scoreline.There will be little rest for Elfsborg after this match as they are travelling to Degerfors for a Allsvenskan game in only four days.
Elfsborg have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Borås Arena with 21 goals in 12 league matches. On the other hand, Elfsborg have conceded 13 goals.
Sirius form and stats
Sirius have only collected 11 points from their away games in the Allsvenskan, after 2-5-5 (12 played).
Impressive finishing from Adam Hellborg and Marcus Mathisen secured the home win 2-1 against Varberg in their previous game. Marcus Mathisen was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.01. The defender Mathisen scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 7 of 12 duels.
A 1-3 defeat away at Kalmar before that.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Hammarby in just three days.
Sirius have scored 13 goals on their travels this season, from 12 away games in the league. The Sirius manager D. Bäckström has some worries about the defense as 25 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The newest archived match involving both these squads is the Sirius - Elfsborg 0-2 played previously this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Elfsborg victories, three draws and four Sirius wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Kouakou 11 goals |   P. Frick 6 goals |  J. Okkels 5 goals |
Elfsborg missing players
Sirius missing players
| Elfsborg | Sirius | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 23 |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 38 | 21 | 8 | Scored | S | 2 | 13 | 26 |
| 25 | 13 | 6 | Conceded | C | 10 | 25 | 37 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 96% |
| 74% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 78% |
| 57% | 58% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 52% |
| 30% | 33% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 42% | 26% |
| 9% | 17% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 17% | 13% |
| 39% | 42% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 75% | 61% |
| 43% | 42% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | 22% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 25% | 22% |
| 5.3 | 5.3 | 3.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 4 | 4.2 |
| 5.7 | 4.5 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 5.2 | 6 |
| 2.2 | 2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.4 | 13.4 | 11.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.3 | 11.5 | 11.9 |
| 4.7 | 4.9 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
| 36% | 36% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 28% | 26% |
- Elfsborg have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Elfsborg haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sirius have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 | Malmö FF | 23 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 48 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 23 | 44 |
| 2 | Djurgården | 23 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 37 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 16 | 44 |
| 3 | AIK | 23 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 32 | 19 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 44 |
| 4 | Elfsborg | 23 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 38 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 42 |
| 5 | Norrköping | 23 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 37 | 28 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 9 | 39 |
| 6 | Hammarby | 23 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 37 | 30 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 7 | 37 |
| 7 | Kalmar | 23 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 27 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 37 |
| 8 | Häcken | 23 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 6 | 31 |
| 9 | Sirius | 23 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 26 | 37 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 25 | -11 | 30 |
| 10 | Varberg | 23 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 29 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 17 | -3 | 28 |
| 11 | Mjallby | 23 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 22 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 27 |
| 12 | IFK Göteborg | 23 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 26 | 32 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 17 | -6 | 25 |
| 13 | Degerfors | 23 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 25 | 40 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 26 | -15 | 25 |
| 14 | Halmstad | 23 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 14 | -5 | 23 |
| 15 | Örebro | 23 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 46 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 30 | -30 | 16 |
| 16 | Östersunds FK | 23 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 41 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 17 | 19 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 22 | -21 | 13 |
- IF Elfsborg
- Svenska Fans: Elfsborg - (supporter blog)
- Sirius
- Svenska Fans: Sirius - (supporter blog)
- Allsvenskan official site
- Dagens Nyheter - (newspaper)
- Aftonbladet / Sportbladet - (newspaper)
- Expressen - (newspaper)