This season has been challenging for GIF Sundsvall so far, and the same description fits Sirius. These weathered teams would trade their mothers for some vital points here.
- GIF Sundsvall have the most conceded goals (73) in Allsvenskan
- Sirius have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
For GIF Sundsvall relegation is already certain this season. Only divine intervention and/or time travel can save them and neither look likely. Sirius are struggling to avoid relegation. 2-3-6 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Sirius when playing away games on artifical turf, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has grass). Their goal statistics from those eleven matches are 10-25 (scored/conceded).
GIF Sundsvall 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.
GIF Sundsvall form and stats
GIF Sundsvall's struggle is real here at NP3 Arena with only 12 points collected from 14 Allsvenskan games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 4-0-10. GIF Sundsvall has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager Clarhaut and the players.
The club members are hoping that GIF Sundsvall will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-4 away loss in the match against Djurgården (placed 2nd). As you see from the result above, Sundsvall suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Defender Blomqvist got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.64/10. Blomqvist won 2 of 3 duels.
Before that game, the home loss against Värnamo with the scoreline 1-2.Scoring bonanza? We don't know what will happen in this one, but we do know that 11 of the 13 most recent league games with this side has had three or more goals.
GIF Sundsvall has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as GIF Sundsvall have allowed the opposition to score 35 goals here at NP3 Arena.
Sirius form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sirius so far with only 12 points returning home. The records show 2-6-6 (win-draw-lose). Two points from the last two away games for Sirius, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
Sirius's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Kalmar that finished 0-0. Rogić got a match rating of 8.14 in that game, top player of the team. Rogić dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 45 successful passes (of 53 total).
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Hammarby.Low-scoring game? 9 of this club's most recent 11 league rounds have contained zero, one or two goals.
The visitors have scored 11 goals from 14 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Sirius have conceded 23 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The latest logged result featuring both these squads is the Sirius - GIF Sundsvall 2-1 played earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Sundsvall victories, zero draws and five Sirius wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  P. Engblom 10 goals |   C. Kouakou 6 goals |  S. Ylätupa 5 goals |
GIF Sundsvall missing players
Sirius missing players
| GIF Sundsvall | Sirius | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 14 | 28 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 22 | 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 26 | 18 | 5 | Scored | S | 3 | 11 | 26 |
| 73 | 35 | 11 | Conceded | C | 0 | 23 | 37 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 79% | 86% |
| 93% | 93% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 25% | 71% | 68% |
| 68% | 71% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 43% | 39% |
| 50% | 50% | 75% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 18% |
| 25% | 36% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 7% | 7% |
| 64% | 71% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 36% | 36% |
| 7% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 36% | 36% |
| 29% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 43% |
| 3.4 | 3.7 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.9 |
| 7.4 | 6.6 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.8 | 6.9 | 7 |
| 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9.7 | 10.8 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 9.6 | 10.5 |
| 3.2 | 3.9 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| 29% | 33% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 23% | 25% |
| 19 | 17.9 | 12.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.5 | 14.4 | 14.1 |
| 7 | 7.2 | 5.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.2 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
- GIF Sundsvall have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- GIF Sundsvall have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- GIF Sundsvall have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- GIF Sundsvall have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Allsvenskan
- GIF Sundsvall have the most conceded goals (35) at home in Allsvenskan
- GIF Sundsvall have the most conceded goals (73) in Allsvenskan
- GIF Sundsvall have the most conceded goals in the first half (37) in Allsvenskan
- GIF Sundsvall have the most conceded goals in the second half (36) in Allsvenskan
- GIF Sundsvall have the the worst goal difference (-17) at home in Allsvenskan
- GIF Sundsvall have the the worst goal difference (-47) in Allsvenskan
- GIF Sundsvall haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sirius have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Sirius have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- 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 | Häcken | 28 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 62 | 34 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 35 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 27 | 16 | 28 | 60 |
| 2 | Djurgården | 28 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 54 | 24 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 30 | 54 |
| 3 | Hammarby | 28 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 54 | 25 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 33 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 14 | 29 | 50 |
| 4 | Kalmar | 28 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 35 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 48 |
| 5 | AIK | 28 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 43 | 34 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 24 | 9 | 47 |
| 6 | Elfsborg | 28 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 51 | 35 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 30 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 16 | 16 | 43 |
| 7 | Malmö FF | 28 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 37 | 30 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 7 | 42 |
| 8 | IFK Göteborg | 28 | 13 | 3 | 12 | 38 | 34 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 19 | 20 | 4 | 42 |
| 9 | Mjällby | 28 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 31 | 31 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 40 |
| 10 | Värnamo | 28 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 33 | 43 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 29 | -10 | 36 |
| 11 | Norrköping | 28 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 37 | 38 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 19 | -1 | 33 |
| 12 | Sirius | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 26 | 37 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 23 | -11 | 32 |
| 13 | Degerfors | 28 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 30 | 47 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 29 | -17 | 29 |
| 14 | Varberg | 28 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 26 | 50 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 30 | -24 | 28 |
| 15 | Helsingborg | 28 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 47 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 27 | -25 | 17 |
| 16 | GIF Sundsvall | 28 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 26 | 73 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 18 | 35 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 38 | -47 | 14 |
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