Allsvenskan: What this match might miss in style it should pay back in guts and dedication. Get set for Hammarby - Värnamo!
- Hammarby have not yet lost a game at home.
- Värnamo have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Värnamo 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 4-1-6 (win-draw-loss) from eleven matches.
The hosts Hammarby saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Allsvenskan. That game was an away game at Degerfors, so at least Hammarby are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Hammarby form and stats
3-1-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Allsvenskan numbers at home for Hammarby so far this season.
Hammarby travelled for their previous game, a trip to Degerfors that ended 2-2. The Hammarby goalkeeper Dovin was crucial in the match against Degerfors last time out, making six saves. Defender Karlsson got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.25/10. Karlsson scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 6 of 8 duels.
Preceding that game was the away draw at IFK Göteborg that finished 1-1.The Hammarby manager Corvillo has got the team scoring with 9 from 4 home games in the league.
Värnamo form and stats
The visitors are W1-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Allsvenskan. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Hellberg, the Värnamo manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Värnamo aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 215 league minutes without a goal. Engvall was the last player to find the net.
The manager Hellberg was unhappy after their last game, played at their home venue Finnvedsvallen. Värnamo suffered a 0-1 loss to Kalmar (placed 7th). Zeljkovic got a match rating of 7.8 in that game, top player of the team. Zeljkovic hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times and had 25 successful passes (of 28 total).
Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Elfsborg's place.The visitors have scored 3 goals from 4 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As for defending, Värnamo rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 7 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Hammarby victories, two draws and three Värnamo wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  V. Đukanović 3 goals | N. Besara 3 goals |   M. Bustos 2 goals |
Hammarby missing players
Värnamo missing players
| Hammarby | Värnamo | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 15 | 9 | 5 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 18 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 11 |
| 90% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 90% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 44% |
| 50% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| 50% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 22% |
| 20% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 60% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| 20% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 22% |
| 30% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 44% |
| 4.2 | 5 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 9.2 | 7.8 |
| 4.9 | 4 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7 | 5.2 |
| 2 | 1.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 0.9 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13.7 | 16 | 21 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12.2 | 11.4 |
| 4.4 | 5.5 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5.2 | 4.4 |
| 34% | 41% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 14% | 18% |
| 13.8 | 12.5 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 15.2 | 12.1 |
| 5.4 | 4 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5.5 | 4.7 |
- Hammarby have not yet lost a game at home.
- Hammarby have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Hammarby have scored more than double the goals of Värnamo.
- Värnamo have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Värnamo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Värnamo 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 | Malmö FF | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 17 | 25 |
| 2 | Elfsborg | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 22 |
| 3 | Häcken | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 19 |
| 4 | Norrköping | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 17 |
| 5 | Djurgården | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 16 |
| 6 | Brommapojkarna | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 16 |
| 7 | Kalmar | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 8 | Mjallby | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| 9 | Hammarby | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -3 | 12 |
| 10 | Halmstad | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -7 | 12 |
| 11 | Degerfors | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 26 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 17 | -14 | 10 |
| 12 | Värnamo | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 13 | IFK Göteborg | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 14 | AIK | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -6 | 6 |
| 15 | Sirius | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -8 | 5 |
| 16 | Varberg BoIS | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -13 | 4 |
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