Home advantage could prove decisive in Malmö FF - Djurgården battle

The hosts Malmö saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Champions League. This match was also played here at Eleda Stadion. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Djurgården have had more rest.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Djurgården have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 18-2-8 (win-draw-loss) from 28 matches.

Malmö FF form and stats

20 points is a decent return from 9 Allsvenskan games here at Eleda Stadion for Malmö FF. The data says 6 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.

The Malmö FF fans got no joy from their last match, a Champions League game also here at Eleda Stadion: A 0-3 defeat against Juventus. Midfielder Bonke Innocent was the best player on the team with a rating of 6.8 (out of ten) in that game. Innocent had 30 successful passes (of 34 total). Malmö FF lost the game against Juventus in the first half with a 0-3 deficit and could never come back from that.

In the match before that, Malmö hosted Norrköping and drew the Allsvenskan game 1-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Malmö FF handle that role? We have found six games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, two draws and one defeat.

Malmö are traveling soon after this match as the Allsvenskan match at Elfsborg awaits in four days.

The Malmö manager J. Dahl Tomasson has got the team scoring with 22 from 9 home games in the league. Malmö have conceded 11 in these home matches.

Djurgården form and stats

The visitors, who have the most clean sheets (9) in Allsvenskan, are W4-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Allsvenskan.

The supporters enjoyed Djurgården's previous game versus Hammarby (placed 6th), a Allsvenskan 4-1 win played at home. Attacker Edward Chilufya got a player rating of 8.35 in the game. "Man of the match" Chilufya scored one goal and dribled passed the opponent 3 of 3 times.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Sirius wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

Djurgården are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, zero draws and one defeat. From a total of three matches.

A quick return to home after this game, as Djurgården are hosting Degerfors in the Allsvenskan only four days away.

Djurgården are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 8 games (in the league). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far).

Head 2 Head

The two teams in this fixture also encountered each other before this season: Djurgården - Malmö 3-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Malmö FF victories, one draw and five Djurgården wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

A. Čolak 8 goals

V. Birmančević 7 goals

A. Nalic 5 goals

Malmö FF missing players

Djurgården missing players