Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Norrköping welcomes Sirius

It's no vacation for neither Norrköping nor Sirius as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial 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 artificial turf is 9-4-7 (win-draw-loss) from 20 matches.

Norrköping form and stats

When playing at home, Norrköping have managed 2 wins, 2 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 5 games.

Norrköping drew their last game, also a home match. Sirius was the opponent, 0-0 the score. In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting AIK.

The Norrköping fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 8 goals in 5 matches. Norrköping have conceded 6 in these home matches.

Sirius form and stats

As the visiting team Sirius have produced an overall stat of 2-1-2 so far.

Sirius are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Norrköping. A loss against Djurgården was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Sirius have scored 5 goals on their travels this season, 5 away games. It's not easy to score on Sirius as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's 5 Norrköping victories, 2 draws and 1 Sirius win. 3 of these games ended with three goals or more, 5 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

J. Larsson 8 goals / 1 assists

C. Nyman 5 goals / 1 assists

S. Lundholm 4 goals

Norrköping missing players

Sirius missing players