This looks to be quite the action-packed clash at PlatinumCars Arena in the Allsvenskan. Norrköping is in 3rd place and receive Värnamo in 9th position. Learn more about the fixture here!
Norrköping's stadium, PlatinumCars Arena, has a artifical turf surface. Värnamo have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Värnamo when playing on artifical turf; 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses from nine matches. They have scored {11 goals} in these games and conceded 16.
Norrköping and Värnamo 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.
Norrköping form and stats
A Allsvenskan draw at home so far for Norrköping. Last season their home statistics were 5 wins, 4 draws and 6 defeats from 15 matches.
Happy days for Norrköping in their previous game, a fixture away at AIK (placed 16th) that ended with a 3-0 victory. Midfielder Sigurðsson was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.4 (out of ten) in that game. Sigurðsson scored one goal, hit six key passes, dribled past the opponent 4 of 7 times and had 28 successful passes (of 33 total).
In the match before that, Norrköping hosted Sirius and drew the game 1-1.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Norrköping have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 12 games) they have won 1 time, drawn 6 and lost 5.
Early season league goal statistics from Norrköping's 1 home game: {1 goals}, 1 conceded.
Värnamo form and stats
Only one away game in the Allsvenskan so far for Värnamo and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 4 victories, 4 draws and 7 losses from 15 travels.
This game can not go any worse than the previous one, the home loss versus Mjällby with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Johansson got a match rating of 7.42 in that game, top player of the team. Johansson hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times and had 52 successful passes (of 60 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus IFK Göteborg at their stadium, the result 1-0.Värnamo are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. From a total of 4 matches.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Värnamo has managed {1 goals} and let in 0 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Previous three meetings between these squads: Norrköping won two, Värnamo were winners in zero and we saw one draw. one game with over 2,5 goals, two matches with less than 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Nyman 1 goals |  A. Traustason 1 goals |  A. Sigurdsson 1 goals |
Norrköping missing players
Värnamo missing players
| Norrköping | Värnamo | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 6 | 7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 7 | 7.5 |
| 5 | 7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 9 | 7 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18.5 | 18 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 15 | 13.5 |
| 7.5 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 6 | 4.5 |
| 27% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 17% | 11% |
| 14 | 17 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 13 | 10 |
| 4 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Norrköping | Last season | Värnamo | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 10 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Lost | L | 7 | 11 | ||
| 40 | 24 | Scored | S | 17 | 34 | ||
| 42 | 20 | Conceded | C | 29 | 47 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 87% | 83% | ||
| 83% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 73% | ||
| 40% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 53% | ||
| 27% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 33% | ||
| 13% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 27% | ||
| 57% | 47% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 60% | ||
| 13% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 13% | 27% | ||
| 30% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 30% | ||
| 5.2 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 4.8 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.4 | 5.6 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.5 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 12.9 | 14.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.6 | 11.1 | ||
| 4.3 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 3.5 | ||
| 31% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 32% | ||
| 12.5 | 11.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.9 | 15.7 | ||
| 4 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.1 | 5.2 | ||
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Malmö FF | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Norrköping | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Djurgården | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Mjällby | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Kalmar | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Degerfors | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Hammarby | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Värnamo | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Halmstad | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| 11 | Varberg | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Sirius | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Elfsborg | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 |
| 14 | Brommapojkarna | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 15 | IFK Göteborg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -3 | 0 |
| 16 | AIK | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 30 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 69 | 37 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 38 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 31 | 16 | 32 | 64 |
| 2 | Djurgården | 30 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 55 | 25 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 30 | 57 |
| 3 | Hammarby | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 60 | 27 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 37 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 14 | 33 | 56 |
| 4 | Kalmar | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 41 | 27 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 20 | 14 | 51 |
| 5 | AIK | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 45 | 36 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 25 | 9 | 50 |
| 6 | Elfsborg | 30 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 55 | 35 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 33 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 20 | 49 |
| 7 | Malmö FF | 30 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 44 | 34 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 21 | 10 | 46 |
| 8 | IFK Göteborg | 30 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 42 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 23 | 21 | 3 | 45 |
| 9 | Mjällby | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 33 | 33 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 43 |
| 10 | Värnamo | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 34 | 47 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 29 | -13 | 37 |
| 11 | Sirius | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 31 | 42 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 25 | -11 | 35 |
| 12 | Norrköping | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 40 | 42 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -2 | 34 |
| 13 | Degerfors | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 32 | 49 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 31 | -17 | 31 |
| 14 | Varberg | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 31 | 57 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 25 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 32 | -26 | 31 |
| 15 | Helsingborg | 30 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 52 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 22 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 30 | -30 | 17 |
| 16 | GIF Sundsvall | 30 | 4 | 2 | 24 | 28 | 80 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 20 | 38 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 42 | -52 | 14 |
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