Varberg BoIS will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Häcken.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Varberg and Häcken.
Varberg BoIS form and stats
The story so far in the Allsvenskan for Varberg BoIS at their home stadium is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
Varberg shared the glory with Sirius in their last match, an away game that ended all square 3-3. Preceding that match was a defeat to Djurgården (1-2).
There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Sirius as Astrit Seljmani's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 1-3 and secured a draw after 90 minutes. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Varberg as they are travelling to their away game against Häcken in the Allsvenskan. That match is four days after this one.
The Varberg fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 7 matches. 8 goals have been conceded.
Häcken form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Häcken so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 0-4-2 (win-draw-lose).
The manager A. Alm was unhappy after their last game, a Allsvenskan match played at their home ground Bravida Arena. Häcken suffered a 0-2 loss to Kalmar (placed 14th). Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Norrköping.
It's a bit worrying for Häcken that their goalkeeper Jonathan Rasheed made seven saves in the Kalmar game last time out, but still couldn''t prevent the loss.
After this away game Häcken return home for a Allsvenskan game against Varberg BoIS. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Häcken have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 6 league away games 7 goals have been scored. As for defending, Häcken rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 11 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Seljmani 6 goals |   A. Toft Søderlund 5 goals | D. Irandust 4 goals |
Varberg BoIS missing players
Häcken missing players
| Varberg BoIS | Häcken | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 21 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 24 |
| 20 | 8 | 2 | Conceded | C | 5 | 11 | 15 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 83% | 86% |
| 71% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 83% | 79% |
| 57% | 57% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 57% |
| 36% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 67% | 43% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 57% | 71% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 83% | 50% |
| 21% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 17% | 43% |
| 21% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 17% | 21% |
| 3.9 | 3.3 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
| 4.9 | 5.9 | 9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.2 | 4.1 |
| 2.4 | 2.1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 148 | 72 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 32 | 67 | 208 |
| 53 | 25 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 25 | 80 |
| 40% | 40% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 28% | 30% |
- Häcken have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Häcken have yet to win a game away.
- Varberg BoIS have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Varberg BoIS 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 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 17 | 31 |
| 2 | Elfsborg | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 23 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 27 |
| 3 | Norrköping | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 25 |
| 4 | Djurgården | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 23 |
| 5 | Häcken | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 21 |
| 6 | Hammarby | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -1 | 20 |
| 7 | Sirius | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 24 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 19 |
| 8 | Mjällby | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 19 |
| 9 | Varberg BoIS | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 17 |
| 10 | Örebro | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 17 |
| 11 | IFK Göteborg | 14 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -5 | 14 |
| 12 | AIK | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -9 | 13 |
| 13 | Helsingborg | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 14 | -9 | 13 |
| 14 | Kalmar | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -6 | 12 |
| 15 | Falkenberg | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -6 | 12 |
| 16 | Östersunds FK | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -7 | 12 |
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- Allsvenskan official site
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- Expressen - (newspaper)