Betting preview: Linköping City vs Akropolis should be interesting

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

This stadium uses artificial turf, unlike Akropolis's home stadium. The visitors last 23 games on artificial turf have ended in 14 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses.

Linköping City form and stats

Linköping City have performed well here at Arena Linköping so far this season with 4 wins from 6 matches. Some points have also been lost, as they have drawn 1 game and lost 1.

Linköping City's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 2-3 versus Akropolis. Before that, Linköping City played out a draw 2-2 when visiting Team Thoren.

This is expected to be a close game, with Linköping City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Linköping City as a small favourite), we find one game. Linköping City has won 0 of these, drawn 1 and lost 0.

Linköping City are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Arena Linköping, having scored an impressive 16 goals in 6 games. On the other hand, Linköping City have conceded 6 goals.

Akropolis form and stats

Akropolis, who have the most points (14) away in Division 1: North, have an excellent away record so far with 4-2-0 from 6 games. In general it has been a productive period now for Akropolis as they haven't lost any of their last 16 games. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Rynninge game have they lost an away game, meaning Akropolis has taken points from nine away matches in a row.

Two travels in a row for Akropolis, whose manager K. Panagopoulos could celebrate last time after the Division 1: North win against Linköping City. Prior to that match, a home win 3-0 against Gefle.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Akropolis playing away and similar expectations, we found five relevant matches. Results were 2 Akropolis wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats.

Akropolis are a potent attacking force on the road with their 15 goals in 6 games on the road. As opposed to that, Akropolis have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Linköping City - Akropolis 2-3. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's 0 Linköping City victories, 1 draw and 2 Akropolis wins. 2 of these games ended with three goals or more, 1 match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Victor Söderström II 12 goals

A. Rajamohan 9 goals

Michael 7 goals

Linköping City missing players

Akropolis missing players