This match features two teams living in the basement of the Superettan, Ljungskile holding 16th place and Umeå lying 15th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Umeå 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 6-6-12 (win-draw-loss) from 24 matches.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 900 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Relegation threatens Ljungskile who should definitely be looking for some points here. Umeå are fighting to avoid relegation and will work hard for points.
Ljungskile form and stats
When playing at home in the Superettan, Ljungskile, who have the most conceded goals (45) in Superettan, have managed 3 wins, 4 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 12 games.
The Ljungskile goalkeeper Robin Wallinder is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 197 minutes without conceding a goal in the Superettan.
The spoils were shared in Ljungskile's previous game, also at home. Visiting GIF Sundsvall (placed 5th) travelled back with a draw after a 0-0 scoreline. In the game before, an away victory match versus Brage with a 1-0 scoreline.
This is expected to be a close game, with Ljungskile perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Ljungskile as a small favourite), we find five games. Ljungskile has won two of these, drawn one and lost two.
Ljungskile are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 12 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Ljungskile's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 17 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Umeå form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Umeå so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 2-4-6 (win-draw-lose).
Impressive finishing from B. Ajeti, A. Chennoufi and Jorge Juliá secured the home win 3-0 against GAIS in their previous game. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Oster wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Umeå in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Umeå, five draws and three defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Umeå manager B. Clarhaut as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Newroz.
The visitors have scored 10 goals from 12 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Umeå struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 19 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Ljungskile and Umeå have met before this season: Umeå - Ljungskile 3-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last five meetings): Ljungskile won four games, zero matches ended with a draw and Umeå has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / threeLjungskile missing players
Umeå missing players
| Ljungskile | Umeå | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 25 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 14 | 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 23 | 13 | 7 | Scored | S | 4 | 10 | 23 |
| 45 | 17 | 4 | Conceded | C | 2 | 19 | 40 |
| 88% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 92% | 92% |
| 80% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 67% | 72% |
| 52% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 33% | 44% |
| 32% | 25% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 28% |
| 12% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 8% |
| 56% | 58% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 42% | 48% |
| 20% | 25% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 17% | 16% |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 50% | 44% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3 | 2.7 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 2.7 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 189 | 93 | 29 | Total Shots | T S | 13 | 88 | 191 |
| 70 | 36 | 12 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 36 | 78 |
| 33% | 36% | 58% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 28% | 29% |
- Ljungskile has the fewest points from losing position (3) in Superettan
- Ljungskile has the most conceded goals (45) in Superettan
- Ljungskile has the most conceded goals in the second half (29) in Superettan
- Ljungskile has the the worst goal difference (-22) in Superettan
- Umeå has the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Superettan
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Degerfors | 25 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 54 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 24 | 10 | 34 | 54 |
| 2 | Halmstad | 25 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 43 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 27 | 53 |
| 3 | Jonkopings Sodra | 25 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 46 | 31 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 22 | 15 | 48 |
| 4 | Oster | 25 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 37 | 29 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 45 |
| 5 | GIF Sundsvall | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 44 | 37 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 19 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 7 | 37 |
| 6 | Akropolis | 25 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 37 | 33 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 37 |
| 7 | Brage | 25 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 31 | 35 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 19 | -4 | 33 |
| 8 | Västerås SK | 25 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 32 | 39 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 22 | -7 | 29 |
| 9 | Orgryte | 25 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 29 | 36 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 19 | -7 | 29 |
| 10 | GAIS | 25 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 25 | 37 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 25 | -12 | 29 |
| 11 | Dalkurd | 25 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 32 | 33 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 20 | -1 | 28 |
| 12 | Norrby | 25 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 30 | 35 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 19 | -5 | 28 |
| 13 | AFC Eskilstuna | 25 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 29 | 44 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 25 | -15 | 28 |
| 14 | Trelleborg | 25 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 27 | 32 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 19 | -5 | 26 |
| 15 | Umeå | 25 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 23 | 40 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -17 | 21 |
| 16 | Ljungskile | 25 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 45 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 28 | -22 | 19 |