Norrby vs Brage match preview: Even contest expected at Borås Arena

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Competition: Sweden Superettan
Competition: Tue 09.August
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Borås Arena (17800 seats)

The guesting Brage team are probably odds-on favourites at Norrby, as the away side have a 14 point edge from their 17 league fixtures this season.

Insights:
  • Norrby have the fewest scored goals (8) at home in Superettan
  • Brage have the fewest conceded goals (16) in Superettan

This football stadium has artifical turf, which is not Brage's familiar surface at their own field. When appearing on artifical turf Brage have performed like this: Played 13 matches with the output 6 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats with the goal stats 25-15 (scored/conceded).

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.

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Norrby form and stats

The story so far in the Superettan for Norrby, who have the fewest scored goals (8) at home in Superettan, at their home stadium (Borås Arena) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Norrby drew their last game, also a home match. Brage (placed 2nd) was the opponent, 1-1 the score.

Prior to that, an away loss at Dalkurd.

This is expected to be a close game, with Norrby perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Norrby as a small favourite), we find 11 games. Norrby has won 6 of these, drawn 2 and lost 3.

Betting people might want to know that 9 of the latest 12 league games from this football club have had at least one goal from each team.

Norrby have scored 8 league goals here from 9 matches, not a lot. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches.

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Brage form and stats

4-3-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Brage, who have the fewest conceded goals (16) in Superettan, in their Superettan matches away.

Brage has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Norrby for a 1-1 draw.

A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Östersunds FK.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Brage playing away and similar expectations, we found 15 relevant matches. Results were 5 Brage wins, 4 draws and 6 defeats.

Observe! Both teams have scored goal(s) in 8 of this club's latest 10 league fixtures.

Brage are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 8 away games so far. 9 goals have been conceded by Brage in these games.

Head 2 Head

The two combatants have met before this season: Brage - Norrby 2-1. Norrby-Brage H2H statistics last nine meetings regardless of arena: Norrby three wins, Brage four wins, two draws. six of these nine matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

NorrbyA. Wede
A. Wede
6 goals
BrageJ. Persson
J. Persson
5 goals
BrageD. Karlberg
D. Karlberg
4 goals

Norrby missing players

Brage missing players

Norrby Brage
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 10 0 Played P 2 9 18
5 3 0 Won W 2 4 9
4 4 0 Drew D 0 4 6
9 3 0 Lost L 0 1 3
18 9 0 Scored S 6 16 32
27 10 0 Conceded C 2 10 17
94% 90% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
83% 70% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 83%
39% 10% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 56% 61%
11% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 44% 33%
11% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
56% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 89% 72%
22% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 22%
28% 30% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 11% 11%
 
7 6.9 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3.1 3.1
3.1 3.2 0 Corners against (avg) C A 6.5 4.7 4.6
2.3 2.4 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.4 1.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
9.7 10.1 0 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 8.9 9.7
3.5 3.6 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.4 3.8
29% 25% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 75% 52% 47%
 
7.2 6.8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 7.5 10.8 10.4
3.4 3.6 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.5 3.4 3.3
Key stats in Superettan this season:
  • Brage have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Brage have the fewest conceded goals (16) in Superettan
  • Brage have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Superettan
  • Brage haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Norrby have created more than twice as many corners as Brage.
  • Norrby have the fewest scored goals (8) at home in Superettan
  • Norrby have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Halmstad 18 13 2 3 41 17 9 7 0 2 20 8 9 6 2 1 21 9 24 41
2 Brage 17 9 5 3 31 16 9 5 2 2 16 7 8 4 3 1 15 9 15 32
3 Brommapojkarna 18 9 5 4 39 27 9 7 2 0 27 11 9 2 3 4 12 16 12 32
4 Öster 17 8 5 4 30 22 8 4 1 3 15 13 9 4 4 1 15 9 8 29
5 Skövde AIK 17 8 5 4 24 21 8 3 3 2 9 8 9 5 2 2 15 13 3 29
6 Trelleborg 17 8 4 5 27 27 9 4 3 2 13 12 8 4 1 3 14 15 0 28
7 AFC Eskilstuna 18 8 3 7 35 29 10 6 1 3 21 13 8 2 2 4 14 16 6 27
8 Utsikten 17 7 3 7 27 25 8 3 3 2 13 10 9 4 0 5 14 15 2 24
9 Örebro 18 7 2 9 19 23 10 5 1 4 12 12 8 2 1 5 7 11 -4 23
10 Landskrona 18 5 6 7 23 30 8 3 3 2 13 13 10 2 3 5 10 17 -7 21
11 Jonkopings Sodra 18 5 4 9 26 32 9 3 1 5 16 17 9 2 3 4 10 15 -6 19
12 Västerås SK 18 4 6 8 23 31 9 2 4 3 13 15 9 2 2 5 10 16 -8 18
13 Norrby 17 5 3 9 17 26 9 3 3 3 8 9 8 2 0 6 9 17 -9 18
14 Dalkurd 18 5 3 10 16 29 9 4 0 5 11 13 9 1 3 5 5 16 -13 18
15 Orgryte 18 3 8 7 23 30 9 1 5 3 12 14 9 2 3 4 11 16 -7 17
16 Östersunds FK 18 2 6 10 14 30 8 2 3 3 9 12 10 0 3 7 5 18 -16 12

Read more about Superettan

Superettan (meaning “the super one” in English) is the second highest league in the Swedish football league pyramid. It runs from April to October and has 16 teams. After a total of 240 fixtures the top two teams in the league table are promoted, while another can promote through a playoff.