Can Värnamo beat Öster in Finnvedsvallen clash?

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Competition: Sweden Superettan
Competition: Sat 17.July
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Finnvedsvallen (5000 seats)

Getting closer to the top teams is at stake when these two mid-table clubs battle it out. Both will be aiming to improve their league table standing, Värnamo in 6th and Öster in 7th place.

Insights:
  • Värnamo have the most clean sheets (6) in Superettan
  • Öster have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Superettan

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Värnamo form and stats

When playing at home in the Superettan, Värnamo, who have the most clean sheets (6) in Superettan, have managed 4 wins, 0 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 5 games.

Värnamo are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 358 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by E. Becirovic).

The fans are hoping that Värnamo will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Superettan game against Norrby (placed 3rd).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Norrby (0-2).

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

Värnamo are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 5 games. Värnamo have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.

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Öster form and stats

As the visiting team in Superettan matches, Öster have produced an overall stat of 2-1-2 so far.

272 minutes! That's how long the Öster goalkeeper Mattias Nilsson and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Öster are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the Superettan against AFC Eskilstuna (placed 11th).

Before that, Öster secured a home win against AFC Eskilstuna with the score 2-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Öster in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Öster, one draw and four defeats.

The visitors have scored 4 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Öster are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 4 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: four wins for Värnamo, three draws and three wins for Öster. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

ÖsterN. Mortensen
N. Mortensen
3 goals
VärnamoR. Dzabic
R. Dzabic
2 goals
VärnamoE. Becirovic
E. Becirovic
2 goals

Värnamo missing players

Öster missing players

Värnamo Öster
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 3 5 11
5 4 1 Won W 1 2 4
2 0 0 Drew D 1 1 3
3 1 0 Lost L 1 2 4
8 5 1 Scored S 3 4 10
6 2 0 Conceded C 3 4 10
80% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 80% 82%
40% 20% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 20% 55%
20% 20% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 20% 27%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 20% 9%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 20% 9%
10% 20% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 20% 36%
60% 60% 100% Clean Sheets C S 67% 60% 45%
50% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 40% 36%
 
6.8 6.4 10 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 4.8 5.1
4.5 4.4 6 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.8 4.5
1.9 2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2 2.4
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.8 7.6 1 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 9.2 9.7
4 2.8 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.7 4.2 3.6
20% 36% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 18% 19% 25%
Key stats in Superettan this season:
  • Värnamo have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Värnamo have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Superettan
  • Värnamo have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Superettan
  • Värnamo have the most clean sheets (6) in Superettan
  • Värnamo haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Öster have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Superettan
  • Öster have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) 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 Landskrona 11 6 4 1 18 10 6 4 2 0 9 4 5 2 2 1 9 6 8 22
2 GIF Sundsvall 11 6 2 3 17 10 6 4 1 1 11 6 5 2 1 2 6 4 7 20
3 Norrby 11 6 2 3 13 9 5 3 1 1 7 4 6 3 1 2 6 5 4 20
4 Trelleborg 11 5 4 2 16 13 6 3 2 1 7 5 5 2 2 1 9 8 3 19
5 Jonkopings Sodra 11 5 3 3 17 10 6 4 2 0 14 4 5 1 1 3 3 6 7 18
6 Värnamo 10 5 2 3 8 6 5 4 0 1 5 2 5 1 2 2 3 4 2 17
7 Öster 11 4 3 4 10 10 6 2 2 2 6 6 5 2 1 2 4 4 0 15
8 Västerås SK 11 3 5 3 9 9 6 2 4 0 6 4 5 1 1 3 3 5 0 14
9 GAIS 11 4 1 6 10 13 5 2 0 3 7 9 6 2 1 3 3 4 -3 13
10 Helsingborg 8 3 3 2 8 6 4 2 0 2 5 4 4 1 3 0 3 2 2 12
11 AFC Eskilstuna 11 3 3 5 9 10 5 3 2 0 8 3 6 0 1 5 1 7 -1 12
12 Orgryte 11 2 5 4 10 14 5 0 3 2 1 4 6 2 2 2 9 10 -4 11
13 Vasalund 10 3 1 6 13 19 5 2 1 2 4 6 5 1 0 4 9 13 -6 10
14 Akropolis 10 2 4 4 9 15 5 2 2 1 6 5 5 0 2 3 3 10 -6 10
15 Falkenberg 11 3 1 7 10 18 5 2 0 3 5 10 6 1 1 4 5 8 -8 10
16 Brage 11 2 3 6 9 14 5 1 1 3 3 6 6 1 2 3 6 8 -5 9

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.