Perhaps a welcome break from league football as GAIS & Värnamo face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Svenska Cupen. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
GAIS form and stats
Action has already taken place for GAIS in Svenska Cupen as they have defeated Lindome to reach the 2nd Round. Last season, GAIS's Svenska Cupen journey ended in the group stage.The home followers saw a 1-1 draw versus Trollhattan last time out and are looking for a victory here.
A Division 1: South defeat was the result before that one, 2-4 away at Torns.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for GAIS as they are travelling to their away game against Oskarshamns AIK in the Division 1: South. That match is four days after this one.
Värnamo form and stats
They also participated in Svenska Cupen last season. This ended in the group stage.There's been little loot from Värnamo's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 11 away games in the Allsvenskan. Värnamo only have 2 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 2 draws.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Värnamo, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-4 versus Häcken. Värnamo keeper Vojtekhnovich took pride in a top-notch shift vs Häcken, but in spite of pulling off seven saves the defeat could not be stopped. Midfield player Wenderson was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.3/10. Wenderson hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times and had 45 successful passes (of 47 total).
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Elfsborg in the Allsvenskan.The visiting Värnamo have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 12 goals from 11 games. The Värnamo manager Hellberg has some worries about the defense as 26 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The 4 latest meetings featuring these opponents have all finished as Värnamo victories. Surely both teams are aware of this.Top Goalscorers
  M. Antonsson 12 goals |   M. Kargbo 9 goals |  A. Henriksson 7 goals |
GAIS missing players
Värnamo missing players
| GAIS | Värnamo | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 7 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 9 | 12 | ||
| 45 | 27 | Scored | S | 15 | 25 | ||
| 22 | 7 | Conceded | C | 32 | 41 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 72% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 93% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 71% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 43% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 20% | ||
| 44% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 56% | ||
| 52% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 32% | ||
| 6 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.1 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.4 | ||
| 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.4 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 10.3 | ||
| 5.2 | 6.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.3 | ||
| 35% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 30% | ||
| 7.1 | 6.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.6 | 14.5 | ||
| 3 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.2 | 5.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Häcken | 20 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 48 | 26 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 13 | 22 | 44 |
| 2 | Djurgården | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 42 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 26 | 41 |
| 3 | Hammarby | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 42 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 26 | 40 |
| 4 | AIK | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 32 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 6 | 36 |
| 5 | Malmö FF | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 34 |
| 6 | IFK Göteborg | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 26 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 33 |
| 7 | Kalmar | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 33 |
| 8 | Mjallby | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 31 |
| 9 | Sirius | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 28 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 19 | -8 | 25 |
| 10 | Elfsborg | 20 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 34 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 24 |
| 11 | Norrköping | 20 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 22 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -5 | 21 |
| 12 | Varberg | 20 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -16 | 21 |
| 13 | Värnamo | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 26 | -13 | 19 |
| 14 | Degerfors | 20 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 41 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 24 | -23 | 15 |
| 15 | Helsingborg | 20 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 30 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -16 | 14 |
| 16 | GIF Sundsvall | 20 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 19 | 51 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 26 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 25 | -32 | 10 |
