National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Häcken or Elfsborg that keep their silverware dream alive.
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.
Häcken's stadium, Bravida Arena, has a grass surface. Elfsborg have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Elfsborg when playing on grass; 7 wins, 4 draws and 12 losses from 23 matches. They have scored 28 goals in these games and conceded 47.
Häcken form and stats
Häcken have collected 1 point from their Allsvenskan home games so far after 0-1-0. On the other hand, in the Svenska Cupen, Häcken has performed like this (both home and away): 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. The last three games played by Häcken, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.
Häcken travelled for their previous game, a trip to Sirius that ended 2-2. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a Allsvenskan home game that ended 1-1 versus Malmö FF.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Häcken have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won three times, drawn zero and lost three.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Häcken as they have a new game in only four days, a Allsvenskan match thankfully also at home. Helsingborg are visiting.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Häcken at home in the league. 1 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Elfsborg form and stats
Elfsborg's mission in Svenska Cupen last season failed in the group stage.Four points from two away games for Elfsborg, meaning one draw and one victory in the Allsvenskan so far. Total Svenska Cupen statistics for Elfsborg: 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Norrköping game have they lost an away game, meaning Elfsborg has taken points from seven away matches in a row.
Elfsborg are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Helsingborg. Preceding that match was the 2-2 draw at home vs Hammarby.
Elfsborg are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and two defeats. From a total of five matches.
After this away game Elfsborg return home for a Allsvenskan game against Örebro. That game is only three sleeps after this.
1 goal so far away for Elfsborg, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 0. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Häcken won five games, one match ended with a draw and Elfsborg has four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  D. Irandust 2 goals |   P. Frick 2 goals |  J. Toivio 1 goals |
Häcken missing players
Elfsborg missing players
| Häcken | Elfsborg | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 12 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 5 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | ||
| 46 | 28 | Scored | S | 16 | 41 | ||
| 28 | 13 | Conceded | C | 13 | 24 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 92% | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 76% | ||
| 52% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 56% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | ||
| 6 | 6.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.6 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4.1 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.5 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 378 | 193 | Total Shots | T S | 159 | 332 | ||
| 153 | 84 | Shots on Target | S O | 53 | 120 | ||
| 30% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 34% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Norrköping | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 9 |
| 2 | Kalmar | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 3 | AIK | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Malmö FF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Elfsborg | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | Varberg | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Hammarby | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | IFK Göteborg | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | Sirius | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | Falkenberg | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -1 | 4 |
| 11 | Örebro | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -1 | 4 |
| 12 | Häcken | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Djurgården | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 3 |
| 14 | Mjällby | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 1 |
| 15 | Östersunds FK | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -4 | 1 |
| 16 | Helsingborg | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -7 | 1 |
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