Perhaps a welcome break from league football as IFK Hässleholm & Halmstad face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Svenska Cupen. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's no vacation for neither IFK Hässleholm nor Halmstad as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
IFK Hässleholm form and stats
Action has already taken place for Hässleholm in Svenska Cupen as they have defeated Laholm to reach the 2nd Round.A good away victory last time out for IFK Hässleholm, who won 4-3 against Rappe. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
Previous to that game, a Division 2: Ostra Gotaland home match hosting Karlskrona in a game that was won 3-2.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as VMA are coming to town in four days.
Halmstad form and stats
Last season their Svenska Cupen adventure ended in the group stage.4-1-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Halmstad in their Allsvenskan matches away.
There might be some fixture complaints from Halmstad as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, 1-3 against Brommapojkarna. Baffo, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.14. Baffo hit one key pass and won 3 of 5 duels.
Preceding that, the 1-3 home loss versus Norrköping.Halmstad have another match away from home in just four nights, a Allsvenskan game versus Varnamo. A hard itinerary for the visiting team!
Halmstad are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 11 away goals from 10 games (in the league).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  V. Granat 6 goals | E. Ahlstrand 3 goals | N. Mohammed 3 goals |
IFK Hässleholm missing players
Halmstad missing players
| IFK Hässleholm | Halmstad | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Lost | L | 7 | 13 | ||
| 39 | 18 | Scored | S | 12 | 24 | ||
| 44 | 22 | Conceded | C | 28 | 48 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 80% | ||
| 56% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 64% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 60% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 48% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 24% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 40% | ||
| 2.9 | 2.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 3.8 | ||
| 3.5 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.9 | 5.2 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 8 | 8.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.4 | 8.8 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3 | ||
| 46% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 32% | ||
| 8.7 | 7.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.3 | 14 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Elfsborg | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 28 | 45 |
| 2 | Häcken | 20 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 50 | 22 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 28 | 44 |
| 3 | Malmö FF | 20 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 41 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 25 | 42 |
| 4 | Norrköping | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 34 |
| 5 | Djurgården | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 24 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 3 | 34 |
| 6 | Hammarby | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 25 | 27 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 18 | -2 | 29 |
| 7 | Mjällby | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -1 | 28 |
| 8 | Kalmar | 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -6 | 27 |
| 9 | Brommapojkarna | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 25 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 19 | -6 | 26 |
| 10 | Varnamo | 20 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 22 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 14 | -2 | 25 |
| 11 | Halmstad | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 19 | 34 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 20 | -15 | 25 |
| 12 | Sirius | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 26 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -5 | 20 |
| 13 | Degerfors | 20 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 20 | 43 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 26 | -23 | 20 |
| 14 | IFK Göteborg | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -5 | 19 |
| 15 | AIK | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 26 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | -7 | 19 |
| 16 | Varberg | 20 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 38 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | -22 | 11 |
