Perhaps a welcome break from league football as IK Zenith & IFK Göteborg face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Svenska Cupen. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for IK Zenith and IFK Göteborg.
IK Zenith form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Svenska Cupen for Zenith, as the manager Olsson led his troops to eliminate Oddevold, and reach the 2nd Round.The home followers saw a 0-0 draw versus Lidköping last time out and are looking for a victory here.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Gauthiod (2-3).There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for IK Zenith as they are travelling to their away game against FBK Karlstad in the Division 2: Norra Gotaland. That match is four days after this one.
IFK Göteborg form and stats
They also participated in Svenska Cupen last season. This ended in the group stage.There's been little loot from IFK Göteborg's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 10 away games in the Allsvenskan. IFK Göteborg only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 4 draws.
Two away games in a row for IFK Göteborg, whose coach Askou could celebrate last time after the win against Degerfors. Salomonsson, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.82. Salomonsson scored one goal and won 4 of 10 duels.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Djurgården in the Allsvenskan.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Häcken in just four days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Göteborg as they have only managed to score 6 times from 10 away games in the league. IFK Göteborg's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 16 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Berg 5 goals |  S. Ohlsson 4 goals | A. Carlén 3 goals |
IK Zenith missing players
IFK Göteborg missing players
| IK Zenith | IFK Göteborg | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 18 | 9 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | ||
| 10 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 11 | ||
| 21 | 11 | Scored | S | 12 | 28 | ||
| 35 | 15 | Conceded | C | 19 | 33 | ||
| 94% | 89% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 88% | ||
| 72% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 68% | ||
| 50% | 56% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 46% | 44% | ||
| 33% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 24% | ||
| 33% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 16% | ||
| 56% | 56% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 44% | ||
| 22% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 24% | ||
| 28% | 22% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 44% | ||
| 3.2 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.6 | ||
| 4.1 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5.4 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 5.9 | 8.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.8 | 10.4 | ||
| 2.6 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 4.2 | ||
| 46% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 27% | ||
| 10.5 | 12.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 13.5 | ||
| 5.1 | 5.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.5 | ||
| 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 |
