Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Utsikten & Häcken 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 Utsikten nor Häcken 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.
Utsikten's stadium, Ruddalens IP 1, has a artifical turf surface. Häcken have grass 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 Häcken when playing on artifical turf; 7 wins, 8 draws and 5 losses from 20 matches. They have scored 25 goals in these games and conceded 23.
Utsikten form and stats
Utsikten have reached this Svenska Cupen stage through battling and winning against Vastra Frolunda. Utsikten participated in Svenska Cupen the last season, where they reached the group stage.The Utsikten fans got no joy from their last match, a Ettan: South game also here at Ruddalens IP 1: A 1-2 defeat against IFK Malmö.
In the preceding match a 8-1 victory visiting Österlen.The manager B. Orovic will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Lund in only three days.
Häcken form and stats
They also participated in Svenska Cupen last season. This ended in the semi-finals.2 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Häcken playing as the away team in the Allsvenskan this season. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Häcken are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.
Two away games in a row for Häcken, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-3 versus Degerfors in the Allsvenskan. Tobias Carlsson, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.05. Carlsson won 4 of 5 duels. Häcken did not look prepared in the first half against Degerfors and lost the game during the first 45 minutes. They need to evaluate their pre-match routine before this one.
Prior to that match, a home win 5-0 against Östersunds FK in the Allsvenskan.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Häcken manager P. Høgmo as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against AIK.
Häcken find the net regularly in their away games. 8 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Häcken have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  K. Bohm 8 goals | L. Hedlund 8 goals |   A. Jeremejeff 7 goals |
Utsikten missing players
Häcken missing players
| Utsikten | Häcken | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 6 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 46 | 26 | Scored | S | 15 | 39 | ||
| 30 | 18 | Conceded | C | 14 | 27 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 92% | ||
| 76% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 84% | ||
| 64% | 77% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 52% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 20% | ||
| 5.8 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 4.3 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 5 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.2 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 11.9 | 11.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 13 | ||
| 5.6 | 5.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.7 | ||
| 33% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 35% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Malmö FF | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 30 |
| 2 | Djurgården | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 30 |
| 3 | AIK | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 27 |
| 4 | Elfsborg | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 26 |
| 5 | Hammarby | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 23 |
| 6 | Kalmar | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -1 | 21 |
| 7 | Norrköping | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 20 |
| 8 | Häcken | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 19 |
| 9 | IFK Göteborg | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 19 |
| 10 | Halmstad | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 17 |
| 11 | Sirius | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 19 | -10 | 16 |
| 12 | Degerfors | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 | -10 | 15 |
| 13 | Varberg | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -6 | 14 |
| 14 | Örebro | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -16 | 12 |
| 15 | Mjällby | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -7 | 11 |
| 16 | Östersunds FK | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 15 | -9 | 9 |