📏 Form Guide

Bodo Glimt

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Bodo Glimt will be looking for another win after a 4-0 Eliteserien victory against Rosenborg BK.

In that game, Bodo Glimt had 50% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. For Bodo Glimt, the scorers were Kasper Høgh (4'), Ole Didrik Blomberg (18', 39') and Ulrik Saltnes (52'). At the other end, Rosenborg got 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

Fixtures featuring Bodo Glimt have tended to be lively affairs of late with plenty of scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past six clashes alone, the sum of 20 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 11 of those being chalked up by Bodo Glimt.

Analysis of their past results shows that Bodo Glimt:

• are unbeaten in the league by Viking FK in their previous 2 matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 5 home league matches.

Viking FK

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Viking FK come into this encounter following a 0-1 Eliteserien win vs Kristiansund in their most recent match.

In that game, Viking FK had 43% possession and 8 shots at goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Viking FK was Edvin Austbø (57'). On the other side, Kristiansund had 10 shots at goal with 4 on target.

Viking FK have attacked well in the lead-up to this encounter, having scored 21 times in their previous 6 matches. Having said that, Viking FK can also improve defensively after being scored against in 5 of those same matches. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this game, however.

Going into this encounter, Viking FK have not emerged victorious against Bodo Glimt in away games against them for the last 6 league matches. They really have not been travelling well at all.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 24/04/2022 tells us that Bodo Glimt have won 3 of these games and Viking FK 2, with the number of drawn games being 1.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 25 in total which averages out at 4.17 goals per meeting.

The previous league game between these sides was Eliteserien match day 18 on 10/08/2024 when it ended Viking FK 1-1 Bodo Glimt.

On that day, Viking FK had 45% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Edvin Austbø (89').

At the other end, Bodo Glimt had 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Håkon Evjen (58') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Mohammad Aslam.

🗞️ Team News: Bodo Glimt

In our view, Glimt may well employ a 4-4-2 system for the game with Nikita Haikin, Fredrik Sjoevold, Jostein Gundersen, Haitam Aleesami, F. Andre Bjoerkan, Ole Blomberg, Patrick Berg, Haakon Evjen, Ulrik Saltnes, Kasper Waarts Hoegh and Jens Petter Hauge.

📰 Team News: Viking FK

Viking FK boss Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Gianni Stensness (Knee injury) and Nick D'Agostino (Ankle injury) will miss out on this game.

From our viewpoint, De mørkeblå appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-3-3 system, settling for Arild Oestboe, Henrik Heggheim, Anders Baertelsen, Henrik Falchener, Jost Urbancic, Sander Svendsen, Joe Bell, Jakob Segadal Hansen, Zlatko Tripic, Peter Christiansen and Edvin Austboe.

💡 Prediction

Viking FK will surely be able to put a goal past this Bodo Glimt team, although that might not be enough to avoid a loss.

We reckon that it will be a narrow 2-1 winning margin for Bodo Glimt at the end of the match. Let’s see what happens here.

Victor Martins, 18:02 28/05/2025