📏 Form Guide

Fylkir

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Fylkir will be looking for an improved result here after a 3-4 Úrvalsdeild defeat last time out to KR.

Elmar Bjarnason (23') was the scorer for KR.

Matches with Fylkir have proved to be engaging affairs of late with high scoring expected. Over their past half dozen games alone, the sum total of 31 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 5.17 goals per game) with 17 of these accredited to Fylkir.

Valur

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Valur go into this match after a 2-0 Úrvalsdeild win with the downing of ÍA in their previous fixture.

For Valur, the goals were scored by Patrick Pedersen (38') and Gylfi Þór Sigurðsson (59').

Indicating their bias toward action-packed matches, the back of the net has been hit 25 times in the last 6 games in which Valur have played, making it a mean average of 4.17 goals for each meeting. Opposing teams have hit 10 from this total. Historical results aside, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern will be maintained in this upcoming match.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings going back to 07/08/2019 tells us that these encounters have been pretty painful for Fylkir. They’ve not been able to get themselves any wins whatsoever whereas Valur have managed to find a way, getting wins in 83 per cent of those matches played.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 22 in total at an average of 3.67 goals per meeting.

The last league encounter between the two was Úrvalsdeild match day 14 on 12/07/2023 when it finished Valur 2-1 Fylkir.

ℹ️ Team News: Fylkir

The Fylkir boss Rúnar Sigmundsson will be happy not to have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this game with a completely healthy squad to choose from.

📋 Team News: Valur

Due to a fully healthy group available to select from, the Valur boss Arnar Grétarsson does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that Fylkir have enough to get a goal against this Valur outfit, but a single goal is unlikely to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

Our tip is for both teams to score in a 1-2 win for Valur after 90 minutes. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 19:04 14/04/2024