📏 Form Guide

Halmstads BK

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Halmstads BK will be hoping to bounce back here after a 3-0 Allsvenskan defeat last time out to Malmö FF.

In that game, Halmstads BK managed 27% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 1 on target. The scorer for Halmstads BK was Aleksander Damnjanovic Nilsson (45' Own goal). Malmo FF had 17 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Anders Christiansen (31') and Isaac Kiese Thelin (63') scored for Malmö FF.

Fixtures involving Halmstads BK have often been absorbing ones lately with plenty of scoring being a real hallmark. Over their past 6 clashes, a total of 20 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 8 of those accredited to Halmstads BK.

Coming into this clash, Halmstads BK have not won against IF Elfsborg in their last 5 league matches.

IF Elfsborg

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IF Elfsborg head into the clash following on from a 4-0 Allsvenskan win against Djurgårdens IF in their previous game.

In that match, IF Elfsborg had 36% possession and 10 shots at goal with 7 on target. For IF Elfsborg, the goals were scored by Frederik Ihler (9', 42', 60') and Besfort Zeneli (56'). Djurgardens IF got 6 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

Proving their penchant for high-scoring matches, the back of the net has been hit 23 times in the previous 6 matches in which IF Elfsborg have taken to the field, yielding a mean average of 3.83 goals for each meeting. Opposing teams have got 8 from this total. Regardless, time will tell whether such a trend will be replicated here in this game or not.

Going into this one, IF Elfsborg haven't been beaten by Halmstads BK when having played them away from home in the previous 4 matches in the league. A very good run of results for them.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 17/05/2021 tells us that Halmstads BK have won 1 of these games and IF Elfsborg 5, with the number of drawn matches being 0.

17 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 from HBK and 13 created by Di Gule . This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The last league match between the two was Allsvenskan match day 22 on 15/09/2024 when the final score was Halmstads BK 0-1 IF Elfsborg.

On that day, Halmstads BK managed 44% possession and 7 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

For their opponents, IF Elfsborg had 12 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Arber Zeneli (3') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Fredrik Klitte.

🗞️ Team News: Halmstads BK

In all likelihood, HBK look set to use a 3-4-3 system in the match, handing starts to Tim Erlandsson, Marcus Olsson, Filip Schyberg, Bleon Kurtulus, Villiam Granath, Joel Allansson, A. Damnjanovic, Gustav Friberg, Naeem Mohammed, Yannick Agnero and Ludvig Arvidsson.

🗞️ Team News: IF Elfsborg

We’re of the thinking that Di Gule could decide to play in a 3-4-3 formation, settling for Simon Eriksson, Sebastian Holmen, Ibrahim Buhari, Terry Yegbe, Simon Hedlund, Besfort Zeneli, Simon Olsson, Niklas Hult, Leo Östman, Frederik Ihler and Ari Sigurpalsson.

💭 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Halmstads BK have the capability to find the net against this IF Elfsborg side, although just one goal is unlikely to be enough to give them the result that they want.

We’ve gone for a 1-2 victory for IF Elfsborg at the end of the 90 minutes.

Victor Martins, 11:03 25/05/2025