Odense BK vs Esbjerg Prediction & Betting Tips

Esbjerg arrive at Nature Energy Park on Sunday for the Superliga game with home team Odense BK. View all of the Odense BK v Esbjerg predictions, poll and stats below - along with the latest match odds.

📏 Form Guide

Odense BK LLDDDL

Odense BK will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 1-0 Superliga loss in their previous game against AGF Aarhus. Nicklas Helenius (78') was the scorer for AGF Aarhus.

Odense BK have really been misfiring in more recent games. Their goals record stands at just 3 vs opposing sides over the course of their last six outings. In those games, De Stribede have also seen the tally of goals scored against them come to 7.

Leading up to this clash, Odense BK:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Esbjerg in their previous 2 matches.
• are without a win at home for the past 4 matches in the league. Their fans aren't happy.

Esbjerg WLLLDD

In their last fixture, Esbjerg drew 1-1 in the Superliga match with Aalborg BK. The only scorer from Esbjerg was Yuriy Yakovenko (67'). Søren Tengstedt (83') scored for Aalborg BK.

The stats don’t lie, and Esbjerg have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 10 goals in total. Defensively, Esbjerg can certainly do much better. Let’s find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Coming into this fixture, Esbjerg are without an away win for the past 4 league games.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 08/05/2017 tells us that Odense BK have won 3 of them and Esbjerg 1, with the tally of drawn games being 2.

13 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 of them from De Stribede and 5 netted by Esbjerg. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.

The last league contest featuring these sides was Superliga match day 4 on 04/08/2019 which ended up with the score at Esbjerg 0-1 Odense BK. The referee was Benjamin Willaume-Jantzen.

🗞️ Team News: Odense BK

Jørgen Skjellvik (Unknown), Janus Drachmann (Unknown) and Alexander Juel Andersen (Unknown) won’t be able to feature for Odense boss Jakob Michelsen.

It looks as if De Stribede look set to go for a 4-4-2 formation for this game featuring Oliver Christensen, Jacob Barrett Laursen, Kasper Larsen, Marco Lund, Oliver Lund, Mads Frøkjær-Jensen, Jens Jakob Thomasen, Troels Klove, Aron Elis Thrandarson, Sander Svendsen and Mart Lieder.

📋 Team News: Esbjerg

We are inclined to think that Esbjerg seem most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup, giving starts to Vito Mannone, Daniel Anyembe, Rodolph Austin, Søren Reese, Kevin Conboy, Jakob Sörensen, Lasha Parunashvili, Rafal Kurzawa, Mads Larsen, Dauda Mohammed and Yuriy Yakovenko.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Esbjerg might well have a job on their hands to break down this Odense BK team who we reckon should emerge victorious. We’ve gone for a very competitive game with a 1-0 winning margin for Odense BK at the end of this game. It should be a good one.

Peter Guest, 23:05 02/06/2020