IK Sirius vs Halmstads BK Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

IK Sirius

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IK Sirius will be hoping to bounce back here after a 3-0 Allsvenskan loss in their previous game against Mjällby AIF.

In that match, IK Sirius had 58% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 on target. On the other side, Mjällby AIF had 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Herman Johansson (29'), Ivan Kričak (37') and Colin Rösler (41') scored for Mjällby AIF.

Matches featuring IK Sirius have proved to be lively ones lately with plenty of scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past six clashes alone, the sum total of 21 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 7 of them coming from IK Sirius.

Coming into this contest, IK Sirius are without a home win in the past 5 matches in the league. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Halmstads BK

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Malmö FF in Allsvenskan competition, Halmstads BK will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Halmstads BK managed 25% possession and 3 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. Malmö FF got 21 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Patriot Sejdiu (96') was the scorer for Malmö FF.

In 5 of the past six clashes involving Halmstads BK, a relatively low number of goals have gone in between them and their opposition. The overall average number of goals per game within that period works out to a paltry 2.5, with the average goals for HBK standing at 0.67. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, however.

Ahead of this meeting, Halmstads BK are without a win away from home in their last 8 league matches. A poor run.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 24/10/2016 tells us that IK Sirius have won 4 of these games and Halmstads BK 1, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

13 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 9 of them for Blåsvart and 4 being from HBK. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The last league game featuring the two was Allsvenskan match day 21 on 27/09/2021 which finished with the scoreline of Halmstads BK 1-1 IK Sirius.

In that match, Halmstads BK managed 39% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The scorer was Sadat Karim (12').

IK Sirius got 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. Christian Kouakou (92') was the scorer.

The referee was Granit Maqedonci.

📋 Team News: IK Sirius

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just a single fitness concern for the IK Sirius gaffer Christer Mattiasson to contend with thanks to an almost full-strength group. Andreas Murbeck (Knee Injury) won’t play.

In all likelihood, Blåsvart should opt for a 4-3-3 formation this time featuring Jakob Taannander, Aron Bjarnason, Marcus Mathisen, J. V. Persson, Dennis Widgren, Adam Wikman, Jamie Roche, Daniel Stensson, Joakim Persson, Melker Heier and Magnus Kaastrup.

📋 Team News: Halmstads BK

Due to a fully injury-free squad available to select from, the Halmstads BK manager Magnus Haglund doesn’t have any fitness worries to report coming into this match.

We believe HBK seem likely to make use of a 4-4-2 system, going with Malkolm Nilsson, Phil Ofosu-Ayeh, Andreas Johansson, Joseph Baffo, Marcus Olsson, Kazper Karlsson, Jonathan Svedberg, Amir Al-Ammari, Thomas Boakye, Erik Ahlstrand and Viktor Granath.

✨ Prediction

In this game, IK Sirius should convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

At the other end, Halmstads BK will be up against it to get a goal of their own but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be pulling one back during this clash.

We can therefore see a pretty comfortable 3-1 winning score for IK Sirius come full-time.

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

Andre Moura, 00:58 17/05/2023