📊 Form Guide

Hammarby IF

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Hammarby IF will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 2-1 Allsvenskan losing effort in their last game against Halmstads BK.

In that match, Hammarby IF had 75% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Hammarby IF was Tesfaldet Tekie (90'). Halmstads BK had 9 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Naeem Mohammed (45') and Jonathan Svedberg (52') scored for Halmstads BK.

It’s not been often in recent times that Hammarby IF have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Hammarby IF have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 7 goals on the way. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see if that trend might persist in this game.

Coming into this meeting, Hammarby IF are undefeated in their last 6 home league matches.

Västerås SK

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Västerås SK will come into the clash following on from a 2-1 Allsvenskan win with the defeat of Mjällby AIF in their most recent game.

In that match, Västerås SK managed 54% possession and 12 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. For Västerås SK, the goals were scored by Henry Offia (34') and Ibrahim Diabate (76'). For their opponents, Mjallby AIF had 10 shots on goal with 3 on target. Jacob Bergström (17') was the scorer for Mjällby AIF.

A tendency of at least one team not managing to score in games involving Västerås SK has been noticeable of late. Checking on their last six games reveals that it has occurred 5 times. During those clashes, their opponents have hit a goal total of 7 while Västerås SK have scored 1.

Heading into this fixture, Västerås SK haven’t won away from home in the past 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

The last league encounter featuring these sides was Svenska Cupen match day 1 on 17/02/2024 and the score finished Hammarby IF 1-2 Västerås SK.

The match was refereed by Richard Sundell.

🗞️ Team News: Hammarby IF

Looking at personnel, there is just a single fitness concern for the Hammarby IF boss Kim Hellberg to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust squad. Frederik Winther (Knee injury) won’t play.

In all likelihood, Bajen will probably line up in a 4-3-3 formation for this game, handing starts to Oliver Dovin, Markus Karlsson, Edvin Kurtulus, Shaquille Pinas, Marc Llinares, Fredrik Hammar, Oscar Johansson, Nahir Besara, Montader Madjed, Viktor Djukanovic and Deniz Gül.

📰 Team News: Västerås SK

Owing to a completely healthy group available for selection, the Västerås SK manager Kalle Karlsson has zero fitness concerns at all coming into this game.

It’s our belief that Västerås SK appear most likely to begin the game with a 3-4-3 lineup, going with Johan Brattberg, Herman Magnusson, F. Nsabiyumva, Alex Douglas, Simon Gefvert, Pedro Ribeiro, Patric Aslund, Max Larsson, Simon Johansson, Jabir Abdihakim Ali and Henry Offia.

🔮 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Hammarby IF will probably convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

At the other end, Västerås SK will not find it easy to make a breakthrough but we do think it’s quite likely that they will be scoring here.

Therefore, we are anticipating a decent 3-1 victory for Hammarby IF at the end of this one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 17:05 29/04/2024