IK Sirius vs IFK Värnamo Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

IK Sirius

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IK Sirius will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 2-0 Allsvenskan defeat in their last game at the hands of Djurgårdens IF.

In that match, IK Sirius had 53% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target. At the other end, Djurgardens IF got 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. Samuel Leach Holm (16') and Deniz Hümmet (72') scored for Djurgårdens IF.

Over their past 6 fixtures, Christer Mattiasson's IK Sirius have hit the target 9 times, with that being an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.5.

Pre-game facts show that IK Sirius:

• haven't been beaten in the league by IFK Värnamo in their previous 2 matches.
• are undefeated in their last 5 home league matches.

IFK Värnamo

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Malmö FF in Allsvenskan action, IFK Värnamo will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, IFK Värnamo had 34% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 0 on target. Malmo FF had 14 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Isaac Kiese Thelin (6'), Derek Cornelius (33'), Sebastian Nanasi (51') and Erik Botheim (78') scored for Malmö FF.

Anes Mravac's IFK Värnamo have seen their goal attempts be successful 6 times throughout their previous sextet of matches. The number of goals that have been scored against them during those matches equals 9.

Ahead of this clash, IFK Värnamo have not won away from home in their last 2 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 24/04/2016 tells us that IK Sirius have won 3 of these games and IFK Värnamo 1, with the number of drawn results being 2.

A combined total of 10 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 7 from Blåsvart and 3 for Värnamo. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.67.

The previous league match featuring the two was Allsvenskan match day 24 on 25/09/2023 when it finished IFK Värnamo 0-1 IK Sirius.

That time, IFK Värnamo managed 60% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

At the other end, IK Sirius had 13 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Tashreeq Matthews (92') scored.

The referee was Adi Aganovic.

🗞️ Team News: IK Sirius

The IK Sirius manager Christer Mattiasson doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game owing to a completely healthy group available to choose from.

It seems likely that Blåsvart should use a 4-2-3-1 system for the game and select David Mitov Nilsson, J. V. Persson, Henrik Castegren, Malcom Jeng, Dennis Widgren, Daniel Stensson, Leo Walta, Noel Milleskog, Melker Heier, Joakim Persson and Yousef Salech.

🗞️ Team News: IFK Värnamo

With a completely healthy group available to choose from, the IFK Värnamo manager Anes Mravac does not have any fitness concerns to report coming into this match.

There’s a good chance that IFK Värnamo will likely elect for a 4-4-2 lineup, starting Viktor Andersson, Victor Larsson, Johan Rapp, Hampus Näsström, Viktor Bergh, Marco Bustos, Wenderson, William Kenndal, Simon Thern, Gustav Engvall and Ajdin Zeljkovic.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that in this game, IK Sirius have it within them to see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

In contrast, IFK Värnamo are also probably going to find it difficult to make a breakthrough but we can see them seeing enough of the ball to score, too.

We’re therefore expecting to see a 3-1 win for IK Sirius come full-time.

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

Renata Leite, 23:49 19/04/2024