📏 Form Guide

Tromsø IL

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Tromsø IL will play in this fixture following a 4-4 Eliteserien drawn match vs Viking FK.

In that game, Tromsø IL managed 39% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Tromsø IL, the scorers were Vegard Erlien (10', 49', 98') and Jens Hjertø-Dahl (55'). Viking had 22 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Henrik Heggheim (53'), Edvin Austbø (57'), Herman Haugen (94') and Martin Roseth (96') scored for Viking FK.

Tromsø IL have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They’ve claimed a sum of 11 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 12. We will find out if that trend will end up being sustained here.

Coming into this clash, Tromsø IL haven't lost in the league to Sandefjord in their previous 7 games.

Sandefjord

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Sandefjord come into this meeting after a 2-0 Eliteserien win to defeat Hamarkameratene in their previous outing.

In that match, Sandefjord had 64% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Sandefjord, goals were scored by Zinedin Smajlović (23') and Stefán Ingi Sigurðarson (48'). Hamarkameratene had 13 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

During their 6 most recent matches, Andreas Tegström's Sandefjord have managed to stick the ball in the net 10 times thus giving them a goals per game average of 1.67.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Sandefjord:

• have not registered a win against Tromsø IL in away games against them for the last 3 matches in the league.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

An inspection of past results between these clubs going back to 26/06/2022 shows that these encounters have been pretty painful for Sandefjord. They’ve not been able to get any wins whatsoever while Tromsø IL have been too good for them, winning in 67 per cent of those matches.

An aggregate of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 11 for Gutan and 3 being from Guttane. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The last league game between the two was Eliteserien match day 23 on 22/09/2024 when the final score was Tromsø IL 3-0 Sandefjord.

On that occasion, Tromsø IL had 39% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Goals were scored by Lasse Nordås (25'), Vegard Erlien (36') and Mamadou Thierno Barry (44').

On the other side, Sandefjord had 10 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

The referee was Daniel Higraff.

📰 Team News: Tromsø IL

We think that Gutan should use the 5-3-2 system for this one, handing starts to Jakob Haugaard, Vetle Skjaervik, Tobias Guddal, Anders Jenssen, Leo Cornic, Yaw Paintsil, Jens Hjertoe-Dahl, R. Y. Jenssen, Kent-Are Antonsen, J. Napoleon Romsaas and V. Oestraat Erlien.

📰 Team News: Sandefjord

It’s our belief that Guttane could decide to make use of a 4-1-4-1 formation, settling for Elias Hadaya, F. Loftesnes-Bjune, Zinedin Smajlovic, Stian Kristiansen, Christopher Cheng, Filip Ottosson, Evangelos Patoulidis, Marcus Melchior, Sander Risan, Jakob Masloe Dunsby and S. Ingi Sigurdarson.

💡 Prediction

In this game, Sandefjord will manage to score a goal against this Tromsø IL outfit, but that might not be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We can see a close game with a 2-1 winning score for Tromsø IL when the full-time whistle blows. We’ll have to see what happens.

Peter Guest, 14:09 04/05/2025