📏 Form Guide

Viking FK

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Viking FK will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 1-4 Eliteserien victory vs FK Haugesund.

In that match, Viking FK had 63% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Viking FK, the scorers were Peter Buch Christiansen (35', 45') and Hilmir Rafn Mikaelsson (89'). Haugesund had 6 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Sory Ibrahim Diarra (79') and Mikkel Fischer (97' Own goal) scored for FK Haugesund.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Viking FK have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Viking FK have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 9 goals along the way.

A look at their previous results shows us that Viking FK:

• are unbeaten in the league by Sandefjord in their last 5 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 15 home league matches. It really has been a fortress.

Sandefjord

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Sandefjord head into the match following on from a 2-1 Eliteserien win with the defeat of Vålerenga in their most recent fixture.

In that match, Sandefjord had 59% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For Sandefjord, the goals were scored by Stefán Ingi Sigurðarson (34') and Marcus Melchior (77'). Valerenga got 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Fidel Ambina (40') scored for Vålerenga.

Over the course of their last 6 clashes, Sandefjord have helped themselves to a total of 10 goals. Sandefjord have also scored in every single one of those games. Over that period, they have had 7 goals go into their own net. That sort of trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, of course.

Going into this contest, Sandefjord have not beaten Viking FK when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 19/06/2022 tells us that Viking FK have won 4 of these and Sandefjord 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 25 overall at an average of 4.17 goals per match.

The last league clash between these clubs was Eliteserien match day 27 on 02/11/2024 which ended up with the score at Viking FK 3-2 Sandefjord.

That time, Viking FK managed 48% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Lars-Jørgen Salvesen (27', 43', 65').

Sandefjord had 8 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Jakob Dunsby (7') and Loris Mettler (24') scored.

The referee was Espen Eskås.

🗞️ Team News: Viking FK

Gianni Stensness (Knee injury) and Nick D'Agostino (Ankle injury) are not available for Viking FK boss Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim.

In our view, De mørkeblå will probably use a 4-1-4-1 system in the match featuring Kristoffer Klaesson, Henrik Heggheim, Anders Baertelsen, Henrik Falchener, Jost Urbancic, Joe Bell, Edvin Austboe, Christian Cappis, Jakob Segadal Hansen, Sander Svendsen and Peter Christiansen.

🗞️ Team News: Sandefjord

We’re of the thinking that Guttane might utilise a 4-3-3 lineup using Elias Hadaya, F. Loftesnes-Bjune, Martin Gjone, Stian Kristiansen, Christopher Cheng, Loris Mettler, Filip Ottosson, Marcus Melchior, Evangelos Patoulidis, S. Ingi Sigurdarson and Jakob Masloe Dunsby.

💭 Prediction

One thing is for certain, Sandefjord will do well to get a goal against a Viking FK lineup who should get a big win and also probable clean sheet.

We think that it’s going to be a very comfortable 3-0 margin for Viking FK at full-time.

Peter Guest, 15:05 16/05/2025