Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Egersund (1st, 62 pts) held a 39-point advantage over Aalesund II (14th, 23 pts). Aalesund II had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 8th in the league over the last five rounds against 14th overall. Per game in the league, Egersund were scoring 2.81 and conceding 0.81, Aalesund II 1.12 and 1.85, against a competition average of 1.58 goals per team per game.
Aalesund II had been beaten in four straight games. The five-game form split read 10/15 points for Egersund against 3/15 for Aalesund II.
The venue was Egersund Idrettsparken in Egersund, with room for 1,924 spectators. With 27 matches recorded and 1.9 yellow cards per game, J. Mertens was the man in the middle. Egersund led 3-0 at the break, and the second half added 3 goals for the 5-1 full-time score.