About Match
21 points for Vålerenga (11th), 26 for Fredrikstad (7th): a 5-point gap. Fredrikstad's recent output outruns their position: 2nd on form over five rounds, 7th in the table. Per game in the league, Vålerenga score 1.72 and conceding 2.11, Fredrikstad 1.22 and 1.56, against a competition average of 1.55 goals per team per game. Vålerenga would climb to 24 points with a win and up to 8th (other results held equal).
Fredrikstad come in having won five on the spin. Over the last five, Vålerenga have taken 4 of 15 points to Fredrikstad's 15.
The head-to-head ledger counts 13 games: 4 Vålerenga wins, 7 for Fredrikstad, 2 draws, at 3.08 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 38% of meetings won. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 69% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 77%. 2 goals per game in the last five meetings marks a drop from the historical 3.08.
The match takes place at Intility Arena in Oslo (capacity 3,000).