Match Report
23 points for Vålerenga (12th), 28 for Fredrikstad (8th): a 5-point gap. Per game in the league, Vålerenga were scoring 1.62 and conceding 2.05, Fredrikstad 1.19 and 1.52, against a competition average of 1.58 goals per team per game.
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 was played at Intility Arena (capacity 3,000). The referee was S. Kringstad, with 55 matches in our database and 1.9 yellows per game on average. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-1.
Goal scorers
Vålerenga: Sebastian Jarl (76') · Fredrikstad: Solomon Owusu (52')
Key stats
Possession: Vålerenga 48% · Fredrikstad 52% · Total shots: 16-9 · On target: 3-2 · Corners: 9-6