Fjolnir hosts Vikingur Reykjavik in round 13 of Icelandic Pepsideild. The match will be played on Thursday, July 20th at Fjölnisvöllur (Grafarvogur)
Fjolnir continues its desperate attempts to gain a foothold in the elite. The team's problem is mediocre defense. On the contrary, the attack is in order. It scored in 8 out of 10 rounds of this season and failed to upset only the keepers of Hafnarfjordur and Grotta (both - 0: 3), having delivered a total of 17 shots on their goals (eight on target). In the match with Valur, Fjolnir interrupted its goalless streak at home (1:3), but spent the second half in the minority and managed to score only one goal. The Icelandic championship took a 2-week break, which means that Fjolnir's coach Arnarson had enough time to carry out the correction of mistakes, while his players managed to recover and gain strength. They lost to Kopavogur in the previous round but scored again, although they played away (3:1). Fjolnir is motivated to gain three points because it runs the risk of relegating. The hosts flounder in the basement of the standings and remain the only team in the league without a single victory in their asset.
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Fortunately, Fjolnir can gain a result with Vikingur because its defensive redoubts are far from perfect. In the cup competition, they allowed their goalkeeper to concede already in the first minute (1:2) and left the tournament at the stage of 1/8 finals. The Vikings didn’t manage to keep a clean sheet in 8 out of 10 matches of the championship. Among the top eight, only Akranes concedes more than Gunnløigsson's men do (1.7 goals per game, on average).
If we look at the last five matches in all tournaments, the Vikings took the ball out of their net at least once (in three of them - at least twice). As for the last two away games, they conceded only one goal in each of them (both ended in a 1:1 draw), but it happened already in the 2nd and 14th minutes. That is, the defense of Vikingur often disintegrates instantly. The players are unhappy after the undeserved defeat to Breidablik in the last round (2:4), so they will run in the attack and open up from behind. I think the hosts will manage to score at least once or even more.
Prediction for the match: Fjolnir to score over 1.0 goal
