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Steffen Schmidt - June 29, 2023
Valerenga vs Viking
Norwegian Eliteserien
Date: 1 July 2023, Saturday
Kick-off at 17:00 UK / 18:00 CET
Venue: Intility Arena (Oslo).
Valerenga will be hoping to snap their dreadful three-game losing run in the league on Saturday afternoon when they host Viking in the first match of Gameweek No 12 at Intility Arena.
Enga were successful on Wednesday in NM Cupen, storming past lower-division Stjordals-Blink 0-5 on the road to advance to the fifth round of the competition.
It will be interesting to see whether such a commanding victory can fix the atmosphere in the team’s dressing room after a subpar start to the 2023 season.
Valerenga have big problems with efficiency in the final third this year. They created numerous chances in the previous round against Stromsgodset only to lose the match 0-1 at the end.
The story is quite opposite with Viking who are super dangerous up front. Viking had been on a three-game winning thread across competitions before falling to lower-division Raufoss in mid-week’s NM Cupen tie on penalties after a crazy 4-4 draw.
Viking play ultra-attacking football this season under Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim and Morten Jensen. Each of the last five matches they played across competitions has thus seen the Over 2.5 goals FT & Both Teams To Score option coming in.
This match has goals in it and we will take the Over 2.5 goals FT & Both Teams To Score pick as the main betting option at the odds of 1.80. Viking just can’t defend and they’ve proved it best three days ago in the cup clash against Raufoss, playing a 4-4 draw on the occasion.
Valerenga desperately need a win to shift their fortunes around in the top flight of Norwegian football and we believe they get one against this Viking defense. We’ll take the home victory at the 2.30 odds.
