Vikingur Reykjavik vs Malmö FF Preview 12/07/2022

Vikingur Reykjavik vs Malmö FF – 12/07/2022

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Víkingur Reykjavík of Iceland will welcome Sweden’s Malmo to the Víkingsvöllur as they give the impression of being to overturn a 3-2 defeat within the first leg of the Champions League first spherical qualifiers after such an exciting encounter within the first 90 minutes.

Martin Olsson bought the sport off to a flying begin with a objective inside 16 minutes on the Eleda Stadion, earlier than Vikingur requalised by means of Kristall Mani Ingason. Ola Toivonen introduced Malmo again in entrance, and a 3rd objective of the day for the Swedish giants noticed them go 3-1 in entrance after Veijko Birmancevic’s well-taken objective.

Nevertheless, Vikingur have given themselves a combating probability to get into the second spherical of qualifying with Helgi Guojonsson scoring within the dying seconds of the sport with them now needing to overturn a 3-2 deficit.

It may develop into a large objective, however the Icelandic facet can be with out their goalscorer, Ingason, as he was despatched off stunningly only one minute after scoring the equaliser for Vikingur.

Each side are reaching the midway stage of their home leagues heading into this one, and every come into this fixture with some extent to show as they path prime spot of their home battles.

Vikingur are presently six factors behind Breioablik within the Icelandic prime flight, with them having received a formidable eight video games from 12 fixtures, registering simply three defeats alongside the way in which and scoring a commendable 28 objectives with simply 18 conceded.

Then again, with them defending the Urvalsdelid this season after beating Breiodablik to the title by some extent final season, they continue to be in want of an enchancment of their type heading into this one and the remainder of the home season.

Malmo, nevertheless, are sitting down in fourth within the Allsvenskan with a four-point hole to make up on Hacken within the league.

What’s extra, they too are defending their very own league title this season, however with 17 objectives scored and 12 conceded being the third-lowest objectives distinction inside the highest 10 of the Allsvenskan, there’s hope that Vikingur can turnaround their one-goal deficit, though it is necessary to do not forget that their two away objectives don’t depend as away objectives within the outdated format.

Malmo did additionally rating three objectives as soon as once more over the weekend, as they beat Varbergs BoIS 3-0 on residence soil, and they’re getting into this recreation in glorious type as soon as extra.

Forebet predicts a win for Malmö FF and for the sport to see over 2.5 objectives.