Elfsborg vs. Sirius - prediction, team news, lineups

Allsvenskan-leading Sirius question to Boras Arena to instrumentality connected Elfsborg connected Sunday, aiming to widen their unbeaten commencement to the 2026 season.

Andreas Engelmark's broadside are 9 points wide successful the table heading into gameweek 13, and their winning tally against this weekend's hosts encourages them up of different gathering successful Boras.

Match preview

While Elfsborg were already adrift if the ambition was to assertion a seventh league crown, making the qualifying circular of the Conference League was attainable.

Even though Bjorn Hamberg's squad person slipped to seventh aft consecutive losses pursuing the hiatus, they are inactive mathematically successful with a changeable of ending 2nd oregon third.

As it stands, Elfsborg are 5 points down second-placed Hammarby and 2 down Hacken successful third, proving that the Yellow Ones stay successful the speech for the coveted continental spots.

Nevertheless, Hamberg's broadside indispensable find ways to unafraid maximum points successful the league, having won conscionable 1 of their past 9 successful the competition.

Of those nine, 5 person been draws, bringing them to six stalemates this season, the astir successful the full league.

While their 3 defeats from 13 played is lone little than unbeaten Sirius and third-placed Hacken (two), this weekend's hosts person secured conscionable 4 wins successful that period, a tally little than each broadside successful the apical half, highlighting wherefore they are not higher successful the standings.

As such, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot if the division's gully specialists outdo their high-flying opponent, who person outscored the full competition.

Sirius person scored successful each fixture this term, taking their tally for the run to 33, 5 much than second-placed Hammarby, who person played 1 much match, and they person present gone an full twelvemonth without failing to find the backmost of the net.

Goteborg were the past squad to contradict Blasvart successful the Allsvenskan, a 1-0 nonaccomplishment past July, underlining the Uppsala-based club's goalscoring consistency.

Already 9 points wide of 2nd place, supporters tin commencement dreaming of a first-ever top-flight triumph, having ne'er adjacent finished arsenic runners-up.

First, they bid to widen their 12-match unbeaten commencement to the ongoing competition, a content they indispensable person considering they clasp a two-match winning series successful this fixture and 3 successful the past 4 meetings, securing 4-1 and 4-0 wins during that time.

Elfsborg Swedish Allsvenskan form:

Sirius Swedish Allsvenskan form:

Team News

Although Elfsborg seemed to debar immoderate injuries against GAIS past clip out, Hamberg's squad stay without Per Frick (ankle) and Niklas Hult (back) connected Sunday.

The seventh-placed hosts are not reliant connected 1 subordinate for final-third extremity product, with Leo Ostman, Arber Zeneli and Ari Sigurpalsson scoring four, 3 and 3 times, respectively, accounting for 58.8% of Di Gule's 17 league strikes.

While Sirius are not heavy reliant connected 1 player, the awesome returns of starring goalscorer Robbie Ure and Isak Bjerkebo outdo the remainder of the division.

Ure's 12 goals are 2 much than his teammate's 10, adjacent if some men person scored 3 match-winning strikes heading into this weekend's round, joint-top with Gustav Lindgren and Erik Botheim.

The distant broadside are apt to beryllium without injured quintet: Noel Milleskog (shoulder), Neo Jonsson, Joakim Persson (thigh), Tobias Anker and August Ljungberg (hip).

Elfsborg imaginable starting lineup:

Pettersson; Wikstrom, Holmen, Isherwood, Okeke; Magnusson, Olsson; Kamara, Beck, Sigurpalsson; Ostman

Sirius imaginable starting lineup:

Celic; Castegren, Soumah, Sandberg, Krusnell; Heier, Lindberg; Adindu, Svensson, Bjerkebo; Ure

We say: Elfsborg 1-3 Sirius

The league leaders person been relentless successful beforehand of goal, and their attacking consistency gives them a wide borderline heading to Boras.

Elfsborg whitethorn marque it awkward for spells, but their caller deficiency of wins points to different day wherever Sirius prehend power aft the break.

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