GAIS vs. Halmstads BK - prediction, team news, lineups

Looking to respond to past weekend's league defeat to AIK, GAIS invited bottom-placed Halmstads BK to Gamla Ullevi successful Sunday's 14th gameweek.

The hosts are eighth successful the Allsvenskan table, though the Conference League hopefuls are lone 4 points shy of third-placed Hacken, up of this weekend's sojourn from their cellar-dwelling opponents.

Match preview

Without a nonaccomplishment since May, GAIS' unbeaten streak either broadside of the hiatus ended past play distant astatine AIK, losing 2-0 for their 5th top-flight loss.

While Fredrik Holmberg's squad returned to winning ways during the week with a 1-0 Conference League 2nd qualifying circular first-leg occurrence implicit Nordsjaelland, the Mackerels are backmost successful league play looking to debar consecutive setbacks for the archetypal clip since falling to 3 consecutive losses astatine the commencement of the campaign.

Not since the opening time of the play erstwhile they were beaten 1-0 by Djurgarden person the hosts suffered a nonaccomplishment successful Gothenburg, but they person held a beardown grounds astatine Gamla Ullevi since.

The adjacent six successful beforehand of their supporters person ended successful 4 wins and 2 draws, with those 14 points making their location signifier the third-best successful the Allsvenskan down Hammarby (19) and Sirius (16).

Having won the past 3 connected location soil, Holmberg's men volition backmost themselves to instrumentality to winning ways astatine Halmstad's expense.

Indeed, the struggling broadside look an uphill situation connected Sunday, considering GAIS' spot successful Gothenburg and their ongoing losing sequence.

A 2-0 relegation six-pointer occurrence implicit Orgryte successful their penultimate fixture earlier the hiatus has proven to beryllium a mendacious dawn for Bollklubben, who person since fallen to 4 consecutive defeats either broadside of the league's pause.

With the squad scoring conscionable 10 goals — the fewest successful the league — and letting successful 28 — a tally worse than each but Orgryte (33) and Goteborg (29) — Stuart Baxter's squad efficaciously person challenges astatine some ends of the pitch.

Thus, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot if the bottommost broadside find wrong them an anomalous show to halt GAIS' awesome winning tally astatine Gamla Ullevi.

A affirmative outcome, though, whitethorn look far-fetched, particularly considering that Halmstad person mislaid 5 of their six distant fixtures this term, including the past four, having scored 4 goals and conceded 15.

They person netted conscionable 2 successful their past 4 losses connected the road, falling to a brace of 2-0 losses against Mjallby and Kalmar, a 3-0 decision to Djurgarden and a 5-2 reverse astatine Malmo, highlighting their struggles for immoderate encouragement connected their travels up of Sunday afternoon.

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Team News

Matteo de Brienne was GAIS' leader successful their Conference League triumph connected Thursday, and the left-back is successful a consecutive conflict with Roin Wendin Thomasson to commencement successful Holmberg's backline this weekend.

The hosts are without Blessing Asuman, Mohamed Bawa, Kevin Holmen (knee) and Gustav Lundgren (Achilles) owed to injury.

Makrillarna person efficaciously dispersed the goals astir this term, with Samuel Salter and Robert Frosti Thorkelsson notching 3 each, and the brace volition anticipation to adhd to those tallies connected Sunday.

As for the cellar-dwellers, Omar Faraj leads the mode with 3 league goals for the Ball Club, though the guardant has not scored since the league's resumption, failing to find the nett against VSK, Djurgarden and Hacken.

On the wounded front, Baxter has a steadfast squad for the 14th gameweek, adjacent if Erko Jonne Tougjas volition beryllium assessed aft going disconnected aboriginal past clip out.

GAIS imaginable starting lineup:

Krasniqi; Wangberg, Frej, Agren, De Brienne; Milovanovic, Fagerjord, Sletsjoe; Thorkelsson, Salter, Niklasson

Halmstads BK imaginable starting lineup:

Ronning; Boman, Gregor, Wallentin, Kaib; Kapsimalis, Allansson, Ascone, Carneil; Arvidsson, Faraj

We say: GAIS 2-0 Halmstads BK

Halmstad person looked utterly bereft of assurance during their torrid four-game losing streak, and a travel to look a formidable GAIS broadside astatine Gamla Ullevi is improbable to connection immoderate respite for the cellar-dwellers.

Although a taxing midweek Conference League fixture could pb to immoderate dense legs successful the GAIS camp, their awesome momentum connected location ungraded suggests they person much than capable prime to flooded their relegation-threatened visitors.

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