Viborg FF vs. Odense - prediction, team news, lineups

Without a triumph against Odense successful 2 years, Viborg FF invited De Stribede to Energi Viborg Arena for Friday's Danish Superliga opener.

Both clubs had mixed pre-seasons, leaving supporters to wonderment which mentation of their sides volition crook up for the opening gameweek of the 2026-27 season.

Match preview

Nickolai Lund's Greens are backmost successful top-flight enactment aft a play successful which the four-time First Division winners missed retired connected Europe and a accidental to vie successful the tourney due connected the continent.

While their attempts successful 2000 and 2022 were yet unsuccessful, Lund's squad indispensable determination connected from the disappointment of not having a 3rd try.

Results successful the off-season person been mixed, with the Greens winning conscionable 2 of their 5 tune-up matches up of the 26-27 campaign.

Notably, though, having conceded 4 goals successful their archetypal 2 pre-season fixtures, drafting 1-1 with AGF and losing 3-1 to Aalborg, 2 cleanable sheets successful 3 followed, arsenic they bushed Notts County (2-0) and Aarhus Fremad, giving them much-needed positivity up of their opening fixture.

That encouragement is needed for the hosts connected Friday, with supporters remembering their team's underwhelming results astatine Viborg Stadium to extremity the 2025-26 title round.

Aware of Viborg losing 3 of their past 4 connected location ungraded astatine the extremity of the erstwhile term, this weekend's visitors purpose to widen their undefeated streak successful this fixture.

Having been connected the receiving extremity of 3-1 and 2-1 losses successful 2024, Odense inflicted defeats by the aforesaid people connected Viborg past word to permission them connected the brink of 3 wins successful a enactment successful this fixture, thing they past achieved aft 2-0, 1-0 and 5-1 wins betwixt September 2015 and April 2016.

However, past season's eighth-placed broadside caput into the archetypal gameweek connected the backmost of deflating, dense defeats to Brøndby and Midtjylland, falling 4-0 and 4-1, respectively.

Those dense defeats followed wins implicit Kolding IF (2-1) and Hillerød (2-0), leaving observers to uncertainty De Stribede's existent level.

Admittedly, it would beryllium unusual to request a agleam commencement from OB, fixed however they finished the erstwhile season.

Alexander Zorniger's broadside mislaid 3 of their past 5 games successful the relegation circular and 2 of their 7 matches, suffering 4 defeats during that time.

Indeed, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot however a broadside that won conscionable 1 of their past 7 distant matches crossed the regular and post-season matches commencement 26-27 connected their travels.

Viborg FF friendlies form:

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Team News

Viborg are expected to beryllium without Yonis Njoh, Mohamed and Iyadh Riahi (knee), portion Hjalte Bidstrup, Sami Jalal and Tim Freriks are besides apt absentees.

Charly Nouck scored six goals for the Greens past season, much than immoderate teammate, and the guardant should commencement connected Friday.

While Nouck besides assisted 3 goals past term, Thomas Jorgensen led the mode with seven, highlighting his relation arsenic the team's astir originative outlet.

The visitors are apt to beryllium without Jay-Roy Grot, portion William Martin's wounded volition beryllium assessed earlier Friday.

Noah Ganaus and Jann-Fiete Arp scored 11 and 10 league goals respectively past term, outdoing each different OB player, and some men should play from the disconnected for past season's eighth-placed side.

Viborg FF imaginable starting lineup:

Lund; Bundgaard, Kirkegaard, Zaletel, Kuzmic; Jorgensen, Gronning, Beck; Nouck, Hanza, Brahimi

Odense imaginable starting lineup:

Hansen; Sorensen, Askou, Gomez, McCoy; Arp, Keskinen, Falk, Ouedraogo; Niemiec, Ganaus

We say: Viborg FF 1-1 Odense

There is capable attacking endowment connected some sides to suggest goals astatine either end, adjacent if neither squad has convinced consistently successful pre-season.

Indeed, Viborg's shaky antiaircraft grounds and OB not pulling up trees connected their travels to adjacent retired past play constituent towards a draw.

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