Football Bet of the Day: Defences to take a Hamar-ing

Ham-Kam v Raufoss
Tuesday 17:00

In Sweden yesterday, the force was with Degerfors. They beat our boys Halmstads 4-1 to sink our DNB. We've crossed the border under cover of darkness and are hoping to make up for that reverse in Norway this evening.

There's a full round of Norwegian 1st Division matches and our pick is 11th-placed Raufoss's trip to last-placed Ham-Kam. Two meetings of these two last season each produced a 1-2 win for the visitors. We fancy their latest clash could produce even more goals.

Ham-Kam's first six league games of the current season have produced 27 goals at an average of 4.5 per match. Despite earning just two points from those games, the hosts have been prolific, accounting for 11 of the 27 goals. They've scored at least twice in 4/6 and only top-of-the-table Tromso have shut them out completely.

Raufoss have the 1st Division's second worst away record (W0-D2-L5), but those matches have been against strong opposition - they've already been to all of the current top five. They're yet to keep a clean sheet on the road, conceding 15 times at a rate of more than two goals per game. At the other end, however, only the top three teams have shut them out. They scored against all of the teams ranked 4th, 5th, 9th and 15th. In fact, that games against second-bottom Oygarden finished 4-4 and we fancy the goals to flow again on their trip to rock-bottom Ham-Kam.