Football Bet of the Day: Kristiansund to vanquish Viking

Kristiansund v Viking
Saturday 17:00

In Sweden yesterday, Orgryte scored twice in each half to crush Ljungskile 4-0 and land our win bet in a bit of style. We fancy there could be another home win to enjoy across the border in Norway this afternoon.

Kristiansund have won three Eliteserien games in a row at Kristiansund Stadium. Today they play Viking, who they beat 4-2 in this fixture last season and 2-1 in this season's reverse fixture. At even money, we're taking the hosts to make it four in a row on home turf.

Fifth-placed Kristiansund have an overall W4-D2-L1 home record this term, winning 4/4 against teams now below 10th-placed Viking in the table. The Owls scored at least twice in 5/7 and look to have the firepower to overcome Viking themselves.

Viking are W2-D2-L4 on the road this season. However, they've lost 4/4 visiting teams currently alongside Kristiansund in the top seven. Last season, they finished fifth, but still lost 6/6 on the road to teams that finished in the top seven. That's 10 straight defeats to top-seven teams. If you include eighth-placed teams, then they are W1-D1-L10 on the road at top-half outfits. Kristiansund have established themselves as exactly that, so we'll back them to take all three points.