With the match in Aarhus between the local team and the tail Hobro (1-0 in the delays), 2018 was closed for the Danish championship, with the match again at the same stadium, the new year begins.
This time Aarhus welcomes a much better team, Esbjerg, which is in 4th place and also closed its obligations with a victory (3-0 against Nordsjaelland). Six games before the end of the regular season, the two opponents aim to be in the top six and play in the respective playoffs. For Esbjerg the current and the next with the 3rd Brondby are crucial to achieve its goal while for the host who is at -4 of the first six places in today's match you have to get points.
Aarhus was strengthened in terms of transfers in order to be able to enter the top six and in the friendlies it seemed to find a solution to the problem of goals as in 20 league games it had scored 22 times (average 1,1). In the 5 friendlies he gave, he broke the nets, scoring 16 goals, of which 7 were against Brabant, who is playing in the 9rd division, but the remaining 2 were with Odense (3-3), Rosenborg (2-4), Nordsjaelland. (2-5). There is the other side of the coin that says that in these 9 games he conceded XNUMX goals, not to mention a few.
The blue and whites of Esbjerg with 26-26 goals in the league gave 4 friendlies (2 draws, 1 defeat, 1 victory) with a goal of 5-4 in total. Clearly more closed matches than those of their opponent from which they leave the field every time in recent years with several goals in the back. However, they always score in this stadium as they have scored this year in 8 out of 10 away from home.
The victory will be sought by Aarhus at all costs since the remaining games are few to be able to enter the top six while for Esbjerg it will be very important not to lose in this seat and keep its position. My initial thought about X is scary after the home team's statistics that emerged from the friendlies. It seems that he can score more easily than Esbjerg, although here he is not friendly, it is a crucial game and I prefer to avoid a point ending up with a 2-3 goal solution as I have something in mind at 1-1, 2-1 or 2-0.