Storhamar – Lorenskog

Storhamar in goal form – Lørenskog struggles to recover

Storhamar enters their next match against Lørenskog with an offensive form curve that is pointing steeply upwards. The Hamar team has scored a lot of goals recently, and their matches have often become goal-rich affairs. They produce chances at a high pace, fill in with many players in attack and are effective once they establish pressure in the offensive zone. The result is that Storhamar not only wins matches, but often does so by clear numbers.

It is also a common feature that Storhamar's matches contain a lot of goals in total. Even when they concede, they continue to attack, which drives the match up in terms of pace and number of shots. This gives the opponent little breathing space, and makes it challenging to keep the goal count down over 60 minutes.

For Storhamar, they face a Lørenskog team that still has major defensive challenges. Lørenskog concedes a lot of goals, both consistently throughout the season and especially against teams with high offensive quality. The gaps behind are often too large, and the team has trouble clearing up when the pressure is sustained. This has led to several games where they have suffered many late goals early on, and then had to chase the rest of the match.

Offensively, Lørenskog can be there at times, but a lack of defensive stability means that games often tip the wrong way. Against a Storhamar in a scoring mood, this is precisely what could be decisive.

Conclusion

Everything is set for another match with a high tempo and many goals, where Storhamar's offensive strength is set against Lørenskog's problems with keeping close at the back. Storhamar has scored over five goals in the last nine matches, and over six goals in the last five, and none of these matches has had less than 7 goals in total.

Therefore I guess:

Ice hockey at 18:30: Storhamar – Lørenskog: Storhamar over 5.5 goals (1.96)