Silkeborg – Lyngby
Danish Superliga Round 11
Silkeborg, October 6, 19:00 CET
On the first day of October, Silkeborg missed a historic opportunity for them to take over the top of the Danish Superliga, away to Randers. The 1:0 defeat was the end of a streak of seven wins and nine matches without loss.
This Friday, at home against Lyngby, the Silkeborg team will be fiercely motivated to show that the setback against Randers was just a moment of weakness for the team facing the pressure of being the strong favorites for the first time after a long period. Lyngby is a tricky opponent at the moment - against whom the home team will definitely be in a good position to win.
Since the beginning of the season, Lynby have already been defeated three times away from home. This team has three draws and three wins in their last six matches since the start of September - but in previous weeks they haven't faced a rival of the quality that Silkeborg has.
What is obvious is that Silkeborg is playing a bit more cautiously in the last period. Of their last six games, three have ended 1:0. Also, five times it happened that only one team scored a goal in the last six matches of this club.
Behind Lyngby is the victory away at Odense 2:1, in a match in which the home team still deserved more than defeat and had 21 shots. On the other hand, in the defeat against Randers on last Sunday, Silkeborg was at least an equal opponent.
At home, Silkeborg has won four in a row – in the period since the beginning of August. In none of four wins did this team score more than two goals. This is a squad that plays very patiently in matches in front of their fans, so we should not expect a large number of goals.
In the last two visits to Silkeborg, Lynbgy team failed to score a goal. Last season, in May of this year, the home team won 1:0. In their match in June 2020, it was 2:0 for Silkeborg. At the moment, it seems that the result on Friday could be 1:0 or 2:0 again for the favorites.
First of all, the Silkeborg squad has been decorated with an extremely reliable defense so far. The team is aware that it will be extremely important who scores the first goal in this match, in the fight for victory. The absolute star in the home team is the young Danish forward Alexander Lind. So far, he has already scored nine goals in the Superliga, he is the top scorer of the competition, and in the last eight appearances for the club in the Danish championship, he managed to score seven times.
Silkeborg, who are not burdened by injuries to their starters, expects a demanding task - but this team has beaten much better opponents this season than Lyngby and is in a great position to secure first place in the table with a win, if only for the day. The match will be watched with great attention by the home fans, since almost three decades have passed since their club was the champion of Denmark and these are by all accounts special days in their modern history.