Halmstad vs Malmo FF Prediction

Form finds Malmo ahead, but not dominant

Over their last 20 matches, Malmo have won nine, drawn three, and lost eight, scoring freely but also conceding a fair number themselves. Halmstad's record in the same span reads four wins, five draws, and eleven losses, with goals hard to come by and their defence leaking regularly.

Halmstad: 20 completed matches; Malmo FF: 20 completed matches.

Halmstad

20 matches

Win

25% 5 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

50% 10 / 20

Scored

21

Conceded

35

Difference

-14

Malmo FF

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

15% 3 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

39

Conceded

31

Difference

+8

Neither team's recent run is spotless, but Malmo have clearly had the better of it.

Comparative Team Statistics: Halmstad vs Malmo FF

Head-to-head has favoured whoever's at home

Looking back over the last several meetings between these two, the home side has usually come out on top, often by more than a single goal. Malmo won 5-2 at home back in May, and Halmstad had a comfortable win on their own patch the season before that.

It's not a one-way head-to-head at all, which suggests home advantage has counted for something in this fixture down the years.

That pattern makes Halmstad's home advantage worth factoring in, even given their league position.

League table tells a clear story

Malmo sit seventh in the table, while Halmstad are down in sixteenth. That's a big gap in league position at this stage of the season.

Points tallies reflect that too, with Malmo picking up more than double what Halmstad have managed so far.

That gap in the table lines up with how both sides have been playing recently.

Botheim leads Malmo's attack

E. Botheim has been Malmo's main source of goals, with ten in nineteen appearances this season. Hakšabanović and Rosengren have supplied plenty of assists between them, showing where the creative side of Malmo's play tends to come from.

Halmstad:

Penalty cards:

A. Boman x 1 x 1

R. Kaib x 6

Malmo FF:

Best scorers:

E. Botheim - 10

Best assist providers:

S. Hakšabanović - 6

O. Rosengren - 4

Penalty cards:

M. Pålsson x 1 x 1

O. Rosengren x 6

K. Busuladžić x 6

On the discipline side, Halmstad's Kaib and Malmo's Rosengren and Busuladžić have all picked up six yellow cards apiece, while Halmstad's Boman has already seen red once.