In May, KR left Kópavogur with six goals against them. Nine went in that afternoon, and Breiðablik saw off their Reykjavík visitors 6–3 in a game that opened right up. Now the fixture flips. Breiðablik travel the short distance to Meistaravellir, into the home of a side with no reason to have forgotten the last meeting. Four months have passed, both teams are in a different gear, but the scoreline still stands. KR get the chance to correct it in front of their own crowd.
The market
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KR arrive in far better shape than that May scoreline suggests. They rolled over Stjarnan 5–0 last month, with Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson and Aron Sigurðarson scoring twice apiece and Arnór Ingvi Traustason adding another. They sit second, five points behind leaders Víkingur, who hold a game in hand. The title race is real, and a home game like this is not one to waste.
Breiðablik — from neighbouring Kópavogur, just across the capital area — come in from a different direction. Where KR's summer has been open and goal-heavy, Breiðablik have ground out two narrow wins in a row: 1–0 over ÍBV, with Ágúst Orri Þorsteinsson getting the winner, and 2–1 at Akranes after falling behind. This is a side that knows how to land tight results — a world away from the six-goal outburst in Kópavogur. There has been reported speculation around the position of Breiðablik manager Ólafur Ingi Skúlason, though that is unconfirmed and worth treating with caution. On the pitch the task is clearer: Breiðablik are fighting for a European place and have found a way to take the points even when the chances are fewer.
Recent confirmed results
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3-6 v Breiðablik (A)
2-1 v ÍA (A) 6-3 v KR (H) ```
The big question is KR's defence. They have scored in bunches this summer, but they have conceded in bunches too, and the six they let in back in May were no fluke. Against that, Breiðablik have Ágúst Orri Þorsteinsson, their sharpest man in recent wins — quiet until he turns up in the right spot. If Breiðablik can slow the game down and make it about individual moments, as they did against ÍBV and ÍA, that suits them far more than it suits KR.
So KR need to keep the game on their terms: fast, front-footed, with Aron Sigurðarson and Eiður Gauti leading the line and the press high. If it opens up again, the hosts have the firepower to punish it. But if Breiðablik hold their shape and force KR to attack into a packed defence, the scoring can flip the other way — it was in an open game that Breiðablik hurt them so badly last time.
Head-to-head
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The pick
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Both teams to score: Yes ```
KR are second, at home, in good scoring form and with something to prove after that May night in Kópavogur. That counts for more than Breiðablik's recent knack in tight games, and everything about how these two have played this summer points to the ball ending up in the net more than twice.
The risk is that Breiðablik have shown over the last few weeks that they can steer a game down to a 1–0. If they shut it off early and score first, both the over and the both-teams-to-score call are in trouble — and the discipline they found against ÍBV could prove hard going for KR. But as long as the home defence keeps giving as much as it has all summer, the lean is toward goals.
This is also a night when the title race tightens. KR cannot afford to drop points at Meistaravellir with Víkingur ahead of them. And in that fight Arnór Ingvi Traustason, a former Iceland international, is still among the scorers — the kind of experienced head KR need when it matters most.