IA Akranes

vs

Keflavik

Preview

IA Akranes

• IA Akranes have drawn one and not lost their one home match this season
• IA Akranes have a different style to Keflavik and have shown they are good enough to beat their visitors on any given day.
• IA have won one, drawn two and lost two of their last five, so they are not in the best of form, but the home advantage and recent results suggest a win is more likely than a defeat.
• Larus Sigurdsson has been in charge of the club since June 2025 and appears to have made progress with his pragmatic, academy-centred approach.

Keflavik

• Keflavik have one win, one draw and three defeats in their last five.
• Keflavik have won one and lost two of their three away games, conceding 2.33 goals per match in Besta deild karla 2026.
• The promoted club have had a similar start to their first season in the top flight, winning 2-1 at KA Akureyri before suffering a 3-1 home defeat to Vikingur Reykjavik last weekend.
• Haraldur Gudmundsson took over in August 2023 and has done a good job of consolidating the squad and getting them to play within themselves.
• They will prefer to keep things compact and controlled in a 4-2-3-1 formation with a strong emphasis on building from the back and not taking unnecessary risks.

Key Players

• IA Akranes’ Markus Ellertsson has scored four league goals in two appearances, scoring two of his side’s last three
• Stefan Ljubicic leads the line for the visitors with three goals in one league appearance this term and has been involved in half of the last six goals his side have scored.

Betting Insights

• So there’s plenty of momentum and evidence to back up a home win at what appears to be a generous price of 1.76 on Friday.
• A win will mean more to Keflavik, but Akranes are better value than they appear to be at 1.76.

Prediction

• This will be a battle between the verticality of IA and the compactness of Keflavik’s 4-2-3-1 system and it could be the sharper attack that gets the win.
• Back Akranes for the win with odds of 1.76.