EB/Streymur hosted Víkingur Gøta in the Meistaradeildin's seventeenth round on 2 August, and the visitors took all three points with a 2:1 win. Poulsen gave the hosts an early lead in the second minute, but Vatnhamar and Arngrimsson turned the game around for Gøta. The result leaves the visitors fifth while EB/Streymur remain eighth.
That opening goal from Poulsen came quickly, and it felt like the hosts might control proceedings. To be fair, they started with purpose, but the visitors responded without panic. The balance shifted after the break when Vatnhamar equalised in the forty-eighth minute, and the momentum drifted towards Gøta from that point.
Arngrimsson's eightieth-minute strike completed the turnaround, and by then EB/Streymur had little to show for their early advantage. The visitors made changes at sixty-five and seventy-five minutes, bringing fresh legs into the game. Arngrimsson's goal came after Svensson's substitution at the seventy-eighth mark, which suggests the staff had a plan.
There were five yellow cards for the hosts and one for the visitors, with Egilsson, Eliasen, Jonsson, Sowe and Brandsson all cautioned. The hosts had to deal with several bookings in the second half, and the discipline record tells a story of frustration. Jonsson received his card at sixty-five, the same minute Dahl-Olsen came on for EB/Streymur.
The statistics paint a flat picture: both sides are recorded at 0.5 possession with no shots or corners registered. Those numbers don't tell you much about a game decided by three goals, and they certainly don't capture the turning points. When the official figures show zero attacks and zero shots, you have to look elsewhere for context.
EB/Streymur sit eighth with twenty-one points from twenty-one games, while Víkingur Gøta occupy fifth place with thirty-three. The gap between them is twelve points, and that kind of distance doesn't close overnight. The hosts have won five, drawn five and lost eleven, while the visitors have eight victories and nine draws to show for their campaign so far.