Leiknir saw off Nyarvik 2:0 in the twenty-first matchday of the 1. Deild at home on Friday evening. The result keeps the hosts in ninth place with twenty-five points from twenty games, while Nyarvik remain fifth on thirty-five. It was a match defined more by what didn't happen than what did.
Kari Steinn Hlifarsson gave Leiknir the lead in the fifteenth minute, and that turned out to be the only goal documented in the match. By then the visitors had already been reduced to ten men after Arni Elvar Arnason picked up a second yellow card in the eighty-seventh minute. He'd been booked earlier at the fifty-eighth minute.
The statistics tell the strangest part of the story. Leiknir registered three attacks across ninety minutes. Nyarvik registered none. To be fair, having a man down for the final three minutes probably explains the zero attacking moves, but it's still a remarkable figure for a full match.
Leiknir made five substitutions during the contest. Haraldur Ingason came on at the start of the second half, Karl Bragi Bjarkason replaced him at the seventy-minute mark, and Kari Steinn Hlifarsson himself was withdrawn in the eighty-fifth minute despite having opened the scoring. Nyarvik brought on three players, including Oumar Diouck and Vladimar Johannsson both at seventy-five minutes.
For Nyarvik the loss extends a mixed run. They beat Völsungur 4:0 on the twenty-second of August but lost to ÍR Reykjavík 3:1 three days later. The gap to Leiknir in the table remains ten points, though Leiknir's attack numbers suggest this wasn't a match where tactics mattered much. Three attacks for a whole ninety minutes is unusual even for a conservative approach.