Veikkausliiga: Lahti - VPS pre-match thoughts and numbers

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Competition: Fri 18.Aug
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Lahden Stadion (14500 seats)

Lahti - VPS in Veikkausliiga: Data, team sheets, results, tendencies and headlines. Get our thorough guide!

Insights:
  • Lahti have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • VPS is in the best form (6-0-0) in Veikkausliiga

This looks to be an engaging fixture with lots of fun and energy as both sides are well renewed since they last ran out on the pitch. Bring it on!

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Lahti form and stats

Lahti's struggle is real here at Lahden Stadion with only 8 points collected from 8 Veikkausliiga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-2-4.

Lahti travelled for their previous game, a trip to Oulu that ended 1-1. Alves felt an ounce or two of guilt after the draw against Oulu as the player was unable to convert a penalty kick in the 83rd minute.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Honka in a game that was won 1-0.

Trench warfare? In this team's last 10 league games, 8 have contained two goals or less.

Lahti have conceded 11 in these home matches.

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VPS form and stats

3-1-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for VPS in their Veikkausliiga matches away. Impressively, the visitors are on a seven-match winning run which they hope continue versus Lahti.

VPS are travelling after their nice 3-2 home win in the match against SJK (placed 3rd).

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Ilves at their stadium, the result 2-0.

Look out: 9 of the latest 12 league fixtures involving this side have had only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting terms).

12 goals have been conceded by VPS in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

VPS - Lahti 0-0 was the end result in these participants' previous head-to-head match, earlier this season. Head to head data (for the last ten meetings): Lahti won two games, six matches ended in a draw and VPS managed two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / six.

Top Goalscorers

LahtiI. Sadik
I. Sadik
3 goals
VPSK. Multanen
K. Multanen
2 goals
LahtiJ. Pirttijoki
J. Pirttijoki
1 goals

Lahti missing players

VPS missing players

Lahti VPS
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 8 2 Played P 2 9 19
4 2 1 Won W 1 3 8
7 2 1 Drew D 1 1 3
7 4 0 Lost L 0 5 8
16 8 1 Scored S 4 9 24
24 11 0 Conceded C 2 12 21
83% 88% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
67% 62% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 68%
33% 38% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 44% 47%
17% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 22% 21%
11% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
44% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 33% 32%
33% 38% 100% Clean Sheets C S 50% 33% 37%
39% 25% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 42%
 
4.2 4.2 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 7.5 5.7 5.3
4.6 3.1 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 7 6.4 6.1
2.5 1.8 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.1 1.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.2 9.8 10 Shots (avg) S ( 12.5 10 10.3
3 4 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.4 3.8
30% 25% 11% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 29% 33%
 
10.9 9.2 8 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 10.6 10.4
4.8 4.4 1.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 4.8 4.1
Key stats in Veikkausliiga this season:
  • Lahti have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • VPS haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • VPS is in the best form (6-0-0) in Veikkausliiga

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 KuPS 19 12 2 5 27 11 10 6 0 4 12 6 9 6 2 1 15 5 16 38
2 HJK 19 10 7 2 31 15 10 7 2 1 19 5 9 3 5 1 12 10 16 37
3 SJK 19 10 5 4 26 18 10 6 1 3 13 12 9 4 4 1 13 6 8 35
4 Oulu 19 9 4 6 30 29 9 4 2 3 14 14 10 5 2 3 16 15 1 31
5 VPS 19 8 3 8 24 21 10 5 2 3 15 9 9 3 1 5 9 12 3 27
6 Honka 19 7 5 7 18 16 10 5 2 3 12 7 9 2 3 4 6 9 2 26
7 Inter Turku 18 7 4 7 26 25 8 4 2 2 12 8 10 3 2 5 14 17 1 25
8 KTP 19 5 5 9 17 27 9 3 3 3 9 12 10 2 2 6 8 15 -10 20
9 Lahti 18 4 7 7 16 24 8 2 2 4 8 11 10 2 5 3 8 13 -8 19
10 Ilves 19 3 8 8 15 22 11 2 5 4 10 15 8 1 3 4 5 7 -7 17
11 Haka 19 3 8 8 22 34 9 1 8 0 15 13 10 2 0 8 7 21 -12 17
12 Mariehamn 19 3 6 10 18 28 9 1 3 5 6 13 10 2 3 5 12 15 -10 15

Read more about Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga is the premier division in Finnish football. It has its name from the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, the main sponsor. Seasons run from April to October in a league of twelve teams. These play two fixtures against each other in the regular season. After that the league table splits in two. The top teams play a championship round and the bottom half play a relegation round.