Soccer fixture guide: Home crowds with high expectations before VPS - KTP

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Competition: Fri 25.Aug
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Elisa Stadion (4600 seats)

In total; 20 league fixtures are finished and VPS are 10 points ahead of KTP. What will the score be?

Insights:
  • VPS is in the best form (6-0-0) in Veikkausliiga
  • KTP have the fewest points (8) away in Veikkausliiga

VPS's stadium, Elisa Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. KTP have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for KTP when playing on artifical turf; 3 wins, 0 draws and 5 losses from eight matches. They have scored {21 goals} in these games and conceded 12.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Veikkausliiga.

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VPS form and stats

VPS have played 10 Veikkausliiga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-2-3 (wins-draws-losses). The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of eight straight victories regardless of arena.

VPS enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Lahti's place. The match ended 2-0 with Bashkirov and Michael scoring.

Before that game, the 3-2 home victory against SJK.

It should be taken into account that a peek at the 10 most recent league games reveals that 8 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).

VPS have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Elisa Stadion with 15 goals in 10 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, VPS have conceded only 9 goals.

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KTP form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for KTP so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-6 (win-draw-lose).

This fixture can not go any worse than the last one, the home loss versus Haka with 1-2 on the scoreboard.

Prior to that result KTP won their away game at SJK. The scoreline was 3-2.

The visitors have scored 8 goals from 10 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. KTP have conceded 15 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

KTP have put together a streak of 6 consecutive matches without defeat (4-2-0) when playing VPS.

It's not the first time these teams meet on the pitch this season, as the history books show this recent fixture: KTP - VPS 1-0.

Top Goalscorers

VPSK. Multanen
K. Multanen
2 goals
KTPW. Pozo-Venta
W. Pozo-Venta
2 goals
VPSJ. Pikkarainen
J. Pikkarainen
1 goals

VPS missing players

KTP missing players

VPS KTP
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 3 10 20
9 5 2 Won W 1 2 5
3 2 1 Drew D 0 2 5
8 3 0 Lost L 2 6 10
26 15 6 Scored S 2 8 18
21 9 2 Conceded C 3 15 29
90% 80% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 80%
70% 70% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 50% 60%
45% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 40% 40%
20% 20% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 30% 25%
10% 20% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 20%
30% 30% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 40% 40%
40% 40% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 30% 35%
40% 50% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 50% 45%
 
5.2 4.9 5.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4.3 4.1 5.7
6.2 5.8 7.7 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 5.6 5.7
1.9 1.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 1.9 2.4
1 1 1 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
10.2 10.6 11.7 Shots (avg) S ( 9.7 8.2 8.9
3.9 4.2 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3 3.5
34% 36% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 27% 26%
 
10.2 10.2 11.3 Shots against (avg) S A 7.7 10.5 11.5
4.1 3.5 4.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.7 4.7 4.6
Key stats in Veikkausliiga this season:
  • KTP have the fewest points (8) away in Veikkausliiga
  • KTP have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • VPS have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 20 13 2 5 30 11 11 7 0 4 15 6 9 6 2 1 15 5 19 41
2 HJK 20 11 7 2 34 16 10 7 2 1 19 5 10 4 5 1 15 11 18 40
3 SJK 20 10 5 5 26 21 10 6 1 3 13 12 10 4 4 2 13 9 5 35
4 Oulu 20 9 4 7 30 32 10 4 2 4 14 17 10 5 2 3 16 15 -2 31
5 VPS 20 9 3 8 26 21 10 5 2 3 15 9 10 4 1 5 11 12 5 30
6 Honka 20 8 5 7 19 16 10 5 2 3 12 7 10 3 3 4 7 9 3 29
7 Inter Turku 19 7 4 8 27 28 9 4 2 3 13 11 10 3 2 5 14 17 -1 25
8 Ilves 20 4 8 8 18 22 11 2 5 4 10 15 9 2 3 4 8 7 -4 20
9 Haka 20 4 8 8 24 35 9 1 8 0 15 13 11 3 0 8 9 22 -11 20
10 KTP 20 5 5 10 18 29 10 3 3 4 10 14 10 2 2 6 8 15 -11 20
11 Lahti 19 4 7 8 16 26 9 2 2 5 8 13 10 2 5 3 8 13 -10 19
12 Mariehamn 20 3 6 11 18 29 10 1 3 6 6 14 10 2 3 5 12 15 -11 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.