Esiliiga match preview: Tartu Welco versus Legion

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Competition: Estonia Esiliiga
Date: Thu 26.September
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tamme staadion (2500 seats)

Struggling Tartu Welco will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Legion in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Tartu Welco form and stats

Tartu Welco's struggle is real here at Tamme staadion with only 5 points collected from 8 Esiliiga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-5. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Tartu Welco after consecutive victories at their own ground.

A good away victory last time out for Tartu Welco, who won 1-0 against Tammeka II (placed 6th). Ahead of that match, Tartu Welco won a home game hosting Rakvere Tarvas (4-0).

Tartu Welco are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 11 goals in 8 attempts. As for conceded goals, Tartu Welco's unpleasant statistic is 23 goals surrendered.

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Legion form and stats

The away performances of Legion, who have the most points (22) away in Esiliiga, have been very solid so far with 7 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats in the Esiliiga. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. Legion have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.

Legion are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the Esiliiga against Levadia II (placed 8th). Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Flora II.

The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Legion alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (26 from 8 played). Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Legion have conceded 12 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Legion - Tartu Welco 6-2 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Tartu Welco 0 wins, 0 draws and Legion 3 victories. As for goals, 3 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 0 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

R. Alijev
30 goals
M. Šatov
15 goals
S. Tšendei
11 goals

Tartu Welco missing players

Legion missing players

Tartu Welco Legion
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs low Away Total
30 15 4 Played P 5 15 30
4 3 0 Won W 4 11 24
5 3 0 Drew D 1 3 4
21 9 4 Lost L 0 1 2
32 19 2 Scored S 16 40 89
75 34 11 Conceded C 6 22 31
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
93% 93% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 93% 93%
67% 53% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 73% 73%
43% 47% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 60% 47% 40%
27% 33% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 60% 47% 37%
67% 60% 50% BTTS BTTS 60% 73% 53%
10% 13% 0% Clean Sheets C S 40% 27% 47%
23% 27% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 3%
 
4.4 4.8 3.3 Corners For (avg) C F 10.6 8.3 8.1
6.4 6.3 8.3 Corners Against (avg) C A 2.4 3.2 3
2.5 2.6 1 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1.2 1.7 1.6
4 3 1 Red Cards R C 1 6 7
Key stats This season:
  • Legion have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Legion have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Legion have scored more than double the goals of Tartu Welco.
  • Legion have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Legion haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Tartu Welco have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Tartu Welco haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Tartu Welco
01-09-19 ES K-Järve JK Järve 2 - 1 Tartu Welco
07-09-19 EC Voru FC Helios 2 - 1 Tartu Welco
14-09-19 ES Flora II 1 - 1 Tartu Welco
19-09-19 ES Tartu Welco 4 - 0 Rakvere Tarvas
23-09-19 ES Tammeka II 0 - 1 Tartu Welco
26-09-19 ES Tartu Welco 16:00 Legion
05-10-19 ES Levadia II 10:00 Tartu Welco
19-10-19 ES Vaprus 16:00 Tartu Welco
26-10-19 ES Tartu Welco 11:00 Elva
31-10-19 ES Tartu Welco 18:00 K-Järve JK Järve
Legion
01-09-19 ES Legion 2 - 0 Rakvere Tarvas
07-09-19 ES Legion 5 - 3 Elva
14-09-19 ES Tallinna Kalev II 0 - 1 Legion
19-09-19 ES Legion 1 - 2 Flora II
22-09-19 ES Legion 2 - 0 Levadia II
26-09-19 ES Tartu Welco 16:00 Legion
05-10-19 ES Legion 10:00 Tammeka II
19-10-19 ES Rakvere Tarvas 10:00 Legion
26-10-19 ES Legion 11:00 K-Järve JK Järve
02-11-19 ES Legion 12:00 Vaprus

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Legion 15 13 2 0 43 14 7 6 1 0 17 2 8 7 1 0 26 12 29 41
2 Flora II 15 9 3 3 39 14 8 5 2 1 23 4 7 4 1 2 16 10 25 30
3 Vaprus 15 9 2 4 34 16 7 6 0 1 22 5 8 3 2 3 12 11 18 29
4 K-Järve JK Järve 15 9 1 5 27 20 8 5 1 2 17 12 7 4 0 3 10 8 7 28
5 Elva 15 7 1 7 30 26 7 5 0 2 19 9 8 2 1 5 11 17 4 22
6 Tammeka II 15 5 2 8 19 22 8 4 1 3 12 8 7 1 1 5 7 14 -3 17
7 Rakvere Tarvas 15 5 1 9 17 36 8 4 0 4 10 11 7 1 1 5 7 25 -19 16
8 Levadia II 15 4 2 9 18 34 7 2 2 3 10 13 8 2 0 6 8 21 -16 14
9 Tallinna Kalev II 15 4 2 9 21 38 7 2 0 5 12 25 8 2 2 4 9 13 -17 14
10 Tartu Welco 15 1 2 12 17 45 8 1 2 5 11 23 7 0 0 7 6 22 -28 5

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