Match preview: Home fans have high hopes when Levadia greet Nõmme Kalju

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Competition: Estonia Meistriliiga
Competition: Wed 13.April
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Sportland Arena (500 seats)

This is shaping up to be yet another engaging skirmish at Sportland Arena in the Meistriliiga. Levadia is in 2nd position and receive Nõmme Kalju in 3rd position. Read all about the match here!

Insights:
  • Levadia have the fewest conceded goals (1) in Meistriliiga
  • Nõmme Kalju have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Meistriliiga

Levadia's stadium, Sportland Arena, has a grass surface. Nõmme Kalju have artifical turf 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 Nõmme Kalju when playing on grass; 13 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses from 26 matches. They have scored 55 goals in these games and conceded 25.

This is a match between two teams close to each other, usually meaning extra pressure and significance.

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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Levadia form and stats

Perfect Meistriliiga season at home so far for Levadia 3 wins from 3 appearances. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of five straight victories regardless of arena.

The Levadia goalkeeper Karl Andre Vallner is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 378 minutes without conceding a goal in the Meistriliiga.

A good away victory last time out for Levadia, who won 1-0 against Paide (placed 5th). Some amazing scenes last match, when Vaštšuk scored the winning goal three minutes into stoppage time.

Before that, Levadia had a home game versus Tammeka which ended with a victory 4-0.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Levadia as they have a new game in only four days, a Meistriliiga match thankfully also at home. Kuressaare are visiting.

With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Levadia is on fire here. A stunning 11 from 3 league matches. Defensively Levadia have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (1 in 3 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Nõmme Kalju form and stats

Nõmme Kalju are on a winning streak away after three games, as mentioned below. A maximum 6 points in the bag from 2 travels in the Meistriliiga. Nõmme Kalju love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.

Nõmme had fun at their own home (Sportland Arena) last time out, beating Tallinna Kalev 2-1. Paur and Subbotin scored.

Prior to that result Nõmme Kalju won their away game at Legion. The scoreline was 4-2.

Nõmme have another fixture that requires travelling in just four sleeps, a Meistriliiga fixture against Tammeka. A gruelling fixture list for them!

7 goals so far away for Nõmme Kalju, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 4. All from 2 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Head to head statistics (for the previous ten meetings): Levadia won seven games, two matches ended in a draw and Nõmme Kalju managed one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five

Top Goalscorers

Nõmme KaljuA. Tamm
A. Tamm
5 goals
LevadiaZ. Beglarishvili
Z. Beglarishvili
4 goals
LevadiaM. Putinčanin
M. Putinčanin
3 goals

Levadia missing players

Nõmme Kalju missing players

Levadia Nõmme Kalju
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
5 3 0 Played P 0 2 6
5 3 0 Won W 0 2 5
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
20 11 0 Scored S 0 7 14
1 1 0 Conceded C 0 4 7
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
80% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
60% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 67%
60% 67% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 100% 33%
40% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 100% 33%
20% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 67%
80% 67% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 33%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
6.8 6.3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 7.5 7.5
1.6 0.3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5.5 4.7
1.2 0.3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.5 2.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14 18.3 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 9 11.2
7.4 9 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5.5 5
54% 41% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 64% 47%
 
3.6 1.7 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 9.5 8.3
1.2 1 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 6 3.8
Key stats in Meistriliiga this season:
  • All of Levadia's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Nõmme Kalju's away-matches have had more than 4,5 goals.
  • Levadia have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Levadia have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Levadia have the fewest conceded goals (1) in Meistriliiga
  • Levadia have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Meistriliiga
  • Levadia have the most clean sheets (4) in Meistriliiga
  • Levadia have the most scored goals (11) at home in Meistriliiga
  • Levadia have the most scored goals in the second half (13) in Meistriliiga
  • Levadia have the the best goal difference (+10) at home in Meistriliiga
  • Levadia have the the best goal difference (+19) in Meistriliiga
  • Levadia have won all their games so far.
  • Levadia have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Levadia haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Nõmme Kalju have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Nõmme Kalju have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Meistriliiga
  • Nõmme Kalju have won all their away games so far.
  • Nõmme Kalju haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Flora 7 7 0 0 21 3 3 3 0 0 10 1 4 4 0 0 11 2 18 21
2 Levadia 5 5 0 0 20 1 3 3 0 0 11 1 2 2 0 0 9 0 19 15
3 Nõmme Kalju 6 5 0 1 14 7 4 3 0 1 7 3 2 2 0 0 7 4 7 15
4 Tammeka 7 3 1 3 7 13 3 1 0 2 2 7 4 2 1 1 5 6 -6 10
5 Paide 6 3 0 3 12 8 3 0 0 3 3 6 3 3 0 0 9 2 4 9
6 Trans 5 3 0 2 7 5 2 1 0 1 3 3 3 2 0 1 4 2 2 9
7 Kuressaare 7 2 1 4 9 12 3 1 0 2 4 7 4 1 1 2 5 5 -3 7
8 Vaprus 7 1 0 6 8 22 4 1 0 3 5 14 3 0 0 3 3 8 -14 3
9 Tallinna Kalev 6 0 0 6 4 23 2 0 0 2 0 6 4 0 0 4 4 17 -19 0
10 Legion 6 0 2 4 5 13 4 0 2 2 5 9 2 0 0 2 0 4 -8 -2

Read more about Meistriliiga

The Estonian Meistriliiga is the highest level of football in Estonia. The season starts in March and ends in November, with ten teams playing each other four times for a total of 36 fixtures. After the final league table the bottom team is relegated and the second last team plays a relegation playoff.