Paide favourites for feisty fight facing Levadia

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Competition: Estonia Meistriliiga
Competition: Sun 04.October
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Paide linnastaadion (268 seats)

2nd position in the Meistriliiga table for Paide so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 4th-placed Levadia visits Paide linnastaadion.

These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Estonian Cup. Thankfully the previous game, versus Pocarr, was also a home game here at Paide linnastaadion. The away team is better rested.

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Paide form and stats

Paide have performed here at Paide linnastaadion this season with 8 wins from 11 Meistriliiga matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 0 games and lost 3. 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. After failing to beat Nõmme Kalju here at Paide linnastaadion, Paide has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

Ahead of that match, Paide won a home game hosting Tallinna Kalev (4-1).

As indicated by the result mentioned above, Paide played a great game against Pocarr and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Paide have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found three games) they have won one time, drawn one and lost one.

Paide can score goals in their home matches. After 11 league matches they have found the net 27 times. Paide have conceded 13 in these home matches.

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Levadia form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Meistriliiga travels is 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. The fact that Levadia have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.

Before that, Levadia secured a home win against Nõmme Kalju with the score 2-1.

As mentioned above, Levadia was the only team on the pitch versus Lillekula Retro in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task.

Levadia are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, zero draws and three defeats. From a total of three matches.

The Levadia manager V. Vassiljev has got the team scoring on the road, with 23 away goals in 10 league matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Levadia have conceded 19 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Paide and Levadia have met before this season: Paide - Levadia 4-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Paide two wins, one draw and Levadia seven victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Paide missing players

Levadia missing players

Paide Levadia
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
21 11 3 Played P 2 10 21
15 8 2 Won W 0 4 12
0 0 0 Drew D 0 3 5
6 3 1 Lost L 2 3 4
54 27 7 Scored S 0 23 53
24 13 3 Conceded C 6 19 28
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
90% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 95%
76% 82% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 70% 76%
57% 55% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 70% 62%
24% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 30% 24%
57% 64% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 60% 57%
38% 36% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 33%
5% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 20% 10%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 1.8 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2.5 2.2
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
320 165 59 Total Shots T S 23 164 326
140 68 20 Shots on Target S O 4 62 133
39% 40% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 37% 38%
Key stats in Meistriliiga this season:
  • All of Levadia's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Paide's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Levadia haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Paide has the most scored goals in the first half (28) in Meistriliiga
  • Paide have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Paide have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Paide have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Paide 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 20 18 1 1 54 14 10 9 1 0 25 4 10 9 0 1 29 10 40 55
2 Paide 21 15 0 6 54 24 11 8 0 3 27 13 10 7 0 3 27 11 30 45
3 Nõmme Kalju 22 13 4 5 41 13 10 5 2 3 13 7 12 8 2 2 28 6 28 43
4 Levadia 21 12 5 4 53 28 11 8 2 1 30 9 10 4 3 3 23 19 25 41
5 Tulevik 22 9 2 11 26 37 12 4 1 7 15 23 10 5 1 4 11 14 -11 29
6 Tammeka 23 6 7 10 23 35 11 1 4 6 8 18 12 5 3 4 15 17 -12 25
7 Trans 23 5 6 12 21 33 11 4 2 5 11 12 12 1 4 7 10 21 -12 21
8 Legion 22 5 5 12 17 37 11 2 3 6 7 20 11 3 2 6 10 17 -20 20
9 Kuressaare 23 4 7 12 21 44 12 2 4 6 15 28 11 2 3 6 6 16 -23 19
10 Tallinna Kalev 23 3 3 17 12 57 11 1 1 9 5 32 12 2 2 8 7 25 -45 12

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.