The visiting Nõmme Kalju side should be favourites in this visit to Tallinna Kalev, as the away team holds a 5 point advantage from their six league games this season.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Tallinna Kalev form and stats
The story so far in the Meistriliiga for Tallinna Kalev, who have the most conceded goals (16) in Meistriliiga, at their home stadium (Kadrioru staadion) is 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
In their previous game, the manager L. Leetma led his Tallinna Kalev to a defeat in the Meistriliiga match away at Levadia. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Kadrioru staadion. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Legion in a game that was won 1-0.
As you see from the result above, Tallinna suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.
No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Tallinna Kalev had similar winning odds as today, and found twelve games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew two and lost ten. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Tallinna lost seven similar games by at least two goals.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Meistriliiga game versus Kuressaare in only three days. This game is also played here at Kadrioru staadion.
Tallinna Kalev has scored 3 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Tallinna have allowed the opposition to score 9 goals here at Kadrioru staadion. This has been a stadium of sighs so far as Tallinna Kalev have let the opposition score 9 times, an average of more than three per game.
Nõmme Kalju form and stats
Nõmme Kalju are yet to lose a point on their Meistriliiga travels this season with 3 wins from 3 away games.
Home advantage was not enough for Nõmme Kalju in their previous game, as they lost their Meistriliiga-match, hosting Flora, 1-2. Before that, Nõmme secured a home win against Levadia with the score 2-0.
As mentioned earlier, Nõmme will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in eight wins (five by two or more goals winning margin), three draws and zero surprising defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Paide in just three days.
The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Nõmme alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (9 from 3 played). The Nõmme defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average (0 goals in 3 games).
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Tallinna - Nõmme Kalju 0-4 played earlier this season. Tallinna Kalev-Nõmme Kalju H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Tallinna zero wins, Nõmme Kalju seven wins, three draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  K. Paur 3 goals |   M. Kaljumäe 2 goals |  H. Anier 2 goals |
Tallinna Kalev missing players
Nõmme Kalju missing players
| Tallinna Kalev | Nõmme Kalju | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 13 |
| 16 | 9 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 83% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 33% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 1.3 | 2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.3 | 3.2 |
| 10.8 | 9.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.7 | 4.8 |
| 2 | 2.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.3 | 3.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | 14 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 14 | 31 | 61 |
| 13 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 17 | 29 |
| 38% | 38% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 53% | 45% |
- Nõmme Kalju has the fewest conceded goals (0) away
- Nõmme Kalju has the fewest conceded goals (4)
- Nõmme Kalju has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1)
- Nõmme Kalju has the most clean sheets (3) away
- Nõmme Kalju has the most clean sheets (4)
- Nõmme Kalju has the most scored goals in the first half (8)
- Nõmme Kalju has the the best goal difference (+9) away
- Nõmme Kalju have created more than twice as many corners as Tallinna Kalev.
- Nõmme Kalju have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Nõmme Kalju have scored in all their matches so far.
- Nõmme Kalju have scored more than double the goals of Tallinna Kalev.
- Nõmme Kalju have won all their away games so far.
- Nõmme Kalju have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Nõmme Kalju haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Tallinna Kalev has the fewest scored goals in the first half (0)
- Tallinna Kalev has the most conceded goals (16)
- Tallinna Kalev has the the worst goal difference (-11)
- Tallinna Kalev has the the worst goal difference (-6) at home
- Tallinna Kalev have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Tallinna Kalev have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Tallinna Kalev have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Tallinna Kalev 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 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 19 |
| 2 | Levadia | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 16 |
| 3 | Nõmme Kalju | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 12 |
| 4 | Paide | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 9 |
| 5 | Tulevik | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -4 | 9 |
| 6 | Tammeka | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | -3 | 8 |
| 7 | Kuressaare | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -8 | 7 |
| 8 | Tallinna Kalev | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -11 | 7 |
| 9 | Legion | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -5 | 5 |
| 10 | Trans | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -5 | 2 |