Soccer betting preview: Trans welcomes Nõmme Kalju in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Estonia Meistriliiga
Competition: Sat 08.May
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Kreenholmi Staadion (3000 seats)

Getting closer to the top teams is at stake when these two mid-table clubs battle it out. Both will be aiming to improve their league table standing, Trans in 4th and Nõmme Kalju in 5th place.

Insights:
  • Trans have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Nõmme Kalju have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Trans and Nõmme Kalju.

This stadium uses grass, unlike Nõmme Kalju's home stadium. The visitors last 36 games on grass have ended in 20 wins, 11 draws and 5 losses.

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Trans form and stats

3 victories, 2 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what Trans have to build on here at Kreenholmi Staadion in the Meistriliiga. There’s a good atmosphere here at Kreenholmi Staadion after three straight home wins.

Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Kuressaare.

This is expected to be a close game, with Trans perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Trans as a small favourite), we find one game. Trans has won zero of these, drawn zero and lost one.

There will be little rest for Trans after this match as they are travelling to Flora for a Estonian Cup game in only three days.

Trans can score goals in their home matches. After 5 league matches they have found the net 11 times. Trans are not conceding a lot of goals here at Kreenholmi Staadion in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 5 matches.

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Nõmme Kalju form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Meistriliiga travels is 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Tulevik with the score of 3-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found three similar matches played by Nõmme in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Nõmme Kalju, one draw and zero defeats.

Nõmme has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 7 goals from 4 games. Nõmme Kalju are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 4 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Nõmme Kalju - Trans 0-1, played this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Trans won three, Nõmme Kalju won four and three draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

TransE. Golovljov
E. Golovljov
6 goals
TransA. Zakarlyuka
A. Zakarlyuka
4 goals
Nõmme KaljuA. Tamm
A. Tamm
3 goals

Trans missing players

Nõmme Kalju missing players

Trans Nõmme Kalju
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 5 1 Played P 1 4 9
4 3 0 Won W 1 3 4
2 2 1 Drew D 0 0 0
3 0 0 Lost L 0 1 5
15 11 0 Scored S 1 7 12
17 4 0 Conceded C 0 3 9
89% 80% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
78% 80% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 56%
56% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 44%
44% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 22%
44% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
56% 60% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 44%
33% 40% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 22%
22% 20% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 33%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.2 2.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
8.9 11.2 9 Shots (avg) S ( 13 12.5 12.6
4.1 5.2 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.8 5.2
41% 42% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 37% 26%
Key stats in Meistriliiga this season:
  • Nõmme Kalju have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Nõmme Kalju have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Nõmme Kalju have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Nõmme Kalju haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Trans have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Trans have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Paide 9 7 2 0 20 6 4 4 0 0 9 2 5 3 2 0 11 4 14 23
2 Levadia 9 7 1 1 23 11 5 4 0 1 16 10 4 3 1 0 7 1 12 22
3 Flora 6 4 2 0 16 5 2 1 1 0 5 0 4 3 1 0 11 5 11 14
4 Trans 9 4 2 3 15 17 5 3 2 0 11 4 4 1 0 3 4 13 -2 14
5 Nõmme Kalju 9 4 0 5 12 9 5 1 0 4 5 6 4 3 0 1 7 3 3 12
6 Legion 9 3 2 4 9 10 5 2 1 2 5 5 4 1 1 2 4 5 -1 11
7 Tammeka 7 2 1 4 9 12 3 0 1 2 2 4 4 2 0 2 7 8 -3 7
8 Tulevik 9 1 2 6 12 26 4 0 1 3 4 11 5 1 1 3 8 15 -14 5
9 Vaprus 6 1 1 4 5 13 2 0 0 2 2 5 4 1 1 2 3 8 -8 4
10 Kuressaare 9 1 1 7 7 19 6 1 1 4 7 15 3 0 0 3 0 4 -12 4

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.