National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's ACE or HJS Akatemia that keep their silverware dream alive.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Kakkonen game only three days ago.
ACE form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Finland Cup for ACE, as the manager led his troops to eliminate NoPS II and LLuja, and reach the 3rd Round. Last season, ACE's Finland Cup journey ended in the 1st round.Happy days for ACE in their previous game, a fixture away at TP-T that ended with a 4-0 victory. As mentioned above, ACE "killed" TP-T in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
Before that game, a nice away victory at NoPS II. A Finland Cup game. 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 ACE had similar winning odds as today, and found 4 games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 1 and lost 3. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that ACE lost 2 similar games by at least two goals.
The match schedule is unforgiving for ACE as they have a new game in only two days, a Kolmonen - Länsi match thankfully also at home. PJK are visiting.
HJS Akatemia form and stats
Last season their Finland Cup adventure ended in the 6th round.HJS Akatemia failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs PIF that ended with defeat 1-2. Late heartbreak for HJS Akatemia in the PIF match, as the deciding 1-2 goal came deep into overtime.
A 1-4 loss hosting Ilves II before that.Head 2 Head
ACE-HJS Akatemia H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: ACE zero wins, HJS Akatemia one win, one draw. one of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  M. Paussu 1 goals | E. Supperi 1 goals |
ACE missing players
HJS Akatemia missing players
| ACE | HJS Akatemia | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Won | W | 3 | 12 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 14 | 6 | Lost | L | 6 | 11 | ||
| 73 | 26 | Scored | S | 13 | 43 | ||
| 67 | 31 | Conceded | C | 20 | 42 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 80% | ||
| 84% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 72% | ||
| 76% | 73% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 44% | ||
| 60% | 64% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 28% | ||
| 64% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 60% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 16% | ||
| 20% | 36% | Failed to Score | F T | 45% | 28% | ||
| 4.1 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 5.7 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 5.7 | ||
| 0.7 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.5 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8.7 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.3 | 10.1 | ||
| 5.1 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 4.4 | ||
| 59% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 36% | ||
| 10.7 | 10.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.7 | 11.6 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 5.4 | ||
