National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's GBK or Oulu that keep their silverware dream alive.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Veikkausliiga game only four days ago. That game, against Inter Turku, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Oulu.
GBK form and stats
GBK drew their last game, also a home match. OLS was the opponent, 3-3 the score. Opportunity lost for GBK in the OLS match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw.
Heartbreak before that as GBK lost 2-3 at JBK's place.Oulu form and stats
Last season their Finland Cup adventure ended in the group stage.The Veikkausliiga season is young and Oulu have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Oulu, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-2 versus Inter Turku.
Before that, Oulu travelled to VPS and returned home with a draw after the Veikkausliiga game finished 2-2.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Ilves in just four days.
It's early days yet, but Oulu has scored 3 and conceded 4 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Yaghoubi 1 goals |  O. Suutari 1 goals |
GBK missing players
Oulu missing players
| GBK | Oulu | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Won | W | 2 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 6 | ||
| 16 | 8 | Lost | L | 8 | 12 | ||
| 24 | 15 | Scored | S | 13 | 25 | ||
| 62 | 36 | Conceded | C | 27 | 36 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 88% | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 53% | 60% | ||
| 64% | 77% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 48% | ||
| 48% | 69% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 13% | 8% | ||
| 44% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 47% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 32% | ||
| 48% | 46% | Failed to Score | F T | 47% | 40% | ||
| 3.5 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 5.7 | ||
| 5.3 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.6 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.9 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 6.7 | 7.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 9.4 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.5 | ||
| 36% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 27% | ||
| 10.6 | 9.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.6 | 9.8 | ||
| 5.3 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | KuPS | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | HJK | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | VPS | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| 4 | Haka | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Honka | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Inter Turku | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | SJK | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Mariehamn | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Oulu | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 1 |
| 10 | HIFK | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 11 | Lahti | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 1 |
| 12 | Ilves | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
