Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Kultsu & MP face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Finland Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
These are active days for the team playing at home, as they had a game only four days ago in the Kolmonen. That game was an away game at LaPa, so at least Kultsu are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Kultsu form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Finland Cup for Kultsu, as the manager Korhonen led his troops to eliminate Liry and Loviisa, and reach the 3rd Round. Kultsu participated in Finland Cup the last season, where they reached the 2nd round.Kultsu shared the glory with LaPa in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1.
Before that game, a strong away win at Liry. A Finland Cup match.
MP form and stats
Last season their Finland Cup adventure ended in the 6th round.MP are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Ykkonen, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).
Two away matches in a row for MP, whose coach Pasoja could celebrate last time after the win against HIFK.
Prior to that match, the MP manager Pasoja faced defeat when travelling to KäPa and losing 0-2.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting KPV in just three days.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, MP has managed {2 goals} and let in 2 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head numbers (for the former nine meetings): Kultsu won four games, zero matches ended with a tie and MP managed five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / three.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Luyeye-Lutumba 1 goals | O. Ruoppi 1 goals |
Kultsu missing players
MP missing players
| Kultsu | MP | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 8 | 14 | ||
| 58 | 18 | Scored | S | 11 | 35 | ||
| 34 | 14 | Conceded | C | 19 | 40 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 92% | ||
| 68% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 52% | ||
| 44% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 9% | 20% | ||
| 32% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 16% | ||
| 64% | 73% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 45% | 28% | ||
| 3.8 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 4.8 | ||
| 3.4 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 5.3 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.6 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8 | 9.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.2 | 7.7 | ||
| 4.1 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.8 | ||
| 50% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 40% | ||
| 6.5 | 7.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.7 | 8.5 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Gnistan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | SJK Akatemia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | KäPa | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | SalPa | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | JäPS | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | EIF | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | MP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | KPV | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | TPS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 10 | Jaro | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 11 | JJK | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 12 | HIFK | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 |
