National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's MYPA or KTP that keep their silverware dream alive.
MYPA's stadium, Kymenlaakson Sähkö Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. KTP have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for KTP when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 1 draw and 5 losses from seven matches. They have scored {6 goals} in these games and conceded 15.
It's no vacation for neither MYPA nor KTP as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
MYPA form and stats
MYPA was eliminated in the 1st round last season in the Finland Cup.The MYPA fans enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host PeKa and win 3-1.
Before that match, a Kolmonen win away at LaPa.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 MYPA had similar winning odds as today, and found 6 games. In these, the hosts won 1, drew 1 and lost 4. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that MYPA lost 3 similar games by at least two goals.
There will be little rest for MYPA after this match as they are travelling to MiPK for a Kolmonen game in only three days.
KTP form and stats
They also participated in Finland Cup last season. This ended in the 5th round.Still no away game victory in the Veikkausliiga for KTP with 1 draw and 2 losses from their first 3 attempts.
KTP has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Lahti for a 0-0 draw.
Preceding that match was the 3-3 draw at home vs HJK.The visitors have scored 2 goals from 3 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. KTP's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 5 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
KTP have been victorious in all of the 5 most recent battles versus this team. Can they do it again?Top Goalscorers
  W. Pozo-Venta 2 goals |  J. Mäkelä 1 goals | W. Alvés Furtado 1 goals |
MYPA missing players
KTP missing players
| MYPA | KTP | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 11 | Won | W | 5 | 10 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 77 | 45 | Scored | S | 20 | 42 | ||
| 24 | 9 | Conceded | C | 26 | 38 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 92% | ||
| 84% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 80% | ||
| 80% | 85% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 47% | 52% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 32% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 28% | ||
| 56% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 52% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 32% | ||
| 4% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 24% | ||
| 4 | 3.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.3 | 6.5 | ||
| 3.2 | 1.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.4 | 0.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 10.1 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 11.2 | ||
| 4.8 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 5 | ||
| 69% | 116% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 33% | ||
| 4.8 | 3.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 8.8 | ||
| 2.5 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | HJK | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 17 |
| 2 | KuPS | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 16 |
| 3 | SJK | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 14 |
| 4 | Oulu | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | -1 | 11 |
| 5 | Honka | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 9 |
| 6 | Haka | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 7 | Ilves | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 7 |
| 8 | Lahti | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 6 |
| 9 | KTP | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 10 | VPS | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -5 | 5 |
| 11 | Mariehamn | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -4 | 4 |
| 12 | Inter Turku | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 3 |
