National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's NoPS or Ilves that keep their silverware dream alive.
The visiting Ilves played their last game only four days ago, a Veikkausliiga match. That game, against SJK, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Ilves.
NoPS form and stats
NoPS was eliminated in the 3rd round last season in the Finland Cup.The NoPS supporters enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Haka Juniorit and win 3-2.
In the game before, a nice away win at ÅCF. A Finland Cup game.
Ilves form and stats
They also participated in Finland Cup last season. This ended in the 4th round.The Veikkausliiga season is young and Ilves have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.
Ilves are travelling again after losing away to SJK in their previous match (0-1).
A loss against Oulu was the result prior to that, in a Veikkausliiga home game.After this away game Ilves return home for a Veikkausliiga game against HJK. That game is only four sleeps after this.
There's been a serious shortage of goals from Ilves's away games in the league this season with only {1 goals} from 3 matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. Parfitt-Williams 2 goals | P. Pennanen 1 goals |
NoPS missing players
Ilves missing players
| NoPS | Ilves | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 21 | 10 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 4 | 11 | ||
| 97 | 43 | Scored | S | 15 | 33 | ||
| 24 | 14 | Conceded | C | 9 | 31 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 88% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 68% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 48% | ||
| 68% | 75% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 24% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 20% | ||
| 60% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 32% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 58% | 32% | ||
| 5.2 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.5 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.9 | 4.5 | ||
| 0.9 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.4 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 12.1 | 16.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.8 | 8.9 | ||
| 6.2 | 8.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.8 | ||
| 62% | 48% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 34% | ||
| 5.2 | 7.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.2 | 9.7 | ||
| 2.5 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4.2 | ||
| 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 |
