Perhaps a welcome break from league football as SJK-j Apollo & VPS face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Finland Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Veikkausliiga. That game was also an away game, at Oulu. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
SJK-j Apollo form and stats
Last season their Finland Cup adventure ended in the 3rd round.Apollo's previous match was a Finland Cup game also played at their home, ending 7-1 vs PonPa. The home team hope to to build on that result.
Preceding that match, a home win against ABC in the Finland Cup.
VPS form and stats
VPS's mission in Finland Cup last season failed in the 6th round.It's not happening yet for VPS on their Veikkausliiga travels, with zero points from their first 2 away games. Maybe today will be different?
There might be some fixture complaints from VPS as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, 1-2 against Oulu.
Before that, VPS secured a home win against Mariehamn with the score 2-1.{1 goals} so far away for VPS, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 6. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  K. Multanen 2 goals | J. Pikkarainen 1 goals | S. Alanko 1 goals |
SJK-j Apollo missing players
VPS missing players
| SJK-j Apollo | VPS | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 6 | 5 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 27 | 21 | Scored | S | 24 | 39 | ||
| 14 | 14 | Conceded | C | 18 | 27 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 76% | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 56% | ||
| 83% | 80% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 28% | ||
| 83% | 80% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 12% | ||
| 67% | 80% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 52% | ||
| 33% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 32% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 28% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 4.3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.4 | 6.2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 2.3 | ||
| 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 55% | 60% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.5 | 7.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 3 | ||
| 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 |
