National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's SJK or Oulu that keep their silverware dream alive.
SJK's stadium, OmaSP Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. Oulu 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 Oulu when playing on artifical turf; 5 wins, 0 draws and 7 losses from twelve matches. They have scored {19 goals} in these games and conceded 20.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
SJK form and stats
Last season, SJK's Finland Cup journey ended in the 6th round.When playing at home in the Veikkausliiga, SJK have managed 3 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games.
The SJK fans enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Ilves and win 1-0. The host team have an in-form goalscorer in Moreno, having bagged a goal in three consecutive matches.
Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Inter Turku.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does SJK handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 8 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
SJK has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches. SJK are not conceding a lot of goals here at OmaSP Stadion in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 4 matches.
Oulu form and stats
Oulu was sent out of Finland Cup in the 6th round last season.2 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Oulu playing as the away team in the Veikkausliiga this season.
Oulu go into this game after a win, the home game against VPS that ended 2-1.
A loss against KuPS was the result prior to that, in a Veikkausliiga home game.Oulu are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 6 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 14 matches.
The travelling fans enjoy Oulu's attacking play in away games, having scored 7 goals in 4 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the former ten meetings): SJK won six games, one match ended with a draw and Oulu got three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Coffey 4 goals |  V. Tikkanen 1 goals |
SJK missing players
Oulu missing players
| SJK | Oulu | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | ||
| 31 | 17 | Scored | S | 25 | 44 | ||
| 25 | 12 | Conceded | C | 14 | 28 | ||
| 88% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 64% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 52% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 44% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 24% | ||
| 40% | 31% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 24% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.6 | 5.7 | ||
| 5.3 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.6 | ||
| 2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 9.9 | 12.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.1 | 10.7 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.8 | ||
| 26% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 49% | 38% | ||
| 8.4 | 8.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 10 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.9 | ||
| 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 |
