National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Tampere United or HJS Akatemia that keep their silverware dream alive.
Tampere United form and stats
Tampere United's last game was hosting Haka Juniorit and winning 6-0. As mentioned above, Tampere "killed" Haka Juniorit in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
Before that game, the 6-0 home victory against Haka Juniorit.This is expected to be a close game, with Tampere United perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Tampere United as a small favourite), we find six games. Tampere United has won zero of these, drawn two and lost four.
With the first game of the season soon underway, it's time to look at the results from the Tampere United friendly games in pre-season: Tampere played one friendly, won 0, drew 0 and lost 1. If you are really into statistics you might appreciate knowing that Tampere United scored 3 goals and conceded 5 in these one game.
HJS Akatemia form and stats
HJS Akatemia won their last game, 4-3 versus PIF played at home. A crazy, crazy game with heaps of goals last time out for HJS Akatemia, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that game, will this game be as much fun?
Ahead of that match was the Kakkonen away draw versus Ilves II that ended 1-1.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with HJS Akatemia playing away and similar expectations, we found six relevant matches. Results were two Akatemia wins, one draw and three defeats.
Head 2 Head
Tampere United missing players
HJS Akatemia missing players
| Tampere United | HJS Akatemia | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 22 | 13 | Won | W | 4 | 11 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 124 | 79 | Scored | S | 16 | 44 | ||
| 22 | 9 | Conceded | C | 19 | 40 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 92% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 72% | ||
| 72% | 92% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 40% | ||
| 72% | 92% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 60% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 84% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 12% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 8% | ||
| 6.1 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 5.8 | ||
| 2 | 2.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.4 | 3.8 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 21.2 | 22.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.6 | 13 | ||
| 11.4 | 12.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 5.7 | ||
| 48% | 49% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 31% | ||
| 5.7 | 5.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.6 | 9.8 | ||
| 2.4 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4.4 | ||
