Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Tampere United & Inter Turku face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Finland Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Inter Turku have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 7-3-9 (win-draw-loss) from 19 matches.
It's no vacation for neither Tampere United nor Inter Turku 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.
Tampere United form and stats
Tampere participated in Finland Cup the last season, where they reached the 3rd round.Tampere United's last game was hosting P-Iirot and winning 2-1.
Heartbreak before that as Tampere United lost 1-3 at Ilves II's place.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Tampere as they are travelling to their away game against PIF in the Kakkonen. That match is four days after this one.
Inter Turku form and stats
They also participated in Finland Cup last season. This ended in the final.1 win, 0 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Inter Turku playing as the away team in the Veikkausliiga this season.
Inter Turku lost away at HJK (1-4) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick.
Prior to that match, the Inter Turku manager Wiss faced defeat when travelling to SJK and losing 1-2.Inter have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 4 league away games 5 goals have been scored. Inter Turku have conceded 9 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - three - one (Tampere United wins - draws - Inter Turku wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Järvelä 2 goals |   A. Sejdiu 2 goals | J. Georg 1 goals |
Tampere United missing players
Inter Turku missing players
| Tampere United | Inter Turku | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 16 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Won | W | 6 | 11 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 48 | 25 | Scored | S | 20 | 34 | ||
| 45 | 21 | Conceded | C | 25 | 36 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 88% | 80% | ||
| 76% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 56% | 56% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 19% | 24% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 19% | 16% | ||
| 76% | 83% | BTTS | BTTS | 56% | 56% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Clean Sheets | C S | 19% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | ||
| 4.8 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.6 | 5.4 | ||
| 5.1 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 4.7 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.4 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 10.5 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.8 | 9.5 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.5 | ||
| 41% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 31% | ||
| 10.5 | 10.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 8.8 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 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 |
