Perhaps a welcome break from league football as VPS & OTP face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Finland Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
4-3-2 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for OTP when playing away games on artifical turf, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those nine matches are 12-10 (scored/conceded).
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.
VPS form and stats
Last season, VPS's Finland Cup journey ended in the 6th round.Overall Veikkausliiga results at home this season for VPS are 1-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).
VPS's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus Ilves.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Haka that finished 2-2.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for VPS as they are travelling to their away game against KTP in the Veikkausliiga. That match is four days after this one.
VPS have scored {2 goals} here in 5 league matches, a depressing statistic. From these home matches, VPS have conceded only 4 goals.
OTP form and stats
OTP's previous game was their home loss versus OLS (0-1). OTP were so close to getting something from the game against OLS, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal one minutes into overtime.
Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to JBK.OTP are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found 22 matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were 10 wins, 3 draws and 9 defeats. Of the defeats, 6 games were lost by at least two goals margin.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  K. Multanen 2 goals |  B. Adebowale 2 goals | B. Simsek 2 goals |
VPS missing players
OTP missing players
| VPS | OTP | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 5 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 12 | ||
| 47 | 15 | Scored | S | 17 | 36 | ||
| 28 | 10 | Conceded | C | 22 | 41 | ||
| 88% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 80% | ||
| 60% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 77% | 72% | ||
| 32% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 20% | ||
| 28% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 28% | ||
| 3.1 | 2.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.5 | ||
| 4 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.6 | ||
| 1.2 | 0.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 6.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 10.3 | ||
| 2 | 1.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 4.7 | ||
| 87% | 65% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 31% | ||
| 6.8 | 6.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.5 | 8.4 | ||
| 3 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.1 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | SJK | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 20 |
| 2 | HJK | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 19 |
| 3 | KuPS | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 19 |
| 4 | Oulu | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | -2 | 14 |
| 5 | Honka | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| 6 | Ilves | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Haka | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 9 |
| 8 | KTP | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -5 | 9 |
| 9 | Inter Turku | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -1 | 7 |
| 10 | Mariehamn | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 11 | Lahti | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 6 |
| 12 | VPS | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 6 |
