National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's VPS or VJS that keep their silverware dream alive.
It should be mentioned that VJS play their home matches on grass, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on artifical turf. Does it matter? Recent statistics for VJS on artifical turf are 3 victories, 1 draw and 5 defeats from nine games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 9-9. You can compare this with overall results below.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Kakkonen game only four days ago.
VPS form and stats
VPS was eliminated in the 8th finals last season in the Finland Cup.VPS have collected 1 point from their Veikkausliiga home games so far after 0-1-3.
VPS's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Inter Turku.
Preceding that match was a Veikkausliiga defeat to SJK (0-1).There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for VPS as they are travelling to their away game against Mariehamn in the Veikkausliiga. That match is four days after this one.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for VPS here at Elisa Stadion in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (3 from 4 games). Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 6 goals have been conceded.
VJS form and stats
VJS was sent out of Finland Cup in the 8th finals last season.VJS go into this game after a win, the home game against Klubi-04 that ended 1-0. Ahmed-Nur came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Klubi-04 last time out, making the manager Kujanen feel like a tactical genius.
hometeam won
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the VJS manager Kujanen as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against SalPa.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  K. Multanen 2 goals |  V. Tuomala 2 goals | K. Jmaali 2 goals |
VPS missing players
VJS missing players
| VPS | VJS | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 11 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 5 | 10 | ||
| 56 | 15 | Scored | S | 22 | 44 | ||
| 32 | 11 | Conceded | C | 18 | 38 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 58% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 80% | ||
| 64% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 68% | ||
| 52% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 56% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 24% | ||
| 4.1 | 4.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.8 | ||
| 5.1 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.1 | 5.8 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10.6 | 9.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.2 | 10.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.9 | 5.2 | ||
| 49% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 34% | ||
| 9 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.3 | 9.2 | ||
| 3.2 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | KuPS | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 25 |
| 2 | HJK | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 25 |
| 3 | Honka | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| 4 | Inter Turku | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | Oulu | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
| 6 | Ilves | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Haka | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 10 |
| 8 | SJK | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -7 | 10 |
| 9 | Lahti | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | -7 | 8 |
| 10 | VPS | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 11 | Mariehamn | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 12 | HIFK | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -8 | 3 |
