Kakkonen: Honka Akatemia expected to win home against SalPa

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Competition: Finland Kakkonen
Competition: Wed 28.July
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Tapiola 1 Tekonurmi (2000 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Honka Akatemia are in the 7th position while the guesting SalPa worry at 9th.

Insights:
  • Honka Akatemia have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • SalPa have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Kakkonen

Honka Akatemia's stadium, Tapiola 1 Tekonurmi, has a artifical turf surface. SalPa 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 SalPa when playing on artifical turf; 7 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses from 15 matches. They have scored 24 goals in these games and conceded 21.

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Honka Akatemia form and stats

Honka Akatemia must be fairly happy with 6 points from their first three Kakkonen games here at Tapiola 1 Tekonurmi.

Happy days for Akatemia in their previous game, a Kakkonen match away at Ilves II (placed 12th) that ended with a 4-2 victory. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

Preceding that match was a defeat to I-Kissat (2-3).

There will be little rest for Akatemia after this match as they are travelling to SalPa for a Kakkonen game in only three days.

Goals decide football matches and Akatemia are scoring many of them at home; 7 on target from 3 league matches. Honka Akatemia have conceded 3 in these home matches.

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SalPa form and stats

Things could have gone better for SalPa in their Kakkonen away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right.

SalPa are travelling again after losing away to EPS in their previous match (1-2).

A loss against VJS was the result prior to that, in a home game.

A quick return to home after this game, as SalPa are hosting Honka Akatemia in the Kakkonen only three days away.

SalPa have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 3 league away games 3 goals have been scored. SalPa are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 3 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Honka Akatemia one win, one draw and SalPa two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Honka AkatemiaI. Camara
I. Camara
3 goals
Honka AkatemiaH. Woivalin
H. Woivalin
2 goals
AkatemiaA. Ramström
A. Ramström
1 goals

Honka Akatemia missing players

SalPa missing players

Honka Akatemia SalPa
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
6 3 1 Played P 1 3 6
3 2 1 Won W 0 1 2
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
2 1 0 Lost L 1 1 2
12 7 4 Scored S 1 3 7
8 3 0 Conceded C 2 2 6
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 67% 83%
67% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 83%
67% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 33% 50%
67% 67% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 33% 67%
50% 67% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 67% 33%
17% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 17%
 
8.2 9.3 8 Corners for (avg) C F 6 5.7 6.5
3.5 3.3 2 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5.3 6
1.2 1.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.7 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.7 14.3 17 Shots (avg) S ( 11 10 8.8
5.8 7.7 12 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4 4
34% 30% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 25% 29%
Key stats in Kakkonen this season:
  • Honka Akatemia have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • SalPa have the fewest matches over the total-line (1) in Kakkonen
  • SalPa have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Kakkonen

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 PIF 7 4 2 1 16 10 4 2 1 1 10 6 3 2 1 0 6 4 6 14
2 GrIFK 8 4 1 3 19 13 4 1 0 3 6 9 4 3 1 0 13 4 6 13
3 HJS Akatemia 8 3 3 2 18 17 4 2 2 0 11 7 4 1 1 2 7 10 1 12
4 Jazz 7 3 2 2 13 8 4 2 1 1 9 5 3 1 1 1 4 3 5 11
5 EPS 7 3 2 2 11 6 4 2 1 1 8 4 3 1 1 1 3 2 5 11
6 I-Kissat 6 3 2 1 14 12 2 1 0 1 4 4 4 2 2 0 10 8 2 11
7 Honka Akatemia 6 3 1 2 12 8 3 2 0 1 7 3 3 1 1 1 5 5 4 10
8 KaaPo 5 2 2 1 9 7 2 0 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 0 8 4 2 8
9 SalPa 6 2 2 2 7 6 3 1 1 1 4 4 3 1 1 1 3 2 1 8
10 TPV 8 2 2 4 11 23 4 1 2 1 4 8 4 1 0 3 7 15 -12 8
11 VJS 6 1 1 4 6 12 2 0 1 1 2 5 4 1 0 3 4 7 -6 4
12 Ilves II 8 0 2 6 9 23 5 0 1 4 7 14 3 0 1 2 2 9 -14 2

Read more about Kakkonen

Kakkonen is the third highest level of football in Finland. It is divided into three groups based on geographical areas, each with twelve teams. Each club plays the others in the group twice for a total of 22 fixtures to create a final league table. The two top teams in each division then enter a promotion playoff.