Ilves II vs SalPa: Soccer match preview

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Competition: Finland Kakkonen
Competition: Sun 28.August
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Kauppi 2 Tekonurmi (1000 seats)

Playing at home is safe and good for Ilves II, but SalPa are fully bent and capable to go home as winners. How will it turn out?

Insights:
  • Ilves II have the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in Kakkonen
  • SalPa is in the best form (5-1-0) in Kakkonen

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.

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Ilves II form and stats

Overall Kakkonen stats at home this season for Ilves II are 5-2-3 (wins-draws-losses).

Ilves drew their last game, also a home match. SalPa (placed 2nd) was the opponent, 0-0 the score.

A 1-1 draw away before that, with MuSa the opponent.

Ilves II have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Kauppi 2 Tekonurmi with 18 goals in 10 league matches. Ilves have conceded 11 in these home matches.

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SalPa form and stats

4-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for SalPa in their Kakkonen matches away.

The SalPa goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 226 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

SalPa are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Ilves II (placed 10th).

Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at VJS.

The visiting SalPa have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 9 games. As for defending, SalPa rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Ilves II and SalPa have faced off already this season: SalPa - Ilves II 1-2. Head to head data (for the former six meetings): Ilves won three games, one match ended with a tie and SalPa have two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / three

Top Goalscorers

SalPaE. Heinonen
E. Heinonen
10 goals
SalPaJ. Fagerström
J. Fagerström
6 goals

Ilves II missing players

SalPa missing players

Ilves II SalPa
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 11 3 Played P 3 10 19
7 5 1 Won W 3 4 11
4 3 0 Drew D 0 2 2
9 3 2 Lost L 0 4 6
30 18 3 Scored S 7 13 39
36 11 4 Conceded C 2 15 28
90% 82% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 95%
90% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 89%
60% 45% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 40% 68%
45% 27% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 40% 42%
25% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 30% 32%
65% 55% 33% BTTS BTTS 33% 50% 58%
20% 36% 33% Clean Sheets C S 67% 40% 37%
25% 27% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 11%
 
5.5 5.2 5 Corners for (avg) C F 5.3 4 4.5
5.1 4.8 7 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.5 4
1.7 1.8 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.4 2.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.8 10.8 11.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.7 9.6 9.2
4.3 4.6 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4 4
36% 35% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 78% 32% 51%
 
11 11.1 13.3 Shots against (avg) S A 3.3 8.5 7.1
4.6 4 4.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 4.2 3.6
Key stats in Kakkonen this season:
  • Ilves II have the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in Kakkonen
  • SalPa have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (14) in Kakkonen
  • SalPa is in the best form (5-1-0) 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 I-Kissat 20 11 4 5 53 40 10 6 2 2 24 19 10 5 2 3 29 21 13 37
2 SalPa 18 11 1 6 39 28 9 7 0 2 26 13 9 4 1 4 13 15 11 34
3 Jazz 20 9 5 6 49 38 10 4 3 3 24 19 10 5 2 3 25 19 11 32
4 Honka Akatemia 20 9 5 6 41 31 10 4 3 3 24 19 10 5 2 3 17 12 10 32
5 HJS Akatemia 19 10 2 7 30 28 9 7 0 2 20 15 10 3 2 5 10 13 2 32
6 Tampere United 19 9 3 7 36 31 9 4 1 4 20 17 10 5 2 3 16 14 5 30
7 GrIFK 19 9 3 7 32 29 9 5 1 3 12 10 10 4 2 4 20 19 3 30
8 Klubi-04 19 8 5 6 40 36 10 7 2 1 26 14 9 1 3 5 14 22 4 29
9 EPS 20 7 4 9 28 27 10 5 2 3 17 12 10 2 2 6 11 15 1 25
10 Ilves II 19 7 3 9 30 36 10 5 2 3 18 11 9 2 1 6 12 25 -6 24
11 MuSa 19 6 4 9 33 32 9 3 3 3 14 12 10 3 1 6 19 20 1 22
12 VJS 19 6 2 11 30 37 10 5 2 3 17 14 9 1 0 8 13 23 -7 20
13 KaaPo 19 2 1 16 17 65 10 1 0 9 6 35 9 1 1 7 11 30 -48 7

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.