Länsikenttä tekonurmi: JBK vs GBK Kakkonen preview

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Competition: Finland Kakkonen
Competition: Wed 12.August
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Länsikenttä tekonurmi (1000 seats)

JBK will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 2 points behind GBK.

JBK have less rest than GBK in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Kakkonen game only four days ago. This match was also played here at Länsikenttä tekonurmi. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, GBK have had more rest.

This pitch has artifical turf, which is not GBK's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf GBK have performed like this: Played 23 matches resulting in 11 wins, 8 draws and 4 defeats with the goal stats 45-28 (scored/conceded).

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JBK form and stats

3-0-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Kakkonen numbers at home for JBK so far this season.

The JBK goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 230 minutes without conceding a goal in the Kakkonen.

The JBK supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Kiisto in Kakkonen and win 1-0. 0-0 away at VIFK before that.

JBK are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Länsikenttä tekonurmi in their league games, having scored an impressive 10 goals in 4 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 7 goals have been conceded.

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GBK form and stats

It's gone fairly well in the Kakkonen away games so far for GBK, who have the the best goal difference (+13) in Kakkonen, with six points collected from three matches.

D. Carlsson (2), P. Jokihaara (2) and L. Smith scored in GBK's previous match, the home game against VIFK that ended 8-0. Prior to that match, the GBK manager C. Corcoran faced defeat when travelling to Kiisto and losing 0-1.

As mentioned above, GBK was the only team on the pitch versus VIFK in their previous game, winning 8-0. This could be a tougher task.

GBK find the net regularly in their away games. 4 goals from 3 away fixtures in the league. GBK are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 1 goal away.

Head 2 Head

JBK and GBK have met before this season: GBK - JBK 1-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two JBK victories, three draws and five GBK wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

GBKP. Jokihaara
P. Jokihaara
4 goals
GBKD. Carlsson
D. Carlsson
4 goals
JBKR. Korkea-Aho
R. Korkea-Aho
3 goals

JBK missing players

GBK missing players

JBK GBK
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
8 4 1 Played P 1 3 7
3 3 0 Won W 1 2 4
3 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
2 1 1 Lost L 0 1 1
12 10 2 Scored S 1 4 17
11 7 3 Conceded C 0 1 4
75% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
62% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 33% 71%
50% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 43%
50% 75% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 29%
25% 50% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 14%
62% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 43%
38% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 67% 43%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 14%
 
3 4.8 3 Corners for (avg) C F 2 1 3.4
3.4 3.8 4 Corners against (avg) C A 4 2.7 3.3
1.4 2 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1 1.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
74 51 8 Total Shots T S 6 27 50
36 26 3 Shots on Target S O 3 13 31
33% 38% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 31% 55%
Key stats in Kakkonen this season:
  • GBK has the fewest conceded goals (1) away
  • GBK has the most scored goals in the first half (10)
  • GBK has the the best goal difference (+13)
  • GBK have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • GBK have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • GBK have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • GBK haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • JBK have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • JBK have scored at least twice as many goals at home as GBK have scored away.
  • JBK have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • JBK have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • JBK haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 JS Hercules 8 5 2 1 18 7 4 3 0 1 11 3 4 2 2 0 7 4 11 17
2 JIPPO 7 5 2 0 13 2 3 2 1 0 6 0 4 3 1 0 7 2 11 17
3 GBK 7 4 2 1 17 4 4 2 2 0 13 3 3 2 0 1 4 1 13 14
4 JJK 8 4 2 2 15 12 3 2 1 0 5 2 5 2 1 2 10 10 3 14
5 Vaajakoski 8 4 1 3 15 14 4 3 0 1 9 6 4 1 1 2 6 8 1 13
6 KuFu-98 8 4 1 3 18 19 5 3 1 1 13 8 3 1 0 2 5 11 -1 13
7 JBK 8 3 3 2 12 11 4 3 0 1 10 7 4 0 3 1 2 4 1 12
8 RoPS II 8 3 1 4 14 16 4 1 1 2 5 7 4 2 0 2 9 9 -2 10
9 OLS 8 3 1 4 11 15 4 1 1 2 5 6 4 2 0 2 6 9 -4 10
10 PS Kemi 8 2 0 6 13 17 4 2 0 2 10 5 4 0 0 4 3 12 -4 6
11 VIFK 8 1 1 6 8 24 4 0 1 3 3 8 4 1 0 3 5 16 -16 4
12 Kiisto 8 1 0 7 6 19 4 1 0 3 4 11 4 0 0 4 2 8 -13 3

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.