JBK will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind JS Hercules.
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.
JBK form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Länsikenttä tekonurmi as JBK, who have the most points (15) at home in Kakkonen, have scored 14 goals to get 15 points from 7 games. The overall stats in the Kakkonen are 5-0-2 (wins-draws-losses).
The JBK fans got no joy from their last match, a Kakkonen game also here at Länsikenttä tekonurmi: A 0-2 defeat against JS Hercules (placed 2nd). 1-1 away at GBK before that.
This is expected to be a close game, with JBK perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with JBK as a small favourite), we find seven games. JBK has won two of these, drawn one and lost four.
The JBK manager J. Wargh has got the team scoring with 14 from 7 home games in the league. JBK have conceded 11 from these games.
JS Hercules form and stats
JS Hercules's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed JS Hercules collect 14 points from their 7 away matches in the Kakkonen. 4 victories and 2 draws have created these points (and only 1 defeat). Hercules has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.
180 minutes! That's how long the JS Hercules goalkeeper and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
Two travels in a row for Hercules, whose manager M. Isokangas could celebrate last time after the Kakkonen win against JBK. Ahead of that match was the victory versus RoPS II at their stadium, the result 1-0.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found three similar matches played by JS Hercules in our archives, and the results are: one win for JS Hercules, zero draws and two defeats.
Hercules are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 11 times in 7 away games so far. As opposed to that, Hercules have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: JBK - JS Hercules 0-2. JBK-JS Hercules H2H statistics last seven meetings regardless of arena: JBK one win, JS Hercules five wins, one draw. five of these seven matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  P. Welling 9 goals |  K. Larsson 6 goals | M. Adeniran 6 goals |
JBK missing players
JS Hercules missing players
| JBK | JS Hercules | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 6 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 19 | 14 | 4 | Scored | S | 4 | 11 | 24 |
| 16 | 11 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 8 | 14 |
| 85% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 69% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 92% |
| 38% | 57% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 43% | 54% |
| 38% | 57% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 29% | 31% |
| 23% | 43% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 15% |
| 54% | 57% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 71% | 62% |
| 38% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 31% |
| 23% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.1 | 1.4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 115 | 72 | 10 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 53 | 109 |
| 50 | 35 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 7 | 27 | 60 |
| 38% | 40% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 57% | 41% | 40% |
- JBK has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Kakkonen
- JBK has the most points (15) at home in Kakkonen
- JBK have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- JBK haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- JS Hercules has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Kakkonen
- JS Hercules have scored in all their away matches so far.
- JS Hercules haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | JIPPO | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 28 |
| 2 | JS Hercules | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 26 |
| 3 | KuFu-98 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 30 | 25 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 23 |
| 4 | RoPS II | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 23 |
| 5 | JBK | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 22 |
| 6 | JJK | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 20 |
| 7 | GBK | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| 8 | OLS | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -5 | 16 |
| 9 | Vaajakoski | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -3 | 15 |
| 10 | PS Kemi | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 23 | 27 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 20 | -4 | 15 |
| 11 | VIFK | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 18 | -14 | 10 |
| 12 | Kiisto | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -16 | 7 |