Evenly matched teams: JBK vs Vaajakoski match preview

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Competition: Finland Kakkonen
Competition: Sun 17.July
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Länsikenttä tekonurmi (1000 seats)

Loyal fans at Länsikenttä tekonurmi haven’t witnessed many victories this season, with JBK withering away in the 11th place. The visiting Vaajakoski will believe to defend their higher league spot in this one.

Insights:
  • JBK have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Kakkonen
  • Vaajakoski have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Vaajakoski have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 5-3-2 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches.

This promises to be an exciting game with lots of action and excitement as both contenders are well refreshed since they last saw competitive action. Let's go!

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JBK form and stats

When playing at home in the Kakkonen, JBK have managed 0 wins, 1 draw and suffered 3 defeats from 4 games.

No payout for JBK in their previous match, an away game at GBK that ended in defeat 1-2.

Ahead of that match, JBK lost 1-2 at home to Kraft.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how JBK have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 10 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 3 and lost 4.

Goals keep flowing in this club's league matches, with 8 in a row seeing at least three goals (over 2.5).

JBK has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches.

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Vaajakoski form and stats

3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Vaajakoski playing as the away team in the Kakkonen this season. Vaajakoski love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.

Vaajakoski played 1-1 against RoPS in their previous match.

Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs VIFK.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 5 similar matches played by Vaajakoski in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Vaajakoski, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

After this away game Vaajakoski return home for a Kakkonen game against GBK. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Vaajakoski has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 10 goals from 6 games. Vaajakoski's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 10 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): JBK four wins, three draws and Vaajakoski three victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

JBKJ. Uwaegbulam
J. Uwaegbulam
5 goals
VaajakoskiM. Sarlin
M. Sarlin
3 goals
JBKO. Kennedy
O. Kennedy
2 goals

JBK missing players

Vaajakoski missing players

JBK Vaajakoski
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 4 0 Played P 3 6 10
1 0 0 Won W 2 3 3
3 1 0 Drew D 1 1 4
5 3 0 Lost L 0 2 3
11 5 0 Scored S 6 10 12
19 8 0 Conceded C 3 10 13
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 80%
89% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 83% 50%
33% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 50% 30%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
89% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 83% 70%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 10%
11% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 30%
 
4.8 6.2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 5.3 3.7 4.8
3.5 3.5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 3.3 4.5 4.2
2.2 2.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.2 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
10.8 13.8 0 Shots (avg) S ( 15.3 12 11.4
3.9 4.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7 5 4.2
29% 28% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 33% 29%
 
8.4 7.8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 8.7 10 9.1
5 4.8 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 5.2 4.3
Key stats in Kakkonen this season:
  • All of JBK's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • All of Vaajakoski's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • JBK have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • JBK have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • JBK have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • JBK have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Kakkonen
  • JBK have the fewest matches under the total-line (0) in Kakkonen
  • JBK have the fewest points (1) at home in Kakkonen
  • JBK have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • JBK have yet to win a game at home.
  • JBK haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Vaajakoski have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Vaajakoski have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Vaajakoski have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Vaajakoski haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 JJK 11 8 3 0 29 9 6 4 2 0 17 3 5 4 1 0 12 6 20 27
2 OLS 11 6 1 4 21 14 5 2 0 3 6 8 6 4 1 1 15 6 7 19
3 Kraft 10 5 4 1 15 9 6 2 3 1 6 4 4 3 1 0 9 5 6 19
4 JS Hercules 10 5 2 3 17 12 5 4 1 0 14 4 5 1 1 3 3 8 5 17
5 VIFK 9 5 2 2 13 10 3 2 0 1 6 3 6 3 2 1 7 7 3 17
6 RoPS 11 3 6 2 21 16 6 2 4 0 15 8 5 1 2 2 6 8 5 15
7 Vaajakoski 10 3 4 3 12 13 4 0 3 1 2 3 6 3 1 2 10 10 -1 13
8 KajHa 10 2 4 4 16 19 5 1 1 3 10 13 5 1 3 1 6 6 -3 10
9 GBK 10 2 3 5 15 25 5 2 1 2 8 10 5 0 2 3 7 15 -10 9
10 OTP 11 2 2 7 11 20 6 1 0 5 5 13 5 1 2 2 6 7 -9 8
11 JBK 9 1 3 5 11 19 4 0 1 3 5 8 5 1 2 2 6 11 -8 6
12 FC Komeetat 10 1 2 7 7 22 6 1 2 3 6 11 4 0 0 4 1 11 -15 5

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.