Kakkonen preview: Can JJK edge out victory against OTP?

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Competition: Finland Kakkonen
Competition: Tue 05.October
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Harjun stadion (3000 seats)

JJK have been busy practising for another game following their 3-0 result vs GBK, a match they learned a lot from. What will happen against OTP?

Insights:
  • JJK have the most clean sheets (11) in Kakkonen
  • OTP have the most points from losing position (12) 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.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting OTP have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 3-1-3 (win-draw-loss) from seven matches.

JJK are battling for top spots and have everything to play for.

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JJK form and stats

21 points is a decent return from 9 Kakkonen games here at Harjun stadion for JJK. The data says 6 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses. JJK has a nice streak going on as they have played twelve consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the JBK defeat 93 days ago.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 307 minutes.

It's back home for JJK, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating GBK away with the result 3-0.

Before that match, a win away at RoPS II.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does JJK handle that role? We have found four games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, zero draws and two defeats.

The JJK manager S. Clark has got the team scoring with 20 from 9 home games in the league. As for guarding their own goal, JJK have only let in 3 goals at home.

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OTP form and stats

3 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of OTP playing as the away team in the Kakkonen this season.

OTP might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. JS Hercules proved too strong as OTP slumped to a 2-4 defeat in front of their own fans at Heinäpään tekonurmi. A stark raving crazy game with an abundance of goals last time out for OTP, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as full of joy?

A 2-2 draw at GBK's stadium before that.

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

OTP are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 16 times in 9 away games so far. As for defending, OTP rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 14 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The former H2H game ended OTP - JJK 0-0, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

OTPC. Chukwu
C. Chukwu
7 goals
JJKR. Saastamoinen
R. Saastamoinen
6 goals
OTPA. Ibiyomi
A. Ibiyomi
6 goals

JJK missing players

OTP missing players

JJK OTP
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 9 2 Played P 3 9 18
10 6 1 Won W 1 3 8
7 3 1 Drew D 0 3 5
2 0 0 Lost L 2 3 5
35 20 2 Scored S 4 16 35
10 3 0 Conceded C 4 14 24
84% 89% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
74% 78% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 89% 89%
37% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 67% 61%
26% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 56% 56%
16% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 22% 22%
37% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 67% 56%
58% 67% 100% Clean Sheets C S 33% 22% 33%
21% 11% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 11% 17%
 
6.1 7.3 9 Corners for (avg) C F 2.3 4.5 4.6
4.2 4.3 6 Corners against (avg) C A 6.3 4.8 4.6
0.9 0.9 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.5 2.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.3 12.4 16.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9.7 12.1 13.2
4.6 5.8 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 5.6 5.9
40% 38% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 31% 32%
Key stats in Kakkonen this season:
  • JJK have not yet lost a game at home.
  • JJK have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • JJK have the most clean sheets (11) in Kakkonen
  • JJK have the most clean sheets (6) at home in Kakkonen
  • JJK have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • OTP have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • OTP have the most points from losing position (12) in Kakkonen
  • OTP 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 SJK Akatemia 21 16 3 2 66 26 10 9 1 0 40 12 11 7 2 2 26 14 40 51
2 JS Hercules 21 12 4 5 47 22 11 6 2 3 21 7 10 6 2 2 26 15 25 40
3 JJK 19 10 7 2 35 10 9 6 3 0 20 3 10 4 4 2 15 7 25 37
4 Vaajakoski 20 9 7 4 30 18 10 4 5 1 18 10 10 5 2 3 12 8 12 34
5 OTP 18 8 5 5 35 24 9 5 2 2 19 10 9 3 3 3 16 14 11 29
6 JBK 20 8 3 9 33 42 10 6 2 2 19 11 10 2 1 7 14 31 -9 27
7 OLS 20 7 5 8 28 29 10 3 3 4 14 12 10 4 2 4 14 17 -1 26
8 RoPS II 20 7 4 9 31 36 10 4 1 5 15 17 10 3 3 4 16 19 -5 25
9 PS Kemi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 VIFK 20 8 1 11 33 44 10 2 0 8 13 23 10 6 1 3 20 21 -11 25
10 Kraft 20 6 2 12 28 44 10 4 2 4 21 16 10 2 0 8 7 28 -16 20
11 GBK 19 3 4 12 15 47 10 1 2 7 9 30 9 2 2 5 6 17 -32 13
12 Kemi City 20 2 1 17 18 57 10 1 0 9 9 30 10 1 1 8 9 27 -39 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.