Trying to decrease the distance up to the top sides is on the list when these mid-table sides battle it out. Both will be trying to better their league table standing, JS Hercules in 5th and RoPS in 6th position.
- JS Hercules have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- JS Hercules have scored at least twice as many goals at home as RoPS have scored away.
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.
JS Hercules form and stats
19 points is a decent return from 8 Kakkonen games here at Oulu-lehti Areena for JS Hercules. The data says 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
JS Hercules's previous game was also played at home, ending 4-0 versus RoPS (placed 6th). The home side are looking to build on that result. As mentioned above, JS Hercules "killed" RoPS in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Kraft (2-4).The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Hercules handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (20 in 8 games), JS Hercules's attacking play is working. Hercules are not conceding a lot of goals here at Oulu-lehti Areena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 8 matches.
RoPS form and stats
As the visiting team in Kakkonen matches, RoPS have produced an overall stat of 2-2-3 so far.
The attacking players of RoPS have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 196 minutes.
RoPS play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-4 to JS Hercules (placed 5th). RoPS lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.
A 0-1 loss hosting OLS before that.We have checked recent matches where RoPS have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 10 games were 0 victories, 4 draws and 6 defeats.
RoPS have scored 8 goals on their travels this season, from 7 away games in the league. RoPS have conceded 12 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Hercules - RoPS 4-0 was the output when these two sides last played each other, also in this season. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's one JS Hercules victory, one draw and zero RoPS wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  E. Venäläinen 12 goals |  J. Vääräniemi 11 goals | A. Savolainen 6 goals |
JS Hercules missing players
RoPS missing players
| JS Hercules | RoPS | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 8 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 28 | 20 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 29 |
| 20 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 12 | 24 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 73% | 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 87% |
| 60% | 62% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 43% | 60% |
| 53% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 43% | 53% |
| 27% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 20% |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 43% | 60% |
| 40% | 62% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 20% |
| 27% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 20% |
| 5.8 | 6.2 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| 4.6 | 4.1 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4.4 | 3.8 |
| 1.5 | 1.4 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.1 | 13.5 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 6.4 | 8.5 |
| 5.1 | 6.6 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 3 | 4.5 |
| 36% | 38% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 40% | 47% |
| 8.1 | 7.2 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 15.4 | 12.4 |
| 4.2 | 3.8 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 7.6 | 5.9 |
- JS Hercules have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- JS Hercules have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- JS Hercules have scored at least twice as many goals at home as RoPS have scored away.
- JS Hercules haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- RoPS 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 | JJK | 15 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 30 | 39 |
| 2 | VIFK | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 30 |
| 3 | Kraft | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 28 |
| 4 | OLS | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 26 |
| 5 | JS Hercules | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 28 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 26 |
| 6 | RoPS | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 29 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 21 |
| 7 | Vaajakoski | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 11 | -1 | 19 |
| 8 | GBK | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 33 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 21 | -11 | 15 |
| 9 | KajHa | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 23 | 35 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 19 | -12 | 13 |
| 10 | JBK | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -12 | 12 |
| 11 | OTP | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -12 | 11 |
| 12 | FC Komeetat | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 19 | -23 | 8 |
