Kakkonen preview: Can JS Hercules edge out victory against VIFK?

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Competition: Finland Kakkonen
Competition: Sun 31.July
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Oulu-lehti Areena (4000 seats)

Sit down for a show! Today's leading antagonists are JS Hercules and VIFK, victory is the prize and 90 minutes the duration.

Insights:
  • JS Hercules have not yet lost a game at home.
  • VIFK have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Kakkonen

This stadium has artifical turf, which is not VIFK's familiar surface at their own pitch. When appearing on artifical turf VIFK have performed like this: Played nine matches with the outcome 3 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats with the goal data 11-18 (scored/conceded).

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Kakkonen game only four days ago.

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JS Hercules form and stats

This stadium, Oulu-lehti Areena, has been a fortress for JS Hercules in the Kakkonen so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 5-1-0. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for JS Hercules, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.

JS Hercules enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at OTP's place. The match ended 3-2 with Bohui, Vääräniemi and Korkala scoring.

Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against GBK.

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.

JS Hercules are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Oulu-lehti Areena in their league games, having scored an impressive 16 goals in 6 matches. From these home matches, JS Hercules have conceded only 4 goals.

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VIFK form and stats

Playing away, VIFK have won 3 games, drawn 2 and suffered 1 defeat in the Kakkonen this season.

VIFK won their last game, 1-0 versus JBK played at home.

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting OLS.

VIFK are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. From a total of 5 matches.

VIFK have scored 7 goals on their travels this season, from 6 away games in the league. 7 goals have been conceded by VIFK in these games.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two sides meet on the pitch this campaign, as the records show this recent match: VIFK - JS Hercules 1-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (JS Hercules wins - draws - VIFK wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

JS HerculesJ. Vääräniemi
J. Vääräniemi
11 goals
VIFKL. Etoka
L. Etoka
5 goals
JS HerculesC. Bohui
C. Bohui
3 goals

JS Hercules missing players

VIFK missing players

JS Hercules VIFK
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
12 6 0 Played P 2 6 12
7 5 0 Won W 1 3 7
2 1 0 Drew D 0 2 3
3 0 0 Lost L 1 1 2
22 16 0 Scored S 1 7 19
14 4 0 Conceded C 4 7 11
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
67% 83% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 58%
58% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 33% 33%
50% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 33%
25% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
33% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 33%
42% 67% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 50% 50%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 17% 17%
 
5.5 6.3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5.2 4.7
4.4 3.3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 6 5.7
1.5 1.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.8 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
10 13 0 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8 11.3
5.1 7.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.7 5.4
36% 37% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 32% 29%
 
7.8 7.2 0 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 10.5 9.4
4 3.7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 4.3 3.6
Key stats in Kakkonen this season:
  • JS Hercules have not yet lost a game at home.
  • 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 VIFK have scored away.
  • JS Hercules have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • JS Hercules haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • VIFK have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Kakkonen
  • VIFK have the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Kakkonen
  • VIFK have the most clean sheets (3) away in Kakkonen
  • VIFK 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 13 10 3 0 33 9 7 5 2 0 19 3 6 5 1 0 14 6 24 33
2 VIFK 12 7 3 2 19 11 6 4 1 1 12 4 6 3 2 1 7 7 8 24
3 OLS 13 7 2 4 25 15 6 3 0 3 9 8 7 4 2 1 16 7 10 23
4 JS Hercules 12 7 2 3 22 14 6 5 1 0 16 4 6 2 1 3 6 10 8 23
5 Kraft 13 6 4 3 18 14 8 3 3 2 9 6 5 3 1 1 9 8 4 22
6 RoPS 12 4 6 2 27 19 7 3 4 0 21 11 5 1 2 2 6 8 8 18
7 Vaajakoski 13 4 4 5 19 24 5 0 3 2 4 7 8 4 1 3 15 17 -5 16
8 JBK 13 3 3 7 19 25 6 2 1 3 13 11 7 1 2 4 6 14 -6 12
9 GBK 12 3 3 6 19 29 5 2 1 2 8 10 7 1 2 4 11 19 -10 12
10 KajHa 13 2 4 7 20 29 6 1 1 4 11 15 7 1 3 3 9 14 -9 10
11 OTP 12 2 2 8 13 23 7 1 0 6 7 16 5 1 2 2 6 7 -10 8
12 FC Komeetat 12 1 2 9 7 29 6 1 2 3 6 11 6 0 0 6 1 18 -22 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.