Home advantage could prove decisive in OLS - GBK battle

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Finland Kakkonen
Competition: Sun 14.May
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Heinäpään tekonurmi (4000 seats)

This might well be yet another absorbing clash at Heinäpään tekonurmi in the Kakkonen. OLS is in 11th place and host GBK in 2nd position. Learn more about the match here!

OLS's stadium, Heinäpään tekonurmi, has a artifical turf surface. GBK have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for GBK when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 3 draws and 11 losses from 15 matches. They have scored {14 goals} in these games and conceded 38.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for OLS and GBK.

W D W D D

OLS form and stats

The first Kakkonen game here at Heinäpään tekonurmi resulted in a draw. Last season OLS's home game statistics were 0 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat from 1 games.

OLS's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-0 versus GBK (placed 2nd). The home side are looking to build on that result.

3-3 away at JBK before that.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how OLS have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 7 games) they have won 3 times, drawn 0 and lost 4.

Early season league goal statistics from OLS's 1 home game: {1 goals}, 1 conceded.

L W D W L

GBK form and stats

180 minutes! That's how long the GBK goalkeeper and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

GBK are travelling again after losing away to OLS in their previous match (0-2).

Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Vaajakoski.

GBK are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three OLS victories, three draws and four GBK wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

OLSV. Saarikoski
V. Saarikoski
2 goals
OLSS. Seppänen
S. Seppänen
1 goals

OLS missing players

GBK missing players

OLS GBK
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
3 2 0 Played P 0 1 3
1 1 0 Won W 0 0 2
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 1 1
6 3 0 Scored S 0 0 3
4 1 0 Conceded C 0 2 2
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 67%
33% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
67% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
33% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 67%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 100% 33%
 
3.7 5.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3 2.3
2.3 3.5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5 3.3
0.3 0.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
4 6 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 1 4.3
2.3 3.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 2
86% 43% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 50%
 
1.7 2.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 6 6.7
0.7 1 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 3 2.3
OLS Last season GBK
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 12   Played P   11 22
10 4   Won W   2 6
5 1   Drew D   3 5
10 7   Lost L   6 11
37 17   Scored S   16 34
27 16   Conceded C   26 46
96% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
68% 67%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   100% 100%
52% 58%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   55% 64%
28% 33%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   45% 50%
12% 17%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   45% 27%
52% 50%   BTTS BTTS   82% 73%
32% 25%   Clean Sheets C S   0% 9%
20% 25%   Failed to Score F T   18% 18%
 
3.3 4.2   Corners for (avg) C F   5.1 3.8
4.8 4.2   Corners against (avg) C A   3.7 4
1.8 1.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.2 2
1 1   Red cards R C   0 1
 
7.9 8.7   Shots (avg) S (   9.7 9.5
4.1 4.5   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5 4.9
35% 28%   Goal Efficiency G E   31% 34%
 
10.7 10.7   Shots against (avg) S A   12.7 11.1
4.4 4.3   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   6.9 5.7

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 RoPS 3 2 1 0 8 4 1 1 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 0 5 4 4 7
2 GBK 2 2 0 0 3 0 2 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6
3 JBK 3 1 1 1 11 7 2 1 1 0 11 4 1 0 0 1 0 3 4 4
4 VIFK 3 1 1 1 7 5 2 1 1 0 6 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 4
5 KuPS Ak. 2 1 1 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 4
6 Vaajakoski 3 1 0 2 4 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 3 1 1 3
7 Kraft 3 0 3 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 3
8 OTP 3 1 0 2 4 6 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 3
9 Kuopion Elo 3 1 0 2 3 6 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 1 5 -3 3
10 JS Hercules 2 1 0 1 3 9 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 8 -6 3
11 OLS 2 0 2 0 4 4 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 2
12 TP-47 3 0 1 2 3 7 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 6 -4 1
Last season 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 3 2 1 0 56 16 2 1 1 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 40 62
2 VIFK 3 2 1 0 45 23 2 2 0 0 5 2 1 0 1 0 3 3 22 55
3 JS Hercules 3 0 1 2 39 30 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 4 9 38
4 OLS 3 0 1 2 37 27 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 2 10 35

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.