SalPa will aim to make use of their home advantage to get one over today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Tampere United.
- SalPa have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Tampere United have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Kakkonen
SalPa's stadium, Salon Urheilupuisto Stadion, has a grass surface. Tampere United have artifical turf 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 Tampere United when playing on grass; 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss from six matches. They have scored 14 goals in these games and conceded 8.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
SalPa form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Salon Urheilupuisto Stadion as SalPa have scored 13 goals to get 12 points from 6 games. The overall stats in the Kakkonen are 4-0-2 (wins-draws-losses).
An away draw last time out for SalPa, facing I-Kissat in a game that ended 1-1.
Before that game, the home loss against MuSa with the scoreline 1-4.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 SalPa have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 4 games) they have won 0 times, drawn 2 and lost 2.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (13 in 6 games), SalPa's attacking play is working. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the SalPa defense is not exactly impregnable. 10 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Tampere United form and stats
3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Tampere United playing as the away team in the Kakkonen this season.
Tampere failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Jazz (placed 3rd) that ended with defeat 1-2.
Before that, Tampere United travelled to EPS and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.Observe that 9 of this club's 12 most recent league rounds have ended with at least three goals.
Tampere United are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 6 away games so far. As opposed to that, Tampere United have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
SalPa and Tampere United have met before this season: Tampere United - SalPa 4-1. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's four SalPa victories, zero draws and one Tampere United win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. Heinonen 7 goals |  T. Toijala 6 goals | J. Meura 4 goals |
SalPa missing players
Tampere United missing players
| SalPa | Tampere United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 21 | 13 | 6 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 24 |
| 23 | 10 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 69% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 75% |
| 38% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 42% |
| 31% | 33% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 69% | 83% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 83% | 83% |
| 23% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 4.2 | 4.8 | 2.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 6.3 | 5.8 |
| 4.2 | 2.7 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.5 | 5.1 |
| 2.9 | 2.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.7 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 6.8 | 2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17 | 11.7 | 11.6 |
| 4 | 3.3 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 9 | 5.5 | 5.7 |
| 40% | 65% | 150% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 11% | 27% | 35% |
| 7.9 | 5.2 | 2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 10 | 9.6 |
| 4.2 | 3 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 4 | 4 |
- All of SalPa's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Tampere United's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- SalPa have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- SalPa have scored in all their home matches so far.
- SalPa haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Tampere United have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Tampere United have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Kakkonen
- Tampere United 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 | I-Kissat | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 34 | 25 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 24 |
| 2 | Klubi-04 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 24 |
| 3 | Jazz | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 33 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 14 | 11 | 23 |
| 4 | Tampere United | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 23 |
| 5 | Honka Akatemia | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 30 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 20 |
| 6 | HJS Akatemia | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 20 |
| 7 | SalPa | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | VJS | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 17 |
| 9 | MuSa | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 15 |
| 10 | GrIFK | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 13 | -1 | 15 |
| 11 | EPS | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 13 |
| 12 | Ilves II | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -7 | 11 |
| 13 | KaaPo | 13 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 48 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 20 | -39 | 4 |
