No shortage of loss and gain for these participants this season, sitting in positions near the midsection of the Kakkonen table. Here's the Vaajakoski - RoPS latest:
- Vaajakoski have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Kakkonen
- RoPS have scored at least twice as many goals away as Vaajakoski have scored home.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting RoPS 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 3-2-6 (win-draw-loss) from eleven matches.
Both contenders have had time to rest since their previous match. Let's look for an active game!
Vaajakoski form and stats
Vaajakoski have played three Kakkonen home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 2 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
Vaajakoski drew their last game, also a home match. VIFK (placed 2nd) was the opponent, 1-1 the score.
In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting OTP.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Vaajakoski handle that role? We have found 5 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
Vaajakoski has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 1 goal from 3 games. From these home matches, Vaajakoski have conceded only 2 goals.
RoPS form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Kakkonen travels is 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
There were no winners in RoPS's previous match, the home game that ended 2-2 vs JJK (placed 1st). The match against JJK looked like a defeat for RoPS, but they did not accept the outcome and clawed their way back to 2-2. Venäläinen equalized in the 89th minute. As mentioned above, RoPS drew the match against JJK. Manager Tanner brought on Venäläinen to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.
A home win before that, celebrating 5-1 vs GBK.We have checked recent matches where RoPS have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 8 games were 0 victories, 3 draws and 5 defeats.
The visiting RoPS have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 5 goals from 4 games. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as RoPS have conceded 7 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  E. Venäläinen 6 goals | A. Savolainen 5 goals | T. Lakela 4 goals |
Vaajakoski missing players
RoPS missing players
| Vaajakoski | RoPS | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 5 | 20 |
| 12 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 89% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 78% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 90% |
| 56% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 70% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 60% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 25% | 20% |
| 67% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 70% |
| 11% | 33% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 20% |
| 33% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 10% |
| 5 | 7.7 | 10 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 4.7 | 5 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 4.4 |
| 2.1 | 2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.5 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.4 | 10.3 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 3 | 7.2 |
| 3.9 | 1.7 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 1.5 | 4.2 |
| 31% | 20% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 100% | 53% |
| 9.6 | 8.7 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 18 | 12.2 |
| 4.7 | 3.7 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 8.5 | 5.9 |
- RoPS have scored at least twice as many goals away as Vaajakoski have scored home.
- RoPS haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Vaajakoski have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Kakkonen
- Vaajakoski have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Kakkonen
- Vaajakoski have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Vaajakoski have yet to win a game at home.
| 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 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 24 |
| 2 | VIFK | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 17 |
| 3 | JS Hercules | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 17 |
| 4 | Kraft | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 16 |
| 5 | RoPS | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 14 |
| 6 | OLS | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
| 7 | Vaajakoski | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | -1 | 12 |
| 8 | KajHa | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -2 | 10 |
| 9 | JBK | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | -7 | 6 |
| 10 | GBK | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 15 | -11 | 6 |
| 11 | OTP | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -10 | 5 |
| 12 | FC Komeetat | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | -12 | 5 |
