It's only the second game in the Kolmonen for these contenders. and fresh bodies and minds here at Lippumäen kuplahalli as Kings receive PK-37. Read this preview!
Both contenders have had time to rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's aim for an enthusiastic game!
Kings form and stats
Last season, Kings's league results were 4 wins, 2 draws and 9 losses, leading to 9th position in the Kolmonen. From these 15 matches they scored 20 goals and conceded 48. Appearing at their own stadium in the previous season Kings managed 3-2-3 (win-draw-lost) with 17 goals and 19 conceded.
Happy days for Kings in their previous game, a fixture away at KeuPa (placed 11th) that ended with a 4-0 victory. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Kings played a great game against KeuPa and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Ahead of that match, Kings won a home game hosting SaPa Pieksämäki (4-1).PK-37 form and stats
Let's have a look at how PK-37 performed last season in the Kakkonen-LohkoC: They landed a 11th position in the league table after playing out 3 victories, 4 draws and 15 defeats. In total they scored 25 and conceded 53 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 2 and lost 8 with 10/29 goals scored/conceded.
PK-37 failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Riverball (placed 2nd) that ended with defeat 0-2.
As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking PK-37's match history for similar games we find five matches. The home team won three of these as expected, two of them by at least two goals. PK-37 managed two draws and zero surprise wins.
Head 2 Head
Data for the prior three meetings featuring these two squads are: one win for Kings, two draws and zero wins for PK-37. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: one game.Kings missing players
PK-37 missing players
| Kings | PK-37 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kings | Last season | PK-37 | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 16 | 8 | Played | P | 7 | 16 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 31 | 14 | Scored | S | 13 | 32 | ||
| 26 | 10 | Conceded | C | 12 | 23 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 94% | ||
| 94% | 88% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 81% | ||
| 75% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 86% | 69% | ||
| 56% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 71% | 50% | ||
| 25% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 19% | ||
| 75% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 71% | 69% | ||
| 12% | 12% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 19% | ||
| 12% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 19% | ||
| 8.9 | 11.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 4.7 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5.1 | ||
| 2.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.9 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 13.1 | 15.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 8.6 | ||
| 6.1 | 6.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 4.7 | ||
| 33% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 39% | ||
| 8.3 | 8.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.6 | 11.1 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kuopion Elo | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 6 |
| 2 | Riverball | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Kings | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | Barca | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Jyväskylä Blackbird | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Warkaus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | JJK Jyvaskyla II | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 8 | JPS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 9 | LehPa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 10 | PK-37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 11 | KeuPa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 |
| 12 | SaPa Pieksämäki | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | -10 | 0 |
