After the first set of fixtures it's SJK - VPS 0-3 in points. Who will carry the day in this second League Cup game of the season?
This looks to be an appealing game with lots of action and excitement as both contenders are well revitalized since they last played a game. Let's start!
SJK form and stats
The season before, SJK's league statistics were 9 wins, 4 draws and 9 losses, resulting in 6th place in the Veikkausliiga. From these 22 matches they scored {29 goals} and let in 32. Appearing at home in the last season SJK delivered 6-3-2 (win-draw-lost) with {20 goals} and 15 conceded. The home fans saw their team lose the first League Cup game of the season here at Wallsport Areena. Last season these fans witnessed 1 win, 1 draw and 0 losses from SJK's 2 home games.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 225 minutes without scoring a league goal. Dunwoody was the last player to find the net.
The SJK followers got no joy from their last match, also played here at Wallsport Areena: A 0-1 defeat against KuPS (placed 2nd).
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Inter Turku (0-1).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 SJK have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 6 times, drawn 3 and lost 2.
SJK has scored {0 goals} so far and conceded {1 goals} from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
VPS form and stats
Let's have a look at how VPS performed last season in the Veikkausliiga: They landed a 10th position in the league table after playing out 6 victories, 4 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 39 and conceded {36 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 5 - drew 1 and lost 5 with 26/18 goals scored/conceded.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 2-1 against Haka in their previous game.
The game before that, in the Veikkausliiga, was lost at home, a 0-3 defeat against Haka.VPS are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 5 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 13 matches.
Head 2 Head
SJK have managed a streak of 6 consecutive matches without defeat (4-2-0) when facing VPS.SJK missing players
VPS missing players
| SJK | VPS | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 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% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | 14 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SJK | Last season | VPS | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 28 | 14 | Played | P | 17 | 31 | ||
| 10 | 7 | Won | W | 10 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 13 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 13 | ||
| 33 | 23 | Scored | S | 41 | 60 | ||
| 39 | 17 | Conceded | C | 24 | 46 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 68% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 94% | 84% | ||
| 43% | 57% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 71% | 68% | ||
| 29% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 65% | 52% | ||
| 14% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 35% | 26% | ||
| 50% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 59% | 55% | ||
| 18% | 21% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 23% | ||
| 36% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 12% | 23% | ||
| 6.5 | 7.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 3.9 | ||
| 5.5 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.1 | 5.6 | ||
| 2 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 9.5 | 11.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.6 | 9.2 | ||
| 4.7 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 4.6 | ||
| 26% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 46% | 40% | ||
| 9.4 | 8.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 10.3 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 4.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | VPS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | KuPS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Ilves | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Oulu | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Haka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 6 | SJK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 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 | HJK | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 41 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 58 |
| 2 | KuPS | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 43 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 57 |
| 3 | Honka | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 53 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 49 |
| 4 | Haka | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 40 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 45 |
| 5 | SJK | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 35 |
| 6 | Inter Turku | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 42 | 36 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 35 |
