Veikkausliiga match preview: Haka believed to be the weaker party when KuPS pays a visit

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Competition: Sun 11.July
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Tehtaan kenttä (3516 seats)

Haka will hope their home comforts are enough to get a result from this difficult encounter with high-flying KuPS.

Insights:
  • Haka have yet to win a game at home.
  • KuPS have scored at least twice as many goals away as Haka have scored home.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

This stadium uses grass, unlike KuPS's home stadium. The visitors last 25 games on grass have ended in 10 wins, 7 draws and 8 losses.

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Haka form and stats

Overall Veikkausliiga stats at home this season for Haka are 0-2-2 (wins-draw-losses). Two draws in a row at home now for Haka.

The fans are hoping that Haka will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Veikkausliiga game against Ilves (placed 6th).

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Honka that ended 1-1.

Haka have scored 3 league goals here from 4 matches, not a lot. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Haka defense is not exactly impregnable. 7 goals conceded from 4 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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KuPS form and stats

As the visiting team in Veikkausliiga matches, KuPS have produced an overall stat of 3-0-2 so far. Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus Haka.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. KuPS goalkeeper Johannes Kreidl is eager to challenge this, with his 242 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

The supporters enjoyed KuPS's previous game versus Oulu (placed 12th), a Veikkausliiga 2-0 win played at home.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Oulu at their stadium, the result 2-0.

The travelling fans enjoy KuPS's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 5 league matches away. KuPS have conceded 6 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

KuPS - Haka 1-2 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Haka wins - draws - KuPS wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

KuPSD. Tomas
D. Tomas
3 goals
KuPSU. Nissilä
U. Nissilä
3 goals
HakaH. Malundama
H. Malundama
2 goals

Haka missing players

KuPS missing players

Haka KuPS
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 4 2 Played P 1 5 11
2 0 0 Won W 1 3 7
2 2 1 Drew D 0 0 1
6 2 1 Lost L 0 2 3
10 3 2 Scored S 2 9 17
15 7 3 Conceded C 0 6 9
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
90% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 60% 64%
60% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 36%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 18%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 40% 18%
60% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 36%
10% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 55%
30% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 18%
 
5.8 6.8 7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 5 5.5
6 6 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 2 3.6 3.3
2.5 2.8 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.6 1.7
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.9 8.5 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 5 7.8 8.2
3.4 3.8 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.4 4
29% 20% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 53% 39%
Key stats in Veikkausliiga this season:
  • All of Haka's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Haka have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Haka have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Haka have yet to win a game at home.
  • Haka haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • KuPS have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • KuPS have scored at least twice as many goals away as Haka have scored home.
  • KuPS 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 HJK 11 10 1 0 22 5 5 5 0 0 13 4 6 5 1 0 9 1 17 31
2 Inter Turku 11 7 1 3 19 10 6 5 1 0 11 3 5 2 0 3 8 7 9 22
3 KuPS 11 7 1 3 17 9 6 4 1 1 8 3 5 3 0 2 9 6 8 22
4 Lahti 10 5 3 2 15 11 6 4 1 1 10 7 4 1 2 1 5 4 4 18
5 SJK 11 5 2 4 11 9 6 2 2 2 6 5 5 3 0 2 5 4 2 17
6 Ilves 11 5 2 4 14 14 5 4 0 1 8 6 6 1 2 3 6 8 0 17
7 HIFK 10 4 4 2 10 8 5 2 1 2 5 6 5 2 3 0 5 2 2 16
8 Honka 11 3 1 7 12 16 4 1 0 3 3 6 7 2 1 4 9 10 -4 10
9 Haka 10 2 2 6 10 15 4 0 2 2 3 7 6 2 0 4 7 8 -5 8
10 Mariehamn 10 2 1 7 5 17 6 1 1 4 3 9 4 1 0 3 2 8 -12 7
11 KTP 10 1 3 6 9 17 4 0 1 3 3 9 6 1 2 3 6 8 -8 6
12 Oulu 10 1 1 8 7 20 6 0 1 5 2 11 4 1 0 3 5 9 -13 4

Read more about Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga is the premier division in Finnish football. It has its name from the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, the main sponsor. Seasons run from April to October in a league of twelve teams. These play two fixtures against each other in the regular season. After that the league table splits in two. The top teams play a championship round and the bottom half play a relegation round.