It's only fixture two of the Veikkausliiga for these squads. And it's all to play for here at Tehtaan kenttä as Haka welcome Oulu. Get smart with this preview!
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Haka form and stats
The season before, Haka's league stats were 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, results that produced 3rd spot in the League Cup. During these five matches they scored {6 goals} and let in 6. Playing as the home side in the former season Haka generated 2-1-0 (win-draw-lost) with {5 goals} and 3 conceded.
In their previous game, the manager Tainio led his Haka to a defeat away at SJK. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Tehtaan kenttä.
Before that, Haka drew at home versus Oulu.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Haka have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 5 matches with the results: Won 2, drawn 1 and lost 2.
Oulu form and stats
Let's have a look at how Oulu performed last season in the Veikkausliiga: They landed a 11th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 3 draws and 14 defeats. In total they scored 17 and conceded {35 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 1 and lost 8 with 9/21 goals scored/conceded. 1 win, 0 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Oulu playing as the away team in the Veikkausliiga this season.
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. Oulu goalkeeper Callum Ward is eager to challenge this, with his 275 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
It's the second away game in a row for Oulu, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus KTP (placed 11th) last time out.
It was a League Cup defeat before that one as the away game against HJK wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Oulu playing away and similar expectations, we found 4 relevant matches. Results were 2 Oulu wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats.
Oulu have the goal stats of 2-0 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Haka victories, three draws and two Oulu wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Coffey 4 goals | O. Suutari 2 goals |  T. Purme 1 goals |
Haka missing players
Oulu missing players
| Haka | Oulu | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 67% | 67% |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Haka | Last season | Oulu | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 5 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 7 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Scored | S | 6 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 5 | 7 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | ||
| 60% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 71% | ||
| 60% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 43% | ||
| 20% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 14% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 60% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 71% | ||
| 20% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 29% | ||
| 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | ||
| 3.2 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4 | ||
| 4.6 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 4.3 | ||
| 2.2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.2 | 2.4 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.8 | 8.3 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.9 | ||
| 27% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 30% | ||
| 6 | 6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.2 | 10.4 | ||
| 3.6 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 4.9 | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Oulu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Inter Turku | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | SJK | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Mariehamn | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Ilves | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Lahti | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | VPS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | KuPS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Haka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | KTP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Honka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 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 | Oulu | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | KuPS | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 7 |
| 3 | Haka | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | SJK | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 5 | VPS | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 6 | Ilves | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
