Boasting a 10 point edge in the league table, Honka fans aim to see their team collect full points from this fixture hosting VPS.
- Honka have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- VPS have the fewest scored goals (6) in Veikkausliiga
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Honka form and stats
The story so far in the Veikkausliiga for Honka at their home stadium (Tapiolan Urheilupuisto) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Honka's previous fixture was a Finland Cup game also played at their own stadium, finishing 5-1 vs Honka Akatemia. The home team hope to to continue in that form.
Before that, Honka played out a Veikkausliiga draw 1-1 when visiting Ilves.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Honka matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat (from 4 games).
Low-scoring affair? In this club's last 13 league matches, 10 have seen two goals or less.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Honka, as the Veikkausliiga home game vs HJK is only four days away.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Honka here at Tapiolan Urheilupuisto in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 6 games). Honka have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
VPS form and stats
0-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for VPS in their Veikkausliiga matches away. It's looking increasingly bleak for VPS who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Haka was the last time a defeat was avoided.
It's another away fixture for the visitors, as they travelled to Oulu in their previous outing. The Finland Cup duel ended 0-0.
The game before that, in the Veikkausliiga, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against KuPS.After this away game VPS return home for a Veikkausliiga game against Inter Turku. That game is only four sleeps after this.
The attacking power of VPS when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. The VPS manager Nuorela has some worries about the defense as 11 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Honka have avoided defeat in the last 7 games (5-2-0) facing VPS.Interestingly enough, the last time VPS kept a "clean sheet" was also meeting this opponent, eight league matches ago (VPS - Honka 0-0).
Honka missing players
VPS missing players
| Honka | VPS | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 11 | 17 |
| 85% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 82% |
| 62% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 80% | 64% |
| 23% | 33% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 80% | 45% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 18% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 31% | 17% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 60% | 36% |
| 31% | 33% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 54% | 67% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 40% | 64% |
| 5.4 | 5.7 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.2 | 4.4 |
| 4 | 3.3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 16 | 7 | 5.8 |
| 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9.2 | 10.3 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 9.6 | 9.3 |
| 3.5 | 3.7 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 3 | 2.6 |
| 24% | 23% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 27% | 21% |
| 8.3 | 6.8 | 5.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 10 | 9.6 |
| 3.5 | 2.8 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5 | 4.1 |
- Honka have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- VPS have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- VPS have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- VPS have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- VPS have the fewest scored goals (6) in Veikkausliiga
- VPS have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Veikkausliiga
- VPS have the the worst goal difference (-11) in Veikkausliiga
- VPS have yet to win a game away.
- VPS haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- VPS is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | KuPS | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 28 |
| 2 | SJK | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 27 |
| 3 | HJK | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 26 |
| 4 | Oulu | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | -2 | 18 |
| 5 | Honka | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 16 |
| 6 | Inter Turku | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | Ilves | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | KTP | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -6 | 12 |
| 9 | Lahti | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 10 |
| 10 | Haka | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 13 | -7 | 10 |
| 11 | Mariehamn | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -8 | 6 |
| 12 | VPS | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -11 | 6 |
