The Inter Turku & KuPS managers J. Riveiro and A. Erlandsen are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Veikkausliiga league table.
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.
This stadium uses grass, unlike KuPS's home stadium. The visitors last 23 games on grass have ended in 9 wins, 7 draws and 7 losses.
Inter Turku form and stats
22 points is a decent return from 9 Veikkausliiga games here at Veritas Stadion for Inter Turku. The data says 7 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
The Inter goalkeeper Henrik Moisander is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 250 minutes without conceding a goal in the Veikkausliiga.
Before that, Inter had a Veikkausliiga home game versus Lahti which ended with a victory 3-0.
This is expected to be a close game, with Inter Turku perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Inter Turku as a small favourite), we find nine games. Inter Turku has won five of these, drawn zero and lost four.
There will be little rest for Inter after this match as they are travelling to Ilves for a Veikkausliiga game in only three days.
Goals decide football matches and Inter are scoring many of them at home; 19 on target from 9 league matches. From these home matches, Inter have conceded only 6 goals.
KuPS form and stats
KuPS's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed KuPS collect 19 points from their 9 away matches in the Veikkausliiga. 5 victories and 4 draws have created these points (and only 0 defeats). KuPS has been amazing away for a time now, winning four in a row on their travels. The last time they went home with a point loss was against SJK.
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Ilves.
A. Udoh came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against HIFK last time out, making the manager A. Erlandsen feel like a tactical genius.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by KuPS in our archives, and the results are: three wins for KuPS, three draws and one defeat.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Honka in just three days.
KuPS are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 17 times in 9 away games so far. It's not easy to score on KuPS as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Inter and KuPS have met before this season: KuPS - Inter Turku 1-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Inter won one game, two matches ended with a draw and KuPS has seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / sevenTop Goalscorers
  T. Furuholm 9 goals |   U. Nissilä 5 goals |
Inter Turku missing players
KuPS missing players
| Inter Turku | KuPS | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 9 | 7 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 28 | 19 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 17 | 35 |
| 16 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 89% | 89% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 89% | 94% |
| 67% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 89% |
| 39% | 56% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | 61% |
| 28% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 22% | 22% |
| 17% | 22% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 11% |
| 39% | 44% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 56% | 56% |
| 39% | 44% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 44% | 39% |
| 33% | 22% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 11% | 11% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 231 | 127 | 23 | Total Shots | T S | 10 | 101 | 239 |
| 98 | 61 | 10 | Shots on Target | S O | 7 | 48 | 96 |
| 29% | 31% | 10% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 35% | 36% |
- Inter Turku has the fewest conceded goals (6) at home in Veikkausliiga
- Inter Turku have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Inter Turku have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- KuPS has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Veikkausliiga
- KuPS has the most scored goals in the first half (21) in Veikkausliiga
- KuPS have not yet lost a game away.
- KuPS have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- KuPS is in the best form (5-1-0)
| 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 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 35 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 19 | 41 |
| 2 | HJK | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 42 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 27 | 38 |
| 3 | Inter Turku | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 28 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 31 |
| 4 | Honka | 18 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 28 |
| 5 | Ilves | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 27 |
| 6 | HIFK | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 25 |
| 7 | Lahti | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 26 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 15 | -1 | 25 |
| 8 | SJK | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 23 |
| 9 | Mariehamn | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 34 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 23 | -8 | 20 |
| 10 | Haka | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 37 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 14 | -17 | 15 |
| 11 | TPS | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 19 | -17 | 12 |
| 12 | RoPS | 18 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 39 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 21 | -27 | 5 |