The KuPS manager J. Honkavaara attacks this game with the team placed 7th so far. In the visitors dressing room Honka and their manager V. Vasara are in 9th place before this match.
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.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Honka have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 6-3-5 (win-draw-loss) from 14 matches.
KuPS form and stats
Two home games so far for KuPS, who are yet to win here at Savon Sanomat Areena, having collected only 2 points so far. With three draws from their last three games overall it has been a case of neither great nor terrible for KuPS. The home fans are hungry for more even though KuPS have been steadily collecting points here at Savon Sanomat Areena through three straight draws.The home supporters saw a 0-0 draw versus HJK in the Veikkausliiga last time out and are looking for a win here. A 3-3 draw away before that, with Lahti the opponent.
At Savon Sanomat Areena, KuPS has the goal stats of 2-2 (for/against) from 2 fixtures.
Honka form and stats
A perfect away game record so far for the visitors, but they have only played once. Last season their away game stats were 6 wins, 8 draws and 3 defeats from 17 matches. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Honka's record of four away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the HIFK game.The manager V. Vasara was unhappy after their last game, a Veikkausliiga match played at their home ground Savon Sanomat Areena. Honka suffered a 1-3 loss to Mariehamn. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at RoPS.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 49 similar matches played by Honka in our archives, and the results are: 29 wins for Honka, 11 draws and 9 defeats.
It's early days yet, but Honka has scored 2 and conceded 1 goals from their travels so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 3 KuPS victories, 3 draws and 4 Honka wins.Top Goalscorers
  R. Karjalainen 2 goals |   Borjas Martín 2 goals |  P. Pennanen 1 goals |
KuPS missing players
Honka missing players
| KuPS | Honka | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 3 | 2 | Played | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | Scored | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | Conceded | 1 | 4 |
| 67% | 50% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 50% | Over 1.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 50% | Over 2.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 50% | Over 3.5 | 0% | 50% |
| 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | 0% | 0% |
| 67% | 50% | Both teams to score | 100% | 100% |
| 33% | 50% | Clean Sheet | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 50% | Failed To Score | 0% | 0% |
| 3.3 | 4.5 | Corners For (avg) | 5 | 3.5 |
| 5 | 5 | Corners Against (avg) | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 2.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 1 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | Red Cards (total) | 0 | 0 |
| KuPS | Last season | Honka | ||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 33 | 17 | Played | 17 | 33 |
| 56 | 31 | Scored | 22 | 51 |
| 37 | 21 | Conceded | 19 | 33 |
| 97% | 100% | Over 0.5 | 88% | 88% |
| 82% | 88% | Over 1.5 | 76% | 79% |
| 58% | 59% | Over 2.5 | 35% | 48% |
| 27% | 35% | Over 3.5 | 18% | 24% |
| 15% | 18% | Over 4.5 | 18% | 12% |
| 70% | 82% | Both teams to score | 65% | 64% |
| 18% | 6% | Clean Sheet | 29% | 30% |
| 15% | 12% | Failed To Score | 18% | 18% |
| 5.2 | 5.8 | Corners For (avg) | 5.1 | 5.5 |
| 3.8 | 3.9 | Corners Against (avg) | 4.7 | 4.7 |
| 1.4 | 1.1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 1.1 | 1.2 |
| 2 | 0 | Red Cards (total) | 2 | 2 |
- KuPS hasn't played a single 0-0 game at home.
- KuPS is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | D | P |
| 1 | HJK | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | SJK | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Ilves | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Lahti | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | RoPS | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Mariehamn | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | KuPS | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Inter Turku | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| 9 | Honka | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -1 | 3 |
| 10 | VPS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 |
| 11 | HIFK | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | KPV | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
