The Veikkausliiga season is still fresh and sports bettors should be cautious. This meeting between KuPS and Lahti promises to be an interesting one.
The visiting Lahti played their last game only four days ago, a Veikkausliiga match. That game was also an away game, at HIFK. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
This stadium uses artifical turf, unlike Lahti's home stadium. The visitors last 16 games on artifical turf have ended in 4 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses.
KuPS form and stats
Overall Veikkausliiga stats at home this season for KuPS, who have the most clean sheets (3) in Veikkausliiga, are 1-0-0 (wins-draw-losses).
KuPS drew their last game, 0-0 away at Ilves (placed 3rd). 1-1 away at Honka before that.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Veikkausliiga game versus SJK in only four days. This game is also played here at Savon Sanomat Areena.
KuPS has scored 1 goal so far and conceded 0 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Lahti form and stats
1-0-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Lahti in their Veikkausliiga matches away.
The Lahti goalkeeper Patrick Rakovsky is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 192 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Two travels in a row for Lahti, whose manager I. Zeneli could celebrate last time after the Veikkausliiga win against HIFK. Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against SJK.
Lahti has another fixture away, a Veikkausliiga game, against TPS in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Lahti has managed 3 goals and let in 0 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): KuPS four wins, five draws and Lahti one victory. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  I. Niskanen 2 goals | J. Pirttijoki 1 goals |  B. Adjei-Boateng 1 goals |
KuPS missing players
Lahti missing players
| KuPS | Lahti | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 75% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 75% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 67% |
| 7.2 | 12 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | 16 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 8 | 20 |
| 12 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 42% | 100% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 60% | 33% |
- KuPS has the fewest conceded goals (1)
- KuPS has the most clean sheets (3)
| KuPS | Last season | Lahti | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 27 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 28 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 4 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 46 | 23 | Scored | S | 10 | 31 | ||
| 24 | 10 | Conceded | C | 21 | 38 | ||
| 93% | 86% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 89% | ||
| 70% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 68% | ||
| 41% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 43% | ||
| 26% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 25% | ||
| 15% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 14% | ||
| 48% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 29% | 43% | ||
| 41% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 36% | ||
| 19% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 32% | ||
| 4.8 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 4.1 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.4 | 5.8 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.8 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 296 | 170 | Total Shots | T S | 122 | 260 | ||
| 133 | 74 | Shots on Target | S O | 53 | 116 | ||
| 35% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 19% | 27% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Inter Turku | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| 2 | KuPS | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | Ilves | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 4 | HJK | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 5 | Honka | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Mariehamn | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | SJK | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Lahti | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -1 | 4 |
| 9 | HIFK | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 3 |
| 10 | Haka | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 2 |
| 11 | RoPS | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 1 |
| 12 | TPS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -4 | 0 |