The KuPS manager A. Erlandsen attacks this game with the team placed 1st so far. In the visitors dressing room SJK and their manager J. Honkavaara are in 8th place before this match.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
KuPS form and stats
As mentioned below, KuPS are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 Veikkausliiga games.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Otso Virtanen not having conceded a league goal in 180 minutes.
The KuPS supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Lahti in Veikkausliiga and win 3-0. Before that, KuPS played out a draw 0-0 when visiting Ilves.
KuPS has scored 4 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
SJK form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Veikkausliiga for SJK with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.
SJK lost away at HIFK (1-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. A 1-2 loss hosting Mariehamn before that.
SJK were so close to getting something from the game against HIFK, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal six minutes into overtime.
SJK have the goal stats of 1-2 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): KuPS six wins, two draws and SJK two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  I. Niskanen 3 goals | J. Pirttijoki 1 goals |  B. Adjei-Boateng 1 goals |
KuPS missing players
SJK missing players
| KuPS | SJK | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 50% | 75% |
| 60% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 25% |
| 7 | 9 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.5 | 6 |
| 4.6 | 2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 5.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3.5 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 55 | 32 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 11 | 33 |
| 18 | 7 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 44% | 57% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 30% |
- KuPS has the fewest conceded goals (0) at home
- KuPS has the fewest conceded goals (1)
- KuPS has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1)
- KuPS has the most clean sheets (2) at home
- KuPS has the most clean sheets (4)
- KuPS has the most scored goals in the first half (6)
- KuPS is in the best form (3-2-0)
| KuPS | Last season | SJK | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 27 | 14 | Played | P | 13 | 27 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 5 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 11 | ||
| 46 | 23 | Scored | S | 10 | 18 | ||
| 24 | 10 | Conceded | C | 15 | 29 | ||
| 93% | 86% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 85% | ||
| 70% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 56% | ||
| 41% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 31% | 26% | ||
| 26% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 8% | 7% | ||
| 15% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 48% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 37% | ||
| 41% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 30% | ||
| 19% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 48% | ||
| 4.8 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 4.2 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.5 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 296 | 170 | Total Shots | T S | 119 | 266 | ||
| 133 | 74 | Shots on Target | S O | 48 | 105 | ||
| 35% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 21% | 17% | ||
| 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 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 |
| 2 | Inter Turku | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| 3 | HJK | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 9 |
| 4 | Ilves | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 8 |
| 5 | Honka | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | HIFK | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -4 | 6 |
| 7 | Mariehamn | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 8 | SJK | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 4 |
| 9 | Lahti | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -4 | 4 |
| 10 | Haka | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 3 |
| 11 | RoPS | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 2 |
| 12 | TPS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -6 | 0 |