Soccer match preview: KuPS confident before travelling to Lahti

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Competition: Fri 22.April
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Lahden Stadion (14500 seats)

Lahti look forward to clash heads with KuPS in this Veikkausliiga game. Everything you must know about the fixture can be found here!

Insights:
  • Lahti have the fewest scored goals (0) at home in Veikkausliiga

Lahti's stadium, Lahden Stadion, has a grass surface. KuPS have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for KuPS when playing on grass; 11 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses from 22 matches. They have scored 32 goals in these games and conceded 24.

Lahti have less rest than KuPS in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Veikkausliiga game only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at HIFK.

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Lahti form and stats

0-0-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Veikkausliiga numbers at home for Lahti, who have the fewest scored goals (0) at home in Veikkausliiga, so far this season. Three consecutive losses here at Lahden Stadion is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.

Happy days for Lahti in their previous game, a fixture away at HIFK (placed 12th) that ended with a 3-0 victory.

Early season league goal statistics from Lahti's 1 home game: 0 goals, 5 conceded.

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KuPS form and stats

1-0-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for KuPS in their Veikkausliiga matches away. KuPS has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

KuPS are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the fixture against SJK (placed 9th).

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Ilves at their stadium, the result 2-1.

KuPS have the goal stats of 2-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - three - six (Lahti wins - draws - KuPS wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

KuPSJ. Ikaunieks
J. Ikaunieks
5 goals
LahtiA. Zeqiri
A. Zeqiri
3 goals
LahtiG. Charles
G. Charles
1 goals

Lahti missing players

KuPS missing players

Lahti KuPS
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
3 1 1 Played P 0 1 3
1 0 0 Won W 0 1 3
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 1 1 Lost L 0 0 0
3 0 0 Scored S 0 2 6
5 5 5 Conceded C 0 1 2
67% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
67% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
67% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 67%
33% 100% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 100% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 67%
67% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 33%
67% 100% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4.7 3 3 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4 3
4.3 8 8 Corners against (avg) C A 0 1 3.7
3.7 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 3.7
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.7 3 3 Shots (avg) S ( 0 2 5.7
5.3 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2 2.3
19% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 100% 86%
 
10.7 13 13 Shots against (avg) S A 0 1 5
4.7 6 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 1 2.3
Key stats in Veikkausliiga this season:
  • Lahti have the fewest scored goals (0) at home in Veikkausliiga
  • Lahti have the most conceded goals (5) at home in Veikkausliiga
  • Lahti have the the worst goal difference (-5) at home in Veikkausliiga
Lahti Last season KuPS
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
3 2   Played P   1 4
1 0   Won W   1 2
0 0   Drew D   0 0
2 2   Lost L   0 2
4 0   Scored S   3 7
9 6   Conceded C   0 6
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
100% 100%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   100% 100%
67% 50%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   100% 75%
67% 50%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   0% 50%
33% 0%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   0% 0%
33% 0%   BTTS BTTS   0% 50%
0% 0%   Clean Sheets C S   100% 25%
67% 100%   Failed to Score F T   0% 25%
 
3.7 4   Corners for (avg) C F   6 5.2
6.3 6   Corners against (avg) C A   4 4.5
3 3.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2 2.8
0 0   Red cards R C   0 0
 
7 5   Shots (avg) S (   12 10.8
2.7 0.5   Shots on Target (avg) S O   9 6.2
50% 0%   Goal Efficiency G E   33% 28%
 
16.7 13.5   Shots against (avg) S A   10 8.2
8.7 7.5   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   1 3.8

  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 3 3 0 0 6 2 2 2 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 4 9
2 HJK 3 3 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 3 9
3 Haka 3 2 0 1 6 4 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 1 0 1 4 3 2 6
4 VPS 3 1 1 1 7 3 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 5 0 4 4
5 Honka 3 1 1 1 4 4 1 1 0 0 3 2 2 0 1 1 1 2 0 4
6 Lahti 3 1 1 1 3 5 1 0 0 1 0 5 2 1 1 0 3 0 -2 4
7 Mariehamn 3 0 3 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 3
8 Inter Turku 3 1 0 2 3 5 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 3
9 SJK 3 1 0 2 2 4 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 3
10 Oulu 3 0 2 1 5 6 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 3 4 -1 2
11 Ilves 3 0 1 2 4 6 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 3 4 -2 1
12 HIFK 3 0 1 2 2 6 2 0 1 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 -4 1

Read more about Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga is the premier division in Finnish football. It has its name from the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, the main sponsor. Seasons run from April to October in a league of twelve teams. These play two fixtures against each other in the regular season. After that the league table splits in two. The top teams play a championship round and the bottom half play a relegation round.