The season has been strenuous for Lahti up to now, while SJK have enjoyed many victories. Will the away side claim three points at Lahden Stadion?
- Lahti have the fewest points (4) at home in Veikkausliiga
- SJK have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Veikkausliiga
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting SJK have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 7-3-11 (win-draw-loss) from 21 matches.
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.
Lahti form and stats
The story so far in the Veikkausliiga for Lahti at their home stadium (Lahden Stadion) is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Lahti are returning here after visiting HJK and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Zeqiri scored the goal(s).
Preceding that match was a defeat to KuPS (3-4).Lahti are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 5 games. Lahti have conceded 8 from these games. When Lahti hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like VPS, Mariehamn and Haka), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.
SJK form and stats
The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 3 wins, 3 draws and only 0 losses in the Veikkausliiga.
SJK are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the fixture against Honka (placed 5th).
Before that, SJK travelled to Ilves and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.SJK have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 6 league away games 8 goals have been scored. The SJK defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average ({1 goals} in 6 games).
Head 2 Head
SJK - Lahti 0-0 was the output when these contenders last played each other, also in this season. Lahti-SJK H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Lahti five wins, SJK two wins, three draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  A. Zeqiri 3 goals | I. Sadik 3 goals | J. Pirttijoki 1 goals |
Lahti missing players
SJK missing players
| Lahti | SJK | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 5 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 6 | 5 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 19 | 8 | 8 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 77% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 67% | 79% |
| 62% | 60% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 46% | 60% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 17% | 36% |
| 23% | 20% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 15% | 20% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 38% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 17% | 36% |
| 38% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 83% | 64% |
| 46% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 21% |
| 4 | 4.4 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.8 | 5.4 |
| 5.4 | 3.2 | 2.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| 2.6 | 1.6 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.3 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7.5 | 9.6 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 9 | 10.4 |
| 2.8 | 4.2 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | 3.9 |
| 33% | 29% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 33% | 33% |
| 11.8 | 9.6 | 13.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 7 | 8.1 |
| 5.2 | 5.4 | 7.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 2 | 2.4 |
- Lahti have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Lahti have the fewest points (4) at home in Veikkausliiga
- SJK have not yet lost a game away.
- SJK have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- SJK have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Veikkausliiga
- SJK have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Veikkausliiga
- SJK have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Veikkausliiga
| 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 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 31 |
| 2 | SJK | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 31 |
| 3 | HJK | 16 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 28 |
| 4 | Oulu | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 27 |
| 5 | Honka | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 20 |
| 6 | Inter Turku | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | -2 | 18 |
| 7 | KTP | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 17 |
| 8 | Ilves | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 16 |
| 9 | VPS | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -6 | 15 |
| 10 | Lahti | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -7 | 13 |
| 11 | Haka | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 16 | -10 | 12 |
| 12 | Mariehamn | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 10 |
