The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Mariehamn are in the 8th position while the guesting RoPS worry at 12th.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Mariehamn and RoPS.
Mariehamn's stadium, Wiklöf Holding Arena, has a grass surface. RoPS 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 RoPS when playing on grass; 7 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses from 21 matches. They have scored 22 goals in these games and conceded 26.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1200 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Mariehamn form and stats
When playing at home in the Veikkausliiga, Mariehamn have managed 2 wins, 2 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 5 games. Mariehamn has recorded two wins in a row here at Wiklöf Holding Arena, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
Mariehamn faced defeat in their previous match, away at KuPS (1-2). Before that, Mariehamn had a home game versus TPS which ended with a victory 1-0.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Mariehamn as they are travelling to their away game against HJK in the Veikkausliiga. That match is four days after this one.
Mariehamn has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 5 matches. On the other hand, Mariehamn have conceded 5 goals.
RoPS form and stats
RoPS are still without points from their Veikkausliiga away games. 4 games, 4 defeats. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for RoPS, who have now gone eleven games without a victory. The Inter Turku game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since. Bitter travels for RoPS as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Inter Turku match.
RoPS aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 303 league minutes without a goal. J. Vahtera was the last player to find the net.
RoPS's previous game was their home loss versus HJK (0-1). A loss against Inter Turku was the result prior to that, in a home game.
Late heartbreak for RoPS in the HJK match, as the deciding 0-1 goal came deep into overtime.
RoPS has another fixture away, a Veikkausliiga game, against SJK in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
RoPS are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 1 goal from 4 away games. The RoPS manager V. Tauriainen has some worries about the defense as 8 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Mariehamn and RoPS have met before this season: RoPS - Mariehamn 2-3. Last ten meetings between the teams: Mariehamn won five, RoPS won four and one draw. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Ademi 7 goals |  P. Makrillos 3 goals |
Mariehamn missing players
RoPS missing players
| Mariehamn | RoPS | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 15 | 5 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 16 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 8 | 21 |
| 90% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 64% |
| 70% | 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 45% |
| 30% | 20% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 36% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 60% | 20% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 45% |
| 30% | 60% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 20% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 75% | 55% |
| 4 | 4 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 1.8 | 2.6 |
| 6.8 | 6.2 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9.5 | 8.8 | 7.7 |
| 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 82 | 34 | 22 | Total Shots | T S | 4 | 17 | 61 |
| 44 | 21 | 12 | Shots on Target | S O | 1 | 5 | 24 |
| 34% | 24% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 20% | 33% |
- Mariehamn have scored at least twice as many goals at home as RoPS have scored away.
- RoPS has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- RoPS has the fewest points (0) away
- RoPS has the fewest scored goals (1) away
- RoPS has the the worst goal difference (-13)
- RoPS has the the worst goal difference (-7) away
- RoPS have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- RoPS have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- RoPS have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- RoPS have lost all their away matches so far.
- RoPS have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- RoPS have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- RoPS haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- RoPS is in the worst form (0-0-6)
| 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 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 25 |
| 2 | HJK | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 24 |
| 3 | KuPS | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 22 |
| 4 | Honka | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 19 |
| 5 | HIFK | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 16 |
| 6 | Ilves | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -2 | 16 |
| 7 | Lahti | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 15 |
| 8 | Mariehamn | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | -1 | 14 |
| 9 | SJK | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -4 | 8 |
| 10 | Haka | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -12 | 7 |
| 11 | TPS | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -11 | 6 |
| 12 | RoPS | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | -13 | 2 |