After two games we know a little more about the qualities of RoPS and Haka in this fresh Veikkausliiga season. Read our match preview!
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
RoPS's stadium, Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä, has a artifical turf surface. Haka have grass 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 Haka when playing on artifical turf; 5 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses from 15 matches. They have scored 18 goals in these games and conceded 18.
RoPS form and stats
0 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what RoPS have to build on here at Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä in the Veikkausliiga.
The RoPS fans got no joy from their last match, a Veikkausliiga game also here at Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä: A 0-1 defeat against HIFK (placed 6th). Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Inter Turku (1-3).
The match schedule is unforgiving for RoPS as they have a new game in only four days, a Veikkausliiga match thankfully also at home. Ilves are visiting.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the RoPS at home in the league. 0 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Haka form and stats
Haka have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the Veikkausliiga were 11 victories, 2 draws and 0 defeats from 13 fixtures.
Haka lost away at HJK (1-3) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Honka.
1 goal so far away for Haka, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 3. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between the teams: RoPS won two, Haka won seven and one draw. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Kokko 1 goals |  S. Keita 1 goals |  E. Markkanen 1 goals |
RoPS missing players
Haka missing players
| RoPS | Haka | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 1.5 | 2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8.5 | 7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 13 | 9.5 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 9 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| RoPS | Last season | Haka | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 27 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 27 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 11 | 24 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | ||
| 23 | 12 | Scored | S | 30 | 76 | ||
| 35 | 12 | Conceded | C | 9 | 22 | ||
| 93% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 93% | ||
| 59% | 54% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 78% | ||
| 44% | 38% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 67% | ||
| 15% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 54% | 52% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 30% | ||
| 37% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 56% | ||
| 26% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 46% | 44% | ||
| 44% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 7% | ||
| 4 | 4.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 6.8 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.2 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.2 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 211 | 94 | Total Shots | T S | 112 | 309 | ||
| 91 | 40 | Shots on Target | S O | 63 | 167 | ||
| 25% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 48% | 46% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | HJK | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 | KuPS | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | Ilves | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | SJK | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Inter Turku | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | HIFK | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -2 | 3 |
| 7 | Honka | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Mariehamn | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 1 |
| 9 | Haka | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
| 10 | Lahti | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 1 |
| 11 | TPS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | RoPS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Haka | 27 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 76 | 22 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 46 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 9 | 54 | 74 |
| 2 | TPS | 27 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 45 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 22 | 55 |
| 3 | Jaro | 27 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 53 | 40 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 20 | 13 | 43 |
| 4 | KTP | 27 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 46 | 44 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 23 | 29 | 2 | 42 |
| 5 | MuSa | 27 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 40 | 54 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 31 | -14 | 38 |
| 6 | EIF | 27 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 42 | 55 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 26 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 15 | 29 | -13 | 30 |
| 7 | Oulu | 27 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 34 | 30 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 15 | 4 | 29 |
| 8 | Kajaani | 27 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 40 | 52 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 18 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 28 | -12 | 24 |
| 9 | MYPA | 27 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 30 | 62 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 29 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 33 | -32 | 22 |
| 10 | TPV | 27 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 30 | 54 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 34 | -24 | 21 |