Struggling RoPS will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Honka in the upcoming league round. It’s 12th vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
It's no vacation for neither RoPS nor Honka as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
This stadium uses artifical turf, unlike Honka's home stadium. The visitors last 17 games on artifical turf have ended in 8 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses.
It's quite the trip for Honka when visiting RoPS as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.
RoPS form and stats
With 0 Veikkausliiga wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, RoPS, who have the most conceded goals (30) in Veikkausliiga, are certainly not brimming with confidence. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 14 attempts. With seven home Veikkausliiga games in a row without a win, the RoPS fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the HIFK game long ago, can be stopped today.
The fans are hoping that RoPS will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-3 away loss in the Veikkausliiga game against KuPS (placed 2nd). Heartbreak before that as RoPS lost 1-2 at SJK's place.
The RoPS fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 7 in 7 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the RoPS defense is not exactly impregnable. 13 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Honka form and stats
Playing away, Honka have won 2 games, drawn 4 and suffered 0 defeats in the Veikkausliiga this season.
Honka are travelling after their nice 3-2 home win in the Veikkausliiga against Ilves (placed 6th). A 0-1 loss hosting HIFK before that.
Honka have scored 6 goals on their travels this season, from 6 away games in the league. Honka are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 2 away goals have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Honka - RoPS 1-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): RoPS three wins, two draws and Honka five victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Dongou Tsafack 7 goals |   T. Kaukua 2 goals |  M. Tamminen 2 goals |
RoPS missing players
Honka missing players
| RoPS | Honka | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 5 | 6 | 15 |
| 30 | 13 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 67% | 77% |
| 71% | 71% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 62% |
| 57% | 43% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 36% | 43% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 14% | 29% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 43% | 57% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 33% | 46% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 67% | 46% |
| 57% | 43% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 31% |
| 2.7 | 3.1 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.4 |
| 7.7 | 7.1 | 10 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 5.2 | 4.3 |
| 1.6 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 76 | 44 | 5 | Total Shots | T S | 38 | 63 | 119 |
| 29 | 19 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 17 | 31 | 56 |
| 31% | 37% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 19% | 27% |
- Honka has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4)
- Honka has the fewest matches over the total-line (2)
- Honka has the fewest scored goals in the first half (3)
- Honka has the most matches under the total-line (11)
- Honka have not yet lost a game away.
- Honka have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- RoPS has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- RoPS has the fewest scored goals (9)
- RoPS has the fewest scored goals in the second half (5)
- RoPS has the most conceded goals (30)
- RoPS has the most conceded goals in the first half (11)
- RoPS has the the worst goal difference (-21)
- 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 yet to win a game.
- 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 | HJK | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 23 | 30 |
| 2 | KuPS | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 28 |
| 3 | Inter Turku | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 26 |
| 4 | Honka | 13 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 22 |
| 5 | HIFK | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 19 |
| 6 | Ilves | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -1 | 19 |
| 7 | Lahti | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 18 |
| 8 | Mariehamn | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 17 | -2 | 18 |
| 9 | SJK | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 14 |
| 10 | Haka | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 12 | -13 | 11 |
| 11 | TPS | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -13 | 9 |
| 12 | RoPS | 14 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 30 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 17 | -21 | 2 |