It's still early in the Veikkausliiga season, but we are learning more and more about the teams. Here is the RoPS - Ilves preview!
It's no vacation for neither RoPS nor Ilves 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.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Ilves have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 4-4-7 (win-draw-loss) from 15 matches.
RoPS form and stats
RoPS have less points than they have played home games in the Veikkausliiga so far. Their two previous attempts here have produced 1 point.
The home supporters saw a 2-2 draw versus Haka in the Veikkausliiga last time out and are looking for a win here. Preceding that match was a defeat to HIFK (0-1).
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the RoPS at home in the league. 2 on target and 3 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Ilves form and stats
Ilves, who have the most conceded goals (8) in Veikkausliiga, are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Veikkausliiga, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).
Ilves played 0-0 against KuPS in their previous match. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Inter Turku wasn't a success with a 1-5 loss.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Veikkausliiga trip to HJK.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Ilves has managed 2 goals and let in 5 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): RoPS four wins, two draws and Ilves four victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  I. Mettälä 2 goals |   T. Kaukua 1 goals | A. Kokko 1 goals |
RoPS missing players
Ilves missing players
| RoPS | Ilves | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| 67% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 67% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 67% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 67% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 1.7 | 2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.5 | 5 |
| 8 | 7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 5 | 5 |
| 2 | 1.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 26 | 20 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 18 | 53 |
| 9 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 9 | 22 |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 22% | 27% |
- Ilves has the most conceded goals (8)
- Ilves has the most conceded goals in the first half (4)
- Ilves has the most points from losing position (3)
- Ilves has the most scored goals in the second half (6)
| RoPS | Last season | Ilves | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 27 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 27 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 7 | 13 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 23 | 12 | Scored | S | 16 | 34 | ||
| 35 | 12 | Conceded | C | 12 | 25 | ||
| 93% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 89% | ||
| 59% | 54% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 54% | 59% | ||
| 44% | 38% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 37% | ||
| 15% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 22% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 7% | ||
| 37% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 41% | ||
| 26% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 37% | ||
| 44% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 33% | ||
| 4 | 4.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.2 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 3.3 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.4 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 211 | 94 | Total Shots | T S | 117 | 319 | ||
| 91 | 40 | Shots on Target | S O | 39 | 109 | ||
| 25% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 31% | ||
| 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 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| 2 | KuPS | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | Ilves | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 4 | HJK | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 5 | Honka | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Mariehamn | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | SJK | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | HIFK | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -2 | 3 |
| 9 | Haka | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 2 |
| 10 | RoPS | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 1 |
| 11 | Lahti | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 1 |
| 12 | TPS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -4 | 0 |