SJK fights KuPS in Veikkausliiga battle

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Date: Sat 31.August
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: OmaSP Stadion (6000 seats)

SJK will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind KuPS.

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.

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SJK form and stats

When playing at home in the Veikkausliiga, SJK, who have the fewest scored goals (16) in Veikkausliiga, have managed 4 wins, 2 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 10 games.

In their previous game, the manager B. Page led his SJK to a defeat in the Veikkausliiga match away at Mariehamn. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at OmaSP Stadion. Preceding that game was the home draw versus RoPS that ended 0-0.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for SJK here at OmaSP Stadion in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (6 from 10 games). SJK have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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KuPS form and stats

The visitors are W5-D3-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Veikkausliiga.

The supporters enjoyed KuPS's previous game versus VPS, a Veikkausliiga 5-0 win played at home. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Ilves.

KuPS are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 17 times in 10 away games so far. As opposed to that, KuPS have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

SJK and KuPS have met before this season: KuPS - SJK 0-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 3 SJK victories, 3 draws and 4 KuPS wins. 5 of these games ended with three goals or more, 5 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

D. Oliynyk
7 goals / 1 assists
Rangel
7 goals / 1 assists
P. Pennanen
5 goals / 5 assists

SJK missing players

KuPS missing players

SJK KuPS
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
21 10 3 Played 3 10 21
7 4 1 Won 2 5 10
7 2 1 Drew 1 3 7
7 4 1 Lost 0 2 4
16 6 2 Scored 9 17 36
20 8 2 Conceded 7 13 22
86% 80% 67% Over 0.5 100% 100% 90%
52% 40% 33% Over 1.5 100% 80% 71%
29% 20% 33% Over 2.5 100% 50% 48%
5% 0% 0% Over 3.5 67% 20% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 67% 20% 19%
38% 20% 33% BTTS 100% 70% 52%
33% 50% 33% Clean Sheets 0% 20% 33%
43% 50% 67% Failed To Score 0% 10% 24%
 
4.4 5 4.3 Corners For (avg) 3.3 3.1 4.5
4.5 4.3 4.3 Corners Against (avg) 8.3 5.6 5.1
2.7 3.1 4.7 Yellow Cards (avg) 2.7 1.9 1.7
3 2 2 Red Cards 0 0 1
Key stats this season:
  • KuPS have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • KuPS have scored more than double the goals of SJK.
  • KuPS have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • KuPS haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

SJK
All Veikkausliiga Finland Cup Europa League Club Friendlies
All Home Away
01-07-19 VE SJK 2 - 1 Inter Turku
07-07-19 VE Ilves 3 - 0 SJK
13-07-19 VE SJK 1 - 0 VPS
20-07-19 VE KPV 1 - 2 SJK
26-07-19 VE SJK 0 - 2 Lahti
10-08-19 VE Honka 0 - 0 SJK
15-08-19 VE SJK 0 - 2 Mariehamn
19-08-19 VE SJK 0 - 0 RoPS
25-08-19 VE Mariehamn 1 - 0 SJK
31-08-19 VE SJK 13:00 KuPS
KuPS
All Veikkausliiga Finland Cup Europa League Club Friendlies
All Home Away
18-07-19 EL Vitebsk 1 - 1 KuPS
21-07-19 VE KuPS 0 - 0 Mariehamn
25-07-19 EL Legia Warszawa 1 - 0 KuPS
28-07-19 VE KPV 2 - 1 KuPS
01-08-19 EL KuPS 0 - 0 Legia Warszawa
04-08-19 VE KuPS 1 - 1 HIFK
10-08-19 VE KuPS 2 - 0 Inter Turku
16-08-19 VE Ilves 0 - 2 KuPS
24-08-19 VE KuPS 5 - 0 VPS
31-08-19 VE SJK 13:00 KuPS

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Ilves 21 11 7 3 29 17 10 4 5 1 15 9 11 7 2 2 14 8 12 40
2 Inter Turku 21 12 3 6 38 25 11 8 1 2 23 11 10 4 2 4 15 14 13 39
3 KuPS 21 10 7 4 36 22 11 5 4 2 19 9 10 5 3 2 17 13 14 37
4 HJK 21 8 9 4 26 20 10 4 5 1 16 9 11 4 4 3 10 11 6 33
5 Honka 21 9 4 8 30 27 11 4 2 5 13 12 10 5 2 3 17 15 3 31
6 Mariehamn 21 8 4 9 28 23 11 4 1 6 14 15 10 4 3 3 14 8 5 28
7 SJK 21 7 7 7 16 20 10 4 2 4 6 8 11 3 5 3 10 12 -4 28
8 Lahti 21 7 7 7 21 28 10 4 5 1 15 10 11 3 2 6 6 18 -7 28
9 HIFK 21 6 8 7 23 26 11 5 4 2 14 11 10 1 4 5 9 15 -3 26
10 RoPS 21 6 5 10 17 23 11 3 2 6 9 11 10 3 3 4 8 12 -6 23
11 KPV 21 4 4 13 19 38 10 3 2 5 9 16 11 1 2 8 10 22 -19 16
12 VPS 21 1 9 11 19 33 10 1 4 5 12 16 11 0 5 6 7 17 -14 12

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