Delightful dogfight as daring SJK duels with determined Lahti

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Date: Fri 26.July
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: OmaSP Stadion (6000 seats)

Getting closer to the top teams is at stake when these two mid-table clubs battle it out. Both will be aiming to improve their league table standing, SJK in 6th and Lahti in 8th place.

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 SJK and Lahti.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Lahti have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 3-4-7 (win-draw-loss) from 14 matches.

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SJK form and stats

SJK have collected 13 points from their home games so far after 4-1-3.

SJK's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus Lahti. Before that match, a win away at KPV.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier SJK matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats (from two games).

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for SJK here at OmaSP Stadion, with less than one goal per game on average (6 from 8 games). SJK are not conceding a lot of goals here at OmaSP Stadion, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 8 matches.

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Lahti form and stats

3-2-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Lahti in their matches away.

Lahti play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting SJK. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus VPS that ended 1-1.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Lahti when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing 1 time, drawing 2 and winning 1 game.

The visitors have scored 6 goals from 9 away games, an average of less than one per game. Lahti have conceded 11 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result SJK - Lahti 0-2 entered in the official records. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: 3 wins for SJK, 4 draws and 3 wins for Lahti. Over 2,5 goals: 2 times; under 2,5 goals: 8 games.

Top Goalscorers

D. Oliynyk
7 goals / 1 assists

SJK missing players

Lahti missing players

SJK Lahti
Total Home Home vs mid Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
17 8 1 Played 1 9 17
7 4 0 Won 1 3 5
5 1 1 Drew 0 2 7
5 3 0 Lost 0 4 5
16 6 0 Scored 1 6 17
17 6 0 Conceded 0 11 19
94% 88% 0% Over 0.5 100% 89% 88%
59% 38% 0% Over 1.5 0% 56% 65%
35% 25% 0% Over 2.5 0% 11% 24%
6% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 11% 12%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 11% 12%
47% 25% 0% BTTS 0% 22% 41%
29% 50% 100% Clean Sheets 100% 44% 41%
29% 38% 100% Failed To Score 0% 44% 29%
 
4.2 5 6 Corners For (avg) 1 3.1 3.5
4.1 3.6 4 Corners Against (avg) 5 6.7 6
2.9 3.4 4 Yellow Cards (avg) 1 1.7 1.6
2 2 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Lahti have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won 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 14:00 SJK
15-08-19 VE SJK 15:30 Mariehamn
19-08-19 VE SJK 15:30 RoPS
25-08-19 VE Mariehamn 15:30 SJK
31-08-19 VE SJK 13:00 KuPS
Lahti
All Veikkausliiga Finland Cup Europa League Club Friendlies
All Home Away
30-06-19 VE Lahti 0 - 0 HIFK
05-07-19 VE Inter Turku 2 - 0 Lahti
14-07-19 VE Lahti 1 - 0 Ilves
20-07-19 VE VPS 1 - 1 Lahti
26-07-19 VE SJK 0 - 2 Lahti
04-08-19 VE Lahti 14:00 KPV
10-08-19 VE HJK 14:00 Lahti
19-08-19 VE Lahti 15:30 Honka
25-08-19 VE RoPS 15:30 Lahti
01-09-19 VE Lahti 15:30 Mariehamn

  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 15 8 5 2 19 9 7 3 4 0 10 4 8 5 1 2 9 5 10 29
2 Inter Turku 16 8 3 5 30 20 8 5 1 2 17 8 8 3 2 3 13 12 10 27
3 KuPS 16 7 6 3 25 19 8 3 3 2 11 8 8 4 3 1 14 11 6 27
4 Honka 16 8 3 5 24 19 8 4 1 3 12 9 8 4 2 2 12 10 5 27
5 HJK 17 6 8 3 19 17 8 3 4 1 11 8 9 3 4 2 8 9 2 26
6 SJK 17 7 5 5 16 17 8 4 1 3 6 6 9 3 4 2 10 11 -1 26
7 Mariehamn 15 6 4 5 23 16 8 3 1 4 12 11 7 3 3 1 11 5 7 22
8 Lahti 17 5 7 5 17 19 8 2 5 1 11 8 9 3 2 4 6 11 -2 22
9 HIFK 15 4 6 5 11 14 9 4 3 2 9 7 6 0 3 3 2 7 -3 18
10 RoPS 16 4 3 9 10 18 8 1 2 5 4 8 8 3 1 4 6 10 -8 15
11 KPV 16 2 4 10 12 30 8 1 2 5 5 14 8 1 2 5 7 16 -18 10
12 VPS 16 0 8 8 13 21 8 0 4 4 8 12 8 0 4 4 5 9 -8 8

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