With the nervous opening game out of the way it’s time for the second Ykkonen game of the season. JIPPO look forward to welcoming RoPS in front of their home support.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
This stadium uses grass, unlike RoPS's home stadium. The visitors last 24 games on grass have ended in 9 wins, 4 draws and 11 losses.
JIPPO form and stats
Last season, JIPPO's league statistics were 12 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss, resulting in a 1st position in the Kakkonen. Over these 17 matches they scored 31 goals and conceded 10. Playing at home last season JIPPO managed 6-3-0 (win-draw-lost) with 18 goals and 5 conceded. In general it's been a long time since JIPPO tasted defeat here at Mehtimäki tekonurmi, as they have taken at least one point from their last twelve home games in the league.
Heartbreak before that as JIPPO lost 0-5 at MP's place.
JIPPO are traveling soon after this match as the Ykkonen match at EIF awaits in three days.
RoPS form and stats
Let's have a look at how RoPS performed last season in the Veikkausliiga: They landed a 12th position in the league table after playing out 1 victory, 2 draws and 19 defeats. In total they scored 15 and conceded 51 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 0 and lost 10 with 5/26 goals scored/conceded. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in RoPS's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus HIFK.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting PK-35 in just three days.
Head 2 Head
JIPPO-RoPS H2H statistics last nine meetings regardless of arena: JIPPO zero wins, RoPS five wins, four draws. four of these nine matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).JIPPO missing players
RoPS missing players
| JIPPO | RoPS | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| JIPPO | Last season | RoPS | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 17 | 9 | Played | P | 11 | 22 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 10 | 19 | ||
| 31 | 18 | Scored | S | 5 | 15 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Conceded | C | 26 | 51 | ||
| 94% | 89% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 82% | 78% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 77% | ||
| 41% | 44% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 59% | ||
| 24% | 44% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 45% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 18% | ||
| 35% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 27% | 41% | ||
| 59% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 5% | ||
| 12% | 11% | Failed to Score | F T | 64% | 55% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 9.9 | 10.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.5 | 5.9 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.1 | 2.4 | ||
| 40% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 29% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | EIF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | KPV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | MP | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | RoPS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | TPS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | VPS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | JIPPO | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | MuSa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Jaro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Klubi-04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 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 | JIPPO | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 21 | 40 |
| 2 | JS Hercules | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 14 | 36 |
| 3 | RoPS II | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 32 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 29 |
| 4 | JBK | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 26 |
| 5 | KuFu-98 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 34 | 35 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 20 | -1 | 26 |
| 6 | JJK | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 30 | 31 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 23 | -1 | 26 |
| 7 | Vaajakoski | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 29 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 17 | -1 | 24 |
| 8 | PS Kemi | 17 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 28 | 32 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 24 | -4 | 21 |
| 9 | GBK | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 30 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 19 |
| 10 | VIFK | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 21 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -9 | 18 |
| 11 | OLS | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 20 | 29 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 18 | -9 | 17 |
| 12 | Kiisto | 17 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 36 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -21 | 8 |
| 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 | HJK | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 53 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 27 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 8 | 36 | 48 |
| 2 | Inter Turku | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 36 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 41 |
| 3 | KuPS | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 39 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 13 | 41 |
| 4 | Honka | 22 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 26 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 37 |
| 5 | Ilves | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 37 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 36 |
| 6 | Lahti | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 33 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 32 |
| 7 | SJK | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 27 | 29 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 12 | -2 | 29 |
| 8 | HIFK | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 29 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 17 | -4 | 28 |
| 9 | Mariehamn | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 29 | 43 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 24 | -14 | 23 |
| 10 | Haka | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 25 | 41 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 25 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 16 | -16 | 22 |
| 11 | TPS | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 39 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 24 | -16 | 21 |
| 12 | RoPS | 22 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 51 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 26 | -36 | 5 |