Oulu favourites for feisty fight facing EIF

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.

This pitch has grass, which is not EIF's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass EIF have performed like this: Played 32 matches resulting in 5 wins, 5 draws and 22 defeats with the goal stats 28-74 (scored/conceded).

Oulu form and stats

Oulu's struggle is real here at Raatin stadion with only 5 points collected from 8 games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly 0-5-3. Oulu are slowly digging their own grave here at Raatin stadion with the depressing streak of not having won a home game in nine attempts. The last victory here came in the MuSa match.

Happy days for Oulu in their previous game, a Ykkonen match away at MYPA that ended with a 2-0 victory. A defeat was the result before that one, 3-4 away at Jaro.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Oulu's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played one game, won 1 match, drawn 0 and lost 0.

Oulu aren't scoring a lot here at Raatin stadion with only 6 goals from 8 games. 9 goals have been conceded.

EIF form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for EIF so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-6 (win-draw-lose).

EIF are travelling after their nice 5-1 home win in the Ykkonen against MuSa. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Haka wasn't a success with a 2-6 loss.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and EIF playing away, we found three games. Results were 0 away wins, 0 draws and 3 home wins.

EIF are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 8 games. EIF are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 9 goals in these matches.

Head 2 Head

EIF - Oulu 0-3 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Oulu won 7, EIF won 2 and 1 draw. 4 games with over 2,5 goals, 6 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

A. Ollila 7 goals

Z. Ekström 4 goals

Oulu missing players

EIF missing players