VPS will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind Oulu.
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.
VPS's stadium, Elisa Stadion, has a artifical turf surface. Oulu have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Oulu when playing on artifical turf; 6 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses from 16 matches. They have scored 23 goals in these games and conceded 20.
VPS form and stats
VPS are steadily winning Ykkonen games and points here at Elisa Stadion. 4 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 7 games.
A good away victory last time out for VPS, who won 6-3 against MYPA (placed 11th). Before that, VPS had a home game versus EIF which ended with a victory 1-0.
A goal frenzy last time out for VPS, with a total of 9 goals in the match against MYPA. Fun stuff to watch! What a game it was for S. Alanko when beating MYPA, applying the finishing touch to three goals!
There will be little rest for VPS after this match as they are travelling to SJK Akatemia for a Ykkonen game in only four days.
VPS have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Elisa Stadion with 13 goals in 7 league matches. VPS have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Oulu form and stats
Oulu, who have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Ykkonen, have an excellent away record in the Ykkonen so far with 4-2-0 from 6 games.
Oulu are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at SJK Akatemia (placed 12th). That result followed a home victory 4-0 versus MYPA.
After this away game Oulu return home for a Ykkonen game against KPV. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Oulu has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 9 goals from 6 games. Oulu are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 4 times in 6 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Oulu - VPS 1-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Last eight meetings between the teams: VPS won three, Oulu won one and four draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Strandvall 6 goals | S. Alanko 6 goals |  N. Jokelainen 4 goals |
VPS missing players
Oulu missing players
| VPS | Oulu | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | 13 | 1 | Scored | S | 5 | 9 | 20 |
| 19 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 69% | 71% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 67% | 62% |
| 46% | 43% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 33% | 31% |
| 38% | 43% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 17% | 15% |
| 23% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 62% | 71% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 67% | 46% |
| 23% | 29% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 33% | 54% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 3.7 | 4 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 5.5 | 5.7 |
| 4.8 | 4.7 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
| 2.2 | 2.6 | 7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100 | 49 | 5 | Total Shots | T S | 36 | 77 | 152 |
| 51 | 19 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 11 | 29 | 65 |
| 43% | 68% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 31% | 31% |
- Oulu has the fewest conceded goals (6) in Ykkonen
- Oulu has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Ykkonen
- Oulu has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Ykkonen
- Oulu has the most points from losing position (8) in Ykkonen
- Oulu have not yet lost a game.
- Oulu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Oulu have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Oulu have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Oulu haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- VPS have not yet lost a game at home.
- VPS have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- VPS have scored in all their home matches so far.
- VPS haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Oulu | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 31 |
| 2 | KTP | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 20 | 28 |
| 3 | Jaro | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 33 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 27 |
| 4 | EIF | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 22 |
| 5 | VPS | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 22 |
| 6 | MuSa | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 25 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -3 | 20 |
| 7 | MP | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | -3 | 17 |
| 8 | KPV | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -1 | 15 |
| 9 | Kajaani | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 10 | Gnistan | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 20 | -16 | 9 |
| 11 | MYPA | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 19 | -17 | 5 |
| 12 | SJK Akatemia | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 34 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 19 | -26 | 5 |