Perhaps a welcome break from league football as EIF & SalPa face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Ykköscup. All the pre-match information is available here!
EIF's stadium, Ekenäs Centrumplan, has a artifical turf surface. SalPa 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 SalPa when playing on artifical turf; 10 wins, 0 draws and 7 losses from 17 matches. They have scored {23 goals} in these games and conceded 21.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
EIF form and stats
Last season their Ykköscup adventure ended in the semi-finals.EIF's previous fixture was a Ykköscup game also played at home, ending 3-1 against KäPa. The home team are looking to build on that result.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Jaro (0-2).The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how EIF have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won 6 times, drawn 2 and lost 6.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for EIF, who have participated in one training match. EIF have won 0 of these, drawn 0 and were beaten in 1 game.
SalPa form and stats
The supporters enjoyed SalPa's previous match versus TPS, a Ykköscup win (2-0) played at home.
Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Honka Akatemia.SalPa are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.
Just as the home team, SalPa have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 1 SalPa win, 1 draw and 1 loss.
Head 2 Head
The 4 latest meetings involving these sides have all ended as EIF wins. Another one?EIF missing players
SalPa missing players
| EIF | SalPa | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 7 | 17 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 5 | ||
| 44 | 21 | Scored | S | 17 | 48 | ||
| 44 | 13 | Conceded | C | 12 | 24 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 76% | ||
| 76% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 31% | 52% | ||
| 52% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 10% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 60% | 30% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 46% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 30% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 4% | ||
| 4.7 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.5 | ||
| 4.8 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 4.8 | ||
| 2.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.8 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 8.5 | 9.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 10.6 | ||
| 3.7 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4.4 | ||
| 48% | 51% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 45% | ||
| 8.5 | 6.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.8 | 7.8 | ||
| 4.5 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.8 | ||
| 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 | SalPa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | KäPa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 4 | TPS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
