About Match
On paper the standings are lopsided — KuPS 1st with 43 points, Gnistan 1st with 4, 39 apart. KuPS rank just 19th in the league on five-round form despite their 1st table position. Per game in the league, KuPS score 1.73 and conceding 1.05, Gnistan 1.5 and 1, against a competition average of 1.26 goals per team per game.
Gnistan are unbeaten in 6, having scored in 6 consecutive games. Over the last five, KuPS have taken 5 of 15 points to Gnistan's 11.
GioScore's database holds 9 meetings between the two: 6 for KuPS, 0 for Gnistan and 3 drawn, at 2.78 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 33% of the wins in this fixture.
Savon Sanomat Areena in Kuopio stages the fixture, a ground that holds 5,300.