Match Report
3 points and 3 places separated them: Ilves 1st with 6, VPS 4th with 3. Ilves's recent output lagged their position: 14th on form over five rounds while 1st in the table. Per game in the league, Ilves were scoring 2.5 and conceding 0.5, VPS 0.5 and 0.5, against a competition average of 1.26 goals per team per game.
Recent form was uneven: 9/15 points for Ilves, 3/15 for VPS.
The head-to-head ledger counts 10 games: 4 Ilves wins, 3 for VPS, 3 draws, at 2.8 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 40% of the wins in this fixture. Shutting the other side out is rare here — both scored in 70% of the meetings. Recent editions have opened up: 3.6 goals per game across the last five meetings against 2.8 historically.
With 83 matches recorded and 1.7 yellow cards per game, M. Roth was the man in the middle. Tammelan Stadion, capacity 8,077, hosted the game. VPS led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-1.
Goal scorers
VPS: Simon Lindholm (9')
Key stats
Possession: Ilves 56% · VPS 44% · Total shots: 12-13 · On target: 3-6 · Corners: 9-2