Match Report
36 points separated the sides: KuPS 3rd on 41, RoPS 12th on 5. KuPS had been under-performing their position — 9th on five-round form against 3rd in the table. Per game in the league, RoPS were scoring 0.68 and conceding 2.32, KuPS 1.77 and 1.18, against a competition average of 1.41 goals per team per game.
RoPS arrived off four straight defeats. RoPS had banked 3 of the last 15 points on offer; KuPS, 10.
The sides have met 6 times in the GioScore results database: 3 wins for RoPS, 1 draw and 2 for KuPS, at 3.33 goals per meeting.
The venue was Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä in Rovaniemi, with room for 4,500 spectators. KuPS led 2-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-2.