📊 Form Guide

VPS Vaasa

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VPS Vaasa will be looking for another win after the 1-2 Veikkausliiga triumph versus AC Oulu.

For VPS Vaasa, goals were scored by Miika Niemi (59') and Alfie Cicale (82'). Dimitris Metaxas (71') scored for AC Oulu.

VPS Vaasa haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, hitting the target in each and every one of their last 6 matches.

They’ve totted up the amount of 10 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 5. Nevertheless, we must now wait to see whether the trend might be sustained in this next game.

Looking at the pre-match facts, VPS Vaasa:

• have not been beaten in the league by FC Lahti in their previous 3 games.
• are undefeated in their last 9 league matches at home. A very good run at home.

FC Lahti

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of KuPS in Veikkausliiga competition, FC Lahti and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

Arttu Heinonen (19') was the scorer for KuPS.

The forward players for FC Lahti have failed to get amongst the goals in their past six encounters, netting the disappointing return of only 2. In those fixtures, Mustat kuhnurit have also seen the collective goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 11.

Their past results show that FC Lahti:

• remain undefeated by VPS Vaasa when they've played them away from home in the last 5 matches in the league. Away fans have certainly had plenty to cheer about.
• are without an away win for the past 7 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 20/09/2019 shows us that VPS Vaasa have won 3 of these & FC Lahti 2, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

17 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 12 from Vepsi and 5 coming from Mustat kuhnurit. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The last league meeting between these sides was Veikkausliiga match day 20 on 18/08/2023 when it finished FC Lahti 0-2 VPS Vaasa.

On that occasion, FC Lahti managed 43% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 4 on target.

For their opponents, VPS Vaasa got 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Evgeniy Bashkirov (54') and Peter Godly Michael (76') scored.

The match was refereed by Oskari Hämäläinen.

🗞️ Team News: VPS Vaasa

The VPS Vaasa boss Jussi Nuorela has a full complement, with no fitness worries to speak of before this match with a fully injury-free squad available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: FC Lahti

Due to a completely healthy group available to select from, the FC Lahti boss Toni Lindberg doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all coming into this game.

💭 Prediction

For this match, we think that VPS Vaasa look set to score a couple of goals against FC Lahti, who could well struggle to score.

Accordingly, we see a controlled 2-0 margin for VPS Vaasa at the end of the match.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 14:09 03/05/2024