TPV beat ROPS Rovaniemi 6:3 in a Ykkönen Group Stage match on 1 August 2026. The result moved the hosts to 24 points in ninth place and left the visitors on 40 points in second. It was a game decided by moments rather than control, with TPV finding a way through despite having less possession.
O. Suutari opened the scoring in the thirteenth minute, and J. Venemies doubled the lead before half-time. ROPS pulled one back through E. Riikonen in the fortieth, but A. Mekki restored the two-goal advantage after the break. By then the visitors had already seen V. Puustinen come off for TPV.
R. Kostiainen brought ROPS within three again in the sixty-first, but O. Suutari struck his second in the sixty-third. S. Sipila added a fifth for TPV in the seventy-fifth minute, and a sixth goal arrived in the ninety-fourth minute. The visitors made three substitutions in the final quarter without responding.
TPV recorded six shots on target from eight attempts, while ROPS managed five on target from eight. The hosts had 107 attacks against 116 for the visitors, and possession sat at 44 per cent to 56. B. Nijgh received a yellow card in the eighty-seventh minute for ROPS.
The win lifted TPV to 24 points from 22 games, while ROPS remained on 40 points but lost ground in the race for promotion. Both sides had lost their previous outings, so this result ended two separate runs of disappointment.