Classic home win, away team steals the points or a score draw? Everything is possible when the mid-table teams Honka and Ilves clash at Tapiolan Urheilupuisto.
- Honka haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Ilves haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Honka form and stats
Overall Veikkausliiga stats at home this season for Honka are 2-1-3 (wins-draw-losses).
Honka shared the glory with Inter Turku in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. Trouble was brewing at the score 0-2 against Inter Turku last time out, but a goal from Niklas Pyyhtiä completed a comeback to a draw result for Honka.
In the match before that, Honka hosted Lahti and drew the game 1-1.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Honka have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eight matches with the results: Won two, drawn four and lost two.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Honka here at Tapiolan Urheilupuisto in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 6 games). 7 goals have been conceded.
Ilves form and stats
Ilves have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Veikkausliiga, after 1-2-4 (7 played).
Ilves are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Veikkausliiga against Oulu (placed 12th).
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting KuPS's place.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Ilves in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Ilves, zero draws and four defeats.
The visitors have scored 6 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Ilves have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Honka four wins, three draws and Ilves two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. Mömmö 4 goals | E. Vertainen 4 goals |  L. Paz Kaufmann 3 goals |
Honka missing players
Ilves missing players
| Honka | Ilves | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 16 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 15 |
| 19 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 71% | 64% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 29% | 36% |
| 21% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 14% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 57% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 57% | 43% |
| 14% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 29% |
| 29% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 29% | 29% |
| 5.9 | 6.8 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 4.4 | 5 |
| 5.5 | 6.7 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 5.4 | 4.8 |
| 2 | 2.3 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.7 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.9 | 9 | 5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 10.7 | 11.1 |
| 3.8 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
| 30% | 21% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 22% | 24% |
- Honka haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Ilves haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | HJK | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 35 |
| 2 | KuPS | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 28 |
| 3 | Inter Turku | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 26 |
| 4 | Lahti | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 26 |
| 5 | SJK | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 24 |
| 6 | HIFK | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 |
| 7 | Ilves | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -1 | 20 |
| 8 | Honka | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | -3 | 15 |
| 9 | Mariehamn | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -12 | 11 |
| 10 | Haka | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 9 |
| 11 | KTP | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -13 | 8 |
| 12 | Oulu | 14 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 14 | -15 | 7 |