It's time to decide the outcome of the Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round meeting between HJK and Malmö FF. Get ready for the match with this full betting preview!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
5-4-5 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Malmö FF when playing away games on artifical turf, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has grass). Their goal statistics from those 14 matches are 22-18 (scored/conceded).
It's quite the trip for Malmö FF when visiting HJK as the cities are 1000 kilometers apart.
HJK form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Champions League for HJK, as the manager T. Koskela led his troops to eliminate Buducnost, and reach the 2nd Qualifying Round. HJK participated in Champions League the last season, where they reached the 2nd qualifying round.6-0-0 is the performance here at Bolt Arena so far in the Veikkausliiga, giving HJK a total of 18 from their 6 games here. Outstanding results! 2W-0D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for HJK. In general it's been a long time since HJK tasted defeat here at Bolt Arena, as they have taken at least one point from their last 17 home games in the league.
HJK's previous game was a Veikkausliiga match also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Haka. The home side are looking to build on that result.
Heartbreak before that as HJK lost 1-2 at Malmö FF's place.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for HJK, as the Veikkausliiga home game vs SJK is only four days away.
HJK are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Bolt Arena in their league games, having scored an impressive 15 goals in 6 matches. HJK have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Malmö FF form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Riga in order to reach 2nd qualifying round of Champions League. Malmö's mission in Europa League last season failed in the play-offs.4-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Malmö FF in their Allsvenskan matches away. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Champions League stats, they have 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away. Malmö FF has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.
Malmö have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Johan Dahlin. It's been 277 minutes since they last conceded in Allsvenskan.
Two travels in a row for Malmö FF, whose manager J. Dahl Tomasson could celebrate last time after the Allsvenskan win against Mjallby.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus HJK in the Champions League.With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Malmö FF are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Malmö FF have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Malmö FF - HJK 2-1. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's zero HJK victories, zero draws and two Malmö FF wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Čolak 7 goals |  V. Birmančević 6 goals |   F. Valenčič 5 goals |
HJK missing players
Malmö FF missing players
| HJK | Malmö FF | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 11 | Won | W | 5 | 16 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 58 | 34 | Scored | S | 19 | 52 | ||
| 14 | 8 | Conceded | C | 11 | 25 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 90% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 64% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 30% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 20% | ||
| 44% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 60% | ||
| 56% | 46% | Clean Sheets | C S | 30% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 10% | 8% | ||
| 6.2 | 7.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.4 | 6 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 12.1 | 14.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17 | 16.6 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 5.7 | ||
| 44% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 39% | ||
| 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 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 34 |
| 2 | KuPS | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 25 |
| 3 | SJK | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 23 |
| 4 | Inter Turku | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 22 |
| 5 | Lahti | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 22 |
| 6 | HIFK | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 |
| 7 | Ilves | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 17 |
| 8 | Honka | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | -3 | 13 |
| 9 | Mariehamn | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -10 | 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 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -10 | 8 |
| 12 | Oulu | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -14 | 7 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Malmö FF | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 29 |
| 2 | Djurgården | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 24 |
| 3 | Elfsborg | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 22 |
| 4 | AIK | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 20 |
| 5 | Hammarby | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 18 |
| 6 | Norrköping | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| 7 | IFK Göteborg | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 |
| 8 | Häcken | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| 9 | Sirius | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 19 | -9 | 15 |
| 10 | Kalmar | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -2 | 14 |
| 11 | Degerfors | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -7 | 14 |
| 12 | Halmstad | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 12 |
| 13 | Mjallby | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -6 | 10 |
| 14 | Varberg | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 9 |
| 15 | Östersunds FK | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -3 | 8 |
| 16 | Örebro | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 16 | -17 | 7 |
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