This promises to be an action-packed encounter for HJK at Bolt Arena when the Europa Conference League tournament arrives in town and Alashkert with it. Read all about the Group Stage match here!
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Armenian Cup game only four days ago. That game was also an away game, at Banants. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
HJK's stadium, Bolt Arena, has a artifical turf surface. Alashkert have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Alashkert when playing on artifical turf; 0 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses from one match. They have scored 1 goal in these games and conceded 1.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 3300 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
HJK form and stats
This match is a Europa Conference League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 1 win, 0 draws and 3 losses in this competition. Hopes of three in a row are alive for HJK after consecutive victories at their own ground.
HJK lost their last game at Maccabi Tel Aviv (placed 1st) after a 0-3 scoreline. Midfielder Jair was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.33 (out of ten) in that game. Jair hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times and had 35 successful passes (of 37 total).
1-1 away at KuPS before that.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for HJK home games with this odds we find twelve games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in nine wins, three draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, six matches were won by at least two goals.
Alashkert form and stats
1-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Alashkert in their Premier League matches away. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa Conference League stats, they have 0 wins, 0 draws and 4 losses both home and away.
Alashkert lost away at Banants (0-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick.
Before that, Alashkert secured a home win against Banants with the score 2-1.You'll want to know how Alashkert managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found three similar matches resulting in zero away wins, zero draws and three home wins.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Alashkert are regular goalscorers on their travels. Alashkert struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 6 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
HJK and Alashkert have duelled before this season: Alashkert - HJK 2-4.Top Goalscorers
  R. Riski 6 goals |  J. Tavares da Silva 6 goals |  F. Valenčič 6 goals |
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| HJK | Alashkert | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Won | W | 1 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Lost | L | 7 | 12 | ||
| 32 | 16 | Scored | S | 12 | 23 | ||
| 36 | 22 | Conceded | C | 20 | 37 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 80% | ||
| 68% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 64% | ||
| 48% | 43% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 45% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 16% | ||
| 44% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 40% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 32% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 48% | ||
| 5.3 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.1 | 3.8 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 4.2 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 9.9 | 10.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.4 | 8.2 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 3.5 | ||
| 30% | 24% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 28% | ||
| 10 | 9.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.2 | 10.6 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 4.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 10 |
| 2 | LASK Linz | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| 3 | HJK | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -8 | 3 |
| 4 | Alashkert | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -10 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ararat-Armenia | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 22 | 37 |
| 2 | Pyunik | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 30 |
| 3 | Ararat | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 27 |
| 4 | Junior Sevan | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 20 |
| 5 | Banants | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 18 |
| 6 | Artsakh | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 16 | -3 | 18 |
| 7 | Alashkert | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | -1 | 13 |
| 8 | Van | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -12 | 9 |
| 9 | Noravank | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 13 | -12 | 9 |
| 10 | BKMA | 14 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 32 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 18 | -22 | 6 |