It's time to decide the outcome of the Europa Conference League Play-offs meeting between HJK and SSC Farul. Get ready for the match with this full betting preview!
These teams have little in common geographically as SSC Farul have to travel 2600 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for HJK and SSC Farul.
HJK form and stats
HJK was eliminated in the group stage last season in the Europa Conference League.HJK are steadily winning Veikkausliiga games and points here at Bolt Arena. 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 10 games.
HJK enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Oulu's place. The match ended 3-1 with Tenho and Ollila (2) scoring.
Before that, a defeat in the away fixture against SSC Farul in the Europa Conference League.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Veikkausliiga game versus KuPS in only three days. This game is also played here at Bolt Arena.
The HJK fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 19 goals in 10 league matches. HJK are not conceding a lot of goals here at Bolt Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 10 matches.
SSC Farul form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Flora and Banants in order to reach play-offs of Europa Conference League.Things could have gone better for SSC Farul in their Liga 1 away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa Conference League stats, they have 5 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses both home and away.
The fans enjoyed Farul's previous game versus Universitatea Craiova, a 2-0 win played at home.
Before that match, the win at home against HJK in the Europa Conference League (2-1). As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 4 similar matches played by SSC Farul in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for SSC Farul, 2 draws and 0 defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the SSC Farul manager Hagi as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against U Craiova 1948.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Farul have scored 4 goals in 3 league games away.
Head 2 Head
SSC Farul - HJK 2-1 was the result in these sides' latest h2h game, earlier this season.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Keskinen 4 goals |   I. Larie 3 goals |  T. Ollila 2 goals |
HJK missing players
SSC Farul missing players
| HJK | SSC Farul | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 14 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 37 | 16 | Scored | S | 15 | 45 | ||
| 27 | 7 | Conceded | C | 21 | 40 | ||
| 92% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 72% | 45% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 84% | ||
| 48% | 27% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 68% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 32% | ||
| 64% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 55% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 16% | ||
| 4.5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.2 | 3.8 | ||
| 4.4 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.1 | 5 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.9 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8.5 | 8.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.1 | 11.9 | ||
| 4 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4.9 | ||
| 37% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 37% | ||
| 9.1 | 6.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.1 | 10.9 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.3 | ||
| 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 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 37 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 20 | 43 |
| 2 | KuPS | 21 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 19 | 42 |
| 3 | SJK | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 29 | 23 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 38 |
| 4 | VPS | 21 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 28 | 22 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 33 |
| 5 | Honka | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 32 |
| 6 | Inter Turku | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 31 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 31 |
| 7 | Oulu | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 31 | 35 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 15 | -4 | 31 |
| 8 | Haka | 21 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 26 | 37 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 22 | -11 | 21 |
| 9 | Ilves | 21 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 18 | 24 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 9 | -6 | 20 |
| 10 | KTP | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 17 | -12 | 20 |
| 11 | Lahti | 21 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -12 | 19 |
| 12 | Mariehamn | 21 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 18 | -12 | 15 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | FCSB | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 2 | Universitatea Craiova | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 3 | CFR Cluj | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
| 4 | Petrolul 52 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | Rapid Bucuresti | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | Voluntari | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -2 | 10 |
| 7 | Sepsi | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | SSC Farul | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | Hermannstadt | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 10 | Dinamo Bucureşti | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -4 | 8 |
| 11 | Universitatea Cluj | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7 | -3 | 7 |
| 12 | UTA Arad | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 7 |
| 13 | Otelul | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 6 |
| 14 | U Craiova 1948 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 15 | Botoşani | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 3 |
| 16 | CSM Iaşi | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -7 | 3 |
