It's game one of two in the Europa League as HJK host Silkeborg. This is a Play-offs fixture played over two legs and nothing will be decided tonight.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1400 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
The visiting Silkeborg played their last game only four days ago, a Superliga match. That game, against Viborg, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Silkeborg.
HJK form and stats
HJK have not come this way in the Europa League without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Maribor. HJK participated in Europa League the last season, where they reached the play-offs and lost against Fenerbahce.The home supporters can't complain about results here at Bolt Arena as HJK have scored 16 goals to get 19 points from 9 games. The overall stats in the Veikkausliiga are 6-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).
HJK's previous fixture was a Europa League game also played at their home, finishing 1-0 against Maribor. The home side hope to to repeat that performance.
1-1 away at Oulu before that.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for HJK as they are travelling to their away game against Haka in the Veikkausliiga. That match is three days after this one.
A decent goal production from HJK in their home games so far, with 16 goals from 9 league matches. HJK have conceded 11 in these home matches.
Silkeborg form and stats
Things could have gone better for Silkeborg in their Superliga away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right.
Two away games in a row for Silkeborg, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus Viborg. Helenius, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.13. Helenius hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against AaB in the Superliga.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Superliga trip to Nordsjælland.
Silkeborg has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 5 goals from 3 games. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Silkeborg have conceded 5 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  N. Helenius 4 goals |   R. Riski 2 goals |  R. Riski 2 goals |
HJK missing players
Silkeborg missing players
| HJK | Silkeborg | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 13 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 34 | 18 | Scored | S | 22 | 44 | ||
| 25 | 13 | Conceded | C | 19 | 29 | ||
| 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 84% | ||
| 44% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 16% | ||
| 48% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 85% | 60% | ||
| 44% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 16% | ||
| 7.6 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.2 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.9 | 0.9 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 10.8 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.3 | 13.3 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5.3 | ||
| 29% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 33% | ||
| 6 | 5.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.6 | 10.2 | ||
| 2.7 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | KuPS | 18 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 32 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 40 |
| 2 | Honka | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 23 | 37 |
| 3 | HJK | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 37 |
| 4 | Haka | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 32 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 19 | -2 | 28 |
| 5 | Inter Turku | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 32 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 25 |
| 6 | Oulu | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 27 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 14 | -2 | 25 |
| 7 | SJK | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -5 | 22 |
| 8 | VPS | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 36 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 16 | 7 | 21 |
| 9 | Ilves | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 31 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 15 | -8 | 20 |
| 10 | Mariehamn | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 17 | -7 | 18 |
| 11 | Lahti | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 38 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 22 | -22 | 14 |
| 12 | HIFK | 17 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 33 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -22 | 8 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Nordsjælland | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 2 | Silkeborg | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | Randers | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | Viborg | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 | Horsens | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 6 | AGF | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 7 | Midtjylland | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | København | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 | Brøndby | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -4 | 6 |
| 10 | Lyngby | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 2 |
| 11 | AaB | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 2 |
| 12 | OB | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -9 | 1 |
