There's no exiting this stadium without a winner tonight as it's the second leg of the Europa League Play-offs meeting between Silkeborg and HJK. Game on!
HJK have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1400 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
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.
Silkeborg form and stats
As mentioned below, Silkeborg are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 Superliga games.
A strong away win for Silkeborg against Nordsjælland the last match, as Adamsen (2) were on target. The talented striker Adamsen bettered all teammates in that fixture and received a match rating of 8.53 out of 10. Adamsen scored two goals and hit one key pass.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as OB are coming to town in three days.
Early season league goal statistics from Silkeborg's 2 home games: 5 goals, 1 conceded.
HJK form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Maribor in order to reach play-offs of Europa League. HJK's mission in Europa League last season failed in the play-offs against Fenerbahce.HJK's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed HJK collect 21 points from their 10 away matches in the Veikkausliiga. 6 victories and 3 draws have created these points (and only 1 defeat). Total Europa League statistics for HJK: 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses.
It's the second away game in a row for HJK, but there's smiles all around after the 3-0 victory versus Haka last time out. It was a convincing performance from HJK when Haka were beaten. The team "killed" the match in the first half leading 3-0 and the second half was comfortable. Halme, Olusanya and Radulović scored their goals.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting SJK in just three days.
HJK are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 13 away goals from 10 games (in the league). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (5 so far).
Head 2 Head
HJK - Silkeborg 1-0 was the end result in these contenders' last head to head fixture, played this season.
Top Goalscorers
  N. Helenius 4 goals |  T. Adamsen 3 goals |  N. Vallys 2 goals |
Silkeborg missing players
HJK missing players
| Silkeborg | HJK | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 8 | Won | W | 6 | 14 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 5 | 6 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | ||
| 45 | 22 | Scored | S | 18 | 36 | ||
| 29 | 10 | Conceded | C | 12 | 21 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 79% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 64% | ||
| 60% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 14% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 57% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 20% | ||
| 5 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.1 | 7.2 | ||
| 4.7 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 3.6 | ||
| 0.9 | 0.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.8 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 12.6 | 14.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 10.5 | ||
| 4.9 | 6.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 4.6 | ||
| 37% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 32% | ||
| 10.1 | 9.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.6 | 5.9 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 2.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Silkeborg | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
| 2 | AGF | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| 3 | Nordsjælland | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | Randers | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| 5 | København | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | Viborg | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 7 | Horsens | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 8 | Midtjylland | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 | Brøndby | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -5 | 6 |
| 10 | AaB | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -4 | 5 |
| 11 | Lyngby | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -6 | 2 |
| 12 | OB | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -9 | 1 |
| 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 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 33 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 40 |
| 2 | HJK | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 40 |
| 3 | Honka | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 23 | 37 |
| 4 | Oulu | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 28 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 14 | -1 | 28 |
| 5 | SJK | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 27 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -2 | 28 |
| 6 | Haka | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 30 | 35 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 19 | -5 | 28 |
| 7 | Inter Turku | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 32 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 25 |
| 8 | Ilves | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 32 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 16 | -4 | 23 |
| 9 | VPS | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 38 | 32 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 16 | 6 | 21 |
| 10 | Mariehamn | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 17 | -11 | 18 |
| 11 | Lahti | 19 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 40 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 24 | -21 | 17 |
| 12 | HIFK | 18 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 35 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -24 | 8 |
