National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's HJK or Honka that keep their silverware dream alive.
This field has artifical turf, which is not Honka's usual surface at their own football field. When appearing on artifical turf Honka have performed like this: Played 13 matches with the outcome 3 wins, 3 draws and 7 defeats with the goal stats 14-20 (scored/conceded).
It's no vacation for neither HJK nor Honka as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
HJK form and stats
Last season their Finland Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.HJK have played 5 Veikkausliiga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-1-0 (wins-draws-losses).
HJK travelled for their previous game, a trip to Mariehamn that ended 0-0.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Ilves that finished 1-1.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from HJK's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 4 games, won 2 matches, drawn 1 and lost 1.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as SJK are coming to town in four days.
HJK are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (13 goals in 5 games). HJK have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only {2 goals}.
Honka form and stats
Last season their Finland Cup adventure ended in the 4th round.Playing away, Honka have won 2 games, drawn 2 and suffered 1 defeat in the Veikkausliiga this season.
Honka have much to to set right after their shock defeat (0-1) to KTP in their previous game, played at their own home ground.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Oulu at their stadium, the result 3-1.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Honka manager Vasara as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Inter Turku.
They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head data (for the preceeding ten meetings): HJK won five games, three matches ended with a tie and Honka got two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Keskinen 4 goals | T. Ollila 2 goals |  A. Tanaka 2 goals |
HJK missing players
Honka missing players
| HJK | Honka | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 9 | Won | W | 3 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 46 | 34 | Scored | S | 13 | 34 | ||
| 28 | 10 | Conceded | C | 15 | 25 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 82% | 84% | ||
| 84% | 93% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 68% | ||
| 56% | 57% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 45% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 8% | ||
| 48% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 40% | ||
| 36% | 43% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 40% | ||
| 4.6 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5.2 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1.6 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 8.9 | 9.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.8 | 7.2 | ||
| 4.4 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.9 | ||
| 42% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 59% | 47% | ||
| 8.2 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.9 | 7.8 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.6 | 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 | SJK | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 20 |
| 2 | HJK | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 19 |
| 3 | KuPS | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 19 |
| 4 | Oulu | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | -2 | 14 |
| 5 | Honka | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| 6 | Ilves | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Haka | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 9 |
| 8 | KTP | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -5 | 9 |
| 9 | Inter Turku | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -1 | 7 |
| 10 | Mariehamn | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 11 | Lahti | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 6 |
| 12 | VPS | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 6 |
