Perhaps a welcome break from league football as HJK & Inter Turku face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Finland Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
This stadium uses artifical turf, unlike Inter Turku's home stadium. The visitors last 18 games on artifical turf have ended in 6 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses.
HJK form and stats
23 points is a decent return from 11 Veikkausliiga games here at Bolt Arena for HJK. The data says 6 wins, 5 draws and 0 losses. 3W-1D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Finland Cup for HJK. The HJK fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Bolt Arena and will expect new points from this game. HJK has played eleven games in a row here without a defeat.
HJK are returning here after visiting HIFK in a Finland Cup game and winning with a 3-0 scoreline. F. Valenčič, J. Saksela and Roope Riski scored the goal(s). Ahead of that match, HJK won a home game hosting KTP (6-1).
HJK can score goals in their home matches. After 11 league matches they have found the net 27 times. From these home matches, HJK have conceded only 9 goals.
Inter Turku form and stats
They also participated in Finland Cup last season. This ended in the final.3-4-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Inter Turku in their Veikkausliiga matches away. Total Finland Cup statistics for Inter Turku: 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses.
Inter Turku had fun at their own home (Bolt Arena) last time out, beating SJK (after extra-time) 1-0. A. Hoskonen scored. A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Haka.
World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager J. Riveiro when A. Hoskonen scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 46th minute.
Inter Turku are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 11 games (in the league). 11 goals have been conceded by Inter Turku in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): HJK five wins, one draw and Inter Turku four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.HJK missing players
Inter Turku missing players
| HJK | Inter Turku | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 14 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 61 | 35 | Scored | S | 15 | 35 | ||
| 18 | 10 | Conceded | C | 12 | 18 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 84% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 72% | ||
| 60% | 57% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 28% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 20% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 52% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 28% | ||
| 44% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 56% | ||
| 8% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 24% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 14.3 | 14.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.1 | 11.1 | ||
| 7.1 | 7.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.8 | ||
| 37% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 28% | ||
| 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 | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 53 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 27 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 8 | 36 | 48 |
| 2 | Inter Turku | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 36 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 41 |
| 3 | KuPS | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 39 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 13 | 41 |
| 4 | Honka | 22 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 26 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 37 |
| 5 | Ilves | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 37 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 36 |
| 6 | Lahti | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 33 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 32 |
| 7 | SJK | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 27 | 29 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 12 | -2 | 29 |
| 8 | HIFK | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 29 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 17 | -4 | 28 |
| 9 | Mariehamn | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 29 | 43 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 24 | -14 | 23 |
| 10 | Haka | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 25 | 41 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 25 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 16 | -16 | 22 |
| 11 | TPS | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 39 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 24 | -16 | 21 |
| 12 | RoPS | 22 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 51 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 26 | -36 | 5 |