National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's HJS Akatemia or Haka that keep their silverware dream alive.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Haka have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 3-2-6 (win-draw-loss) from eleven matches.
HJS Akatemia have less rest than Haka in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Kakkonen game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Honka Akatemia, was also a home game here at Kaurialan kenttä. The away team is better rested.
HJS Akatemia form and stats
Akatemia's previous game was also played at home, ending 5-2 versus Honka Akatemia. The home side are looking to build on that result. A goal frenzy last time out for HJS Akatemia, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Honka Akatemia. Fun stuff to watch!
Before that, HJS Akatemia played out a Kakkonen draw 2-2 when visiting Jazz.HJS Akatemia are traveling soon after this match as the Kakkonen match at KaaPo awaits in four days.
Haka form and stats
Last season their Finland Cup adventure ended in the group stage.1 win, 0 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Haka playing as the away team in the Veikkausliiga this season.
Haka delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Lahti in their previous fixture.
hometeam won
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Mariehamn in just four days.
Haka have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 5 league away games 6 goals have been scored. Haka have conceded 12 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  E. Raittinen 4 goals |  P. Mokuma 2 goals |  S. Zarokostas 2 goals |
HJS Akatemia missing players
Haka missing players
| HJS Akatemia | Haka | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Won | W | 8 | 12 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 7 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 39 | 20 | Scored | S | 26 | 38 | ||
| 38 | 23 | Conceded | C | 19 | 29 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 93% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 82% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 55% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 16% | ||
| 12% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 16% | ||
| 68% | 73% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 60% | ||
| 12% | 9% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 7% | 16% | ||
| 5.9 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 6 | ||
| 5.1 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 11.7 | 12.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 10.8 | ||
| 5 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4.7 | ||
| 29% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 32% | ||
| 10.4 | 11.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.1 | 8.2 | ||
| 4.9 | 5.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.7 | ||
| 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 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 26 |
| 2 | HJK | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 26 |
| 3 | Honka | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 17 |
| 4 | Oulu | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 5 | Inter Turku | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | Ilves | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 12 |
| 7 | Haka | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 11 |
| 8 | VPS | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 9 | SJK | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 10 |
| 10 | Lahti | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | -7 | 9 |
| 11 | Mariehamn | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -7 | 7 |
| 12 | HIFK | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -9 | 3 |
