Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Honka & Honka Akatemia face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Finland Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Honka Akatemia have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 3-3-4 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches.
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Honka and Honka Akatemia should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Honka form and stats
Last season their Finland Cup adventure ended in the 4th round.Overall Veikkausliiga results at home this season for Honka are 2-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Honka drew their last game, 1-1 away at Ilves.
Ahead of that match, Honka won a home game hosting Mariehamn (2-1).Honka have scored {5 league goals} here from 6 matches, not a lot. From these home matches, Honka have conceded only 5 goals.
Honka Akatemia form and stats
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to GrIFK in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 2-2. A comeback secured a 90 minute draw in the match against GrIFK. Akatemia were trailing 0-2 but refused to surrender and clawed their way back to 2-2, with Tanninen scoring the equalizer. Tanninen has scored at least one goal for this team three fixtures in a row. The competence!
A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Tampere United in the Kakkonen.Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Tanninen 6 goals |  C. Bauque 4 goals |  K. Jansen 3 goals |
Honka missing players
Honka Akatemia missing players
| Honka | Honka Akatemia | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 6 | 14 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Drew | D | 5 | 7 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | ||
| 31 | 18 | Scored | S | 29 | 60 | ||
| 25 | 9 | Conceded | C | 19 | 31 | ||
| 88% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 36% | 38% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 24% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 77% | 64% | ||
| 4% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 16% | ||
| 40% | 31% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 68% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 28% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 8% | ||
| 5.1 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.1 | ||
| 5 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4.4 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.5 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 7.4 | 8.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.3 | 10.7 | ||
| 3.3 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 6.2 | ||
| 37% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 38% | ||
| 7.7 | 7.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.5 | 8.5 | ||
| 3 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.5 | ||
| 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 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 28 |
| 2 | SJK | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 27 |
| 3 | HJK | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 26 |
| 4 | Oulu | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | -2 | 18 |
| 5 | Honka | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 16 |
| 6 | Inter Turku | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | Ilves | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | KTP | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -6 | 12 |
| 9 | Lahti | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 10 |
| 10 | Haka | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 13 | -7 | 10 |
| 11 | Mariehamn | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -8 | 6 |
| 12 | VPS | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -11 | 6 |
