Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Honka & Mariehamn face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Finland Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Both teams have had sufficient rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an animated match!
Honka form and stats
Honka participated in Finland Cup the last season, where they reached the 4th round.5 victories, 2 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Honka have to build on here at Tapiolan Urheilupuisto in the Veikkausliiga.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Honka, as their goalkeeper Roope Paunio has completely shut out the opponents for 211 minutes in the Veikkausliiga.
It's back home for Honka, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Mariehamn away with the result 1-0. López found the net in that victory.
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Inter Turku.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Honka, as the Veikkausliiga home game vs Ilves is only four days away.
Honka are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 10 games. Honka are not conceding a lot of goals here at Tapiolan Urheilupuisto in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 10 matches.
Mariehamn form and stats
They also participated in Finland Cup last season. This ended in the 6th round.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Mariehamn so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-5 (win-draw-lose).
Home advantage was not enough for Mariehamn in their previous game as they lost hosting Honka, 0-1.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Haka.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Mariehamn manager (Ahnstrom) as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against SJK.
Mariehamn are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 10 games (in the league). It's worth mentioning that 11 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Mariehamn's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 15 goals from these trips. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
Honka have won or drawn the last 7 fixtures (3-4-0) against Mariehamn.Top Goalscorers
  C. Bauque 6 goals |  K. Jansen 3 goals |  A. Ngueukam 3 goals |
Honka missing players
Mariehamn missing players
| Honka | Mariehamn | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 6 | 7 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 11 | ||
| 29 | 17 | Scored | S | 27 | 34 | ||
| 21 | 8 | Conceded | C | 16 | 31 | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 88% | ||
| 56% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 76% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 20% | ||
| 40% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 43% | 32% | ||
| 40% | 42% | Failed to Score | F T | 7% | 28% | ||
| 5.2 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 3.9 | ||
| 4.4 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.4 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.3 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 6 | ||
| 9.4 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.8 | 8.4 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.5 | ||
| 35% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 59% | 39% | ||
| 8.6 | 7.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.5 | 9.2 | ||
| 3.5 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 4 | ||
| 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 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 30 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 19 | 41 |
| 2 | HJK | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 34 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 18 | 40 |
| 3 | SJK | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 26 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 35 |
| 4 | Oulu | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 30 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 15 | -2 | 31 |
| 5 | VPS | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 26 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 30 |
| 6 | Honka | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 29 |
| 7 | Inter Turku | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 27 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | -1 | 25 |
| 8 | Ilves | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 22 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | -4 | 20 |
| 9 | Haka | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 24 | 35 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 22 | -11 | 20 |
| 10 | KTP | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -11 | 20 |
| 11 | Lahti | 19 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -10 | 19 |
| 12 | Mariehamn | 20 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 15 | -11 | 15 |
