National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Lahti or HIFK that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Lahti and HIFK.
Lahti form and stats
Last season, Lahti's Finland Cup journey ended in the semi-finals.0-1-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Veikkausliiga numbers at home for Lahti so far this season.
The Lahti crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Oulu here at Lahden Stadion.
Heartbreak before that as Lahti lost 0-2 at KuPS's place.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Lahti as they are travelling to their away game against Ilves in the Veikkausliiga. That match is four days after this one.
At Lahden Stadion, Lahti has the goal stats of 1-2 (for/against) from 2 league fixtures.
HIFK form and stats
Last season their Finland Cup adventure ended in the semi-finals.HIFK are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Ykkonen, having played 3 games and collected 5 points (1 win, 2 draws and 0 losses).
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. HIFK goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 450 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
HIFK play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting KaPa.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs JaPS.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and HIFK playing away, we found 7 games. Results were 2 away wins, 1 draw and 4 home wins.
HIFK's manager Okkonen has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only {1 conceded goals}. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Lahti have avoided a loss in the last 5 games (3-2-0) against HIFK.Top Goalscorers
  A. Zeqiri 3 goals | I. Sadik 3 goals |  M. Ahadi 3 goals |
Lahti missing players
HIFK missing players
| Lahti | HIFK | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Lost | L | 6 | 12 | ||
| 27 | 14 | Scored | S | 16 | 31 | ||
| 37 | 13 | Conceded | C | 27 | 49 | ||
| 84% | 90% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 70% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 40% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 40% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 10% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 32% | ||
| 52% | 60% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 20% | ||
| 4.9 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 4.8 | ||
| 4 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.7 | 6.4 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9.7 | 12.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.4 | 9.6 | ||
| 3.6 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.6 | ||
| 30% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 34% | ||
| 9 | 7.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.1 | 11.5 | ||
| 4 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.2 | 5.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | 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 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Gnistan | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 17 |
| 2 | EIF | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | MP | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | HIFK | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 |
| 5 | SJK Akatemia | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 6 | SalPa | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | JaPS | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 9 |
| 8 | TPS | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 8 |
| 9 | KaPa | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -4 | 7 |
| 10 | Jaro | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | -6 | 5 |
| 11 | JJK | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | -7 | 5 |
| 12 | KPV | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 2 |
