With the edgy opening match finished it’s time for the second League Cup battle of the season. Haka are eager to welcome Ilves in front of their stadium regulars.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Haka form and stats
In the previous season, Haka's league stats were 11 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses, providing 4th spot in the Veikkausliiga. Over these 22 matches they scored {36 goals} and let in 38. Performing at home in the former season Haka produced 7-2-2 (win-draw-lost) with {19 goals} and 17 conceded.
Haka lost their last game at VPS (placed 1st) after a 1-2 scoreline.
Ahead of that match, Haka lost 1-2 at home to VPS.This is expected to be a close game, with Haka perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Haka as a small favourite), we find 5 games. Haka has won 2 of these, drawn 1 and lost 2.
Ilves form and stats
Let's have a look at how Ilves performed last season in the Veikkausliiga: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 6 victories, 7 draws and 9 defeats. In total they scored 31 and conceded {36 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 6 and lost 3 with 16/16 goals scored/conceded. The visitors settled for one point in their first League Cup away game of the season. During their previous season 2 away games resulted in 2 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Oulu (placed 4th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 0-0.
Preceding that game was the away Veikkausliiga victory against Oulu with the score of 2-0.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Ilves playing away and similar expectations, we found 7 relevant matches. Results were 0 Ilves wins, 1 draw and 6 defeats.
It's early days yet, but Ilves has scored 0 and conceded 0 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Haka have won at least one point in the last 4 matches (3-1-0) facing Ilves.Haka missing players
Ilves missing players
| Haka | Ilves | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Haka | Last season | Ilves | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 29 | 14 | Played | P | 13 | 27 | ||
| 14 | 8 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 6 | 7 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 3 | 11 | ||
| 44 | 22 | Scored | S | 23 | 43 | ||
| 42 | 20 | Conceded | C | 17 | 43 | ||
| 97% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 93% | ||
| 86% | 93% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 78% | ||
| 59% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 63% | ||
| 28% | 21% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 30% | ||
| 59% | 71% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 63% | ||
| 24% | 7% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 22% | ||
| 21% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 22% | ||
| 5.7 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.6 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 5.6 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10.2 | 10.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 8.8 | ||
| 5 | 5.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.9 | ||
| 31% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 46% | 41% | ||
| 8.7 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.4 | 10 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 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 | VPS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | KuPS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Ilves | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Oulu | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Haka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 6 | SJK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 41 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 58 |
| 2 | KuPS | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 43 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 57 |
| 3 | Honka | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 53 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 49 |
| 4 | Haka | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 40 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 45 |
| 5 | SJK | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 35 |
| 6 | Inter Turku | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 42 | 36 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 35 |
