HJK have travelled here for an exciting battle against the hosting HIFK. Get ready for the match with this thorough League Cup preview!
This should be an exciting match with lots of action and excitement as both contenders are well rested since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's go!
HIFK form and stats
The previous season, HIFK's league stats were 9 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses, providing 5th position in the League Cup. During these 22 matches they scored 23 goals and conceded 23. Playing as the host team in the last season HIFK managed 4-2-5 (win-draw-lost) with 12 goals and 18 conceded.
The manager Tavares will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Mariehamn in only four days.
HJK form and stats
Let's have a look at how HJK performed last season in the League Cup: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 15 victories, 4 draws and 3 defeats. In total they scored 32 and conceded 12 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 8 - drew 2 and lost 1 with 15/4 goals scored/conceded.
A new game in only three days for HJK, the League Cup home match versus Inter Turku. Busy days.
Just as the home team, HJK have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 1 HJK win, 1 draw and 1 loss.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): HIFK two wins, one draw and HJK seven victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.HIFK missing players
HJK missing players
| HIFK | HJK | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| HIFK | Last season | HJK | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 27 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 27 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Won | W | 9 | 18 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | ||
| 25 | 14 | Scored | S | 19 | 41 | ||
| 31 | 23 | Conceded | C | 7 | 19 | ||
| 85% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 89% | ||
| 59% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 54% | 63% | ||
| 33% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 37% | ||
| 19% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 19% | ||
| 7% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 11% | ||
| 30% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 41% | ||
| 41% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 62% | 52% | ||
| 44% | 31% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 19% | ||
| 4.4 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 6.6 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.9 | 3.2 | ||
| 2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.6 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8.9 | 10.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 12 | ||
| 3.2 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 5.1 | ||
| 29% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 30% | ||
| 10.7 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.3 | 8 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.1 | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 59 |
| 2 | KuPS | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 58 |
| 3 | SJK | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 48 |
| 4 | Inter Turku | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -1 | 45 |
| 5 | Ilves | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -3 | 36 |
| 6 | HIFK | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -6 | 35 |
