It's the second window of opportunity for points this season as HJK and Lahti cross swords at Talin jalkapallohalli.
5 - 1 - 5 with 22-17. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Lahti when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Lahti play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
HJK form and stats
Last season, HJK's league stats were 15 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses, producing 1st place in the Veikkausliiga. In these 22 matches they scored {34 goals} and let in 18. Performing as the home side in the last season HJK managed 8-1-2 (win-draw-lost) with {19 goals} and 12 conceded. HJK have only played one League Cup game here so far, a win. Last season their home statistics were 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat from 3 matches.
The HJK regulars enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Mariehamn and win 3-0.
Preceding that match, a home defeat in the Europa League against Roma. HJK are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 13 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 11, drew 0 and lost 2.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the HJK at home in the league. 3 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Lahti form and stats
Let's have a look at how Lahti performed last season in the Veikkausliiga: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 8 draws and 6 defeats. In total they scored 27 and conceded {25 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 5 and lost 3 with 13/14 goals scored/conceded.
Zeqiri was the last player to score for the away team. Lahti haven't scored a league goal in the last 206 minutes.
The manager Mannila was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground Lahden Kisapuisto. Lahti suffered a 0-2 loss to Honka (placed 1st).
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs TPS.Head 2 Head
HJK have avoided a loss in the last 9 games (5-4-0) versus Lahti.Top Goalscorers
  T. Ollila 1 goals | K. Meriluoto 1 goals |
HJK missing players
Lahti missing players
| HJK | Lahti | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | 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% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 11 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 43% | 43% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| HJK | Last season | Lahti | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 27 | 14 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | ||
| 18 | 10 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | ||
| 41 | 24 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | ||
| 23 | 14 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 63% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 48% | 57% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | ||
| 19% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 11% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 52% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | ||
| 41% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | ||
| 11% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | ||
| 8.1 | 8.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3.5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.6 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 6 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 4 | ||
| 29% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 38% | ||
| 6.4 | 6.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 6 | ||
| 2.9 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 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 | Honka | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | HJK | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Inter Turku | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | KTP | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Mariehamn | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 1 |
| 6 | Lahti | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 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 |
