Possible nail-biting contest in Ilves - Honka game

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Competition: Finland League Cup
Competition: Wed 16.February
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Pirkkahalli C

This looks to be quite the engrossing run-in place. Read all about the game here!

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 Ilves and Honka.

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Ilves form and stats

The season before, Ilves's league results were 10 wins, 3 draws and 9 losses, providing 6th place in the League Cup. Over these 22 matches they scored 21 goals and gave away 23. Appearing as the home team in the last season Ilves delivered 8-1-2 (win-draw-lost) with 13 goals and 7 conceded.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Ilves, as the League Cup home game vs Lahti is only three days away.

With the first game of the season soon underway, it's time to look at the results from the Ilves friendly games in pre-season: Ilves played four friendlies, won 1, drew 0 and lost 3. If you are really into statistics you might appreciate knowing that Ilves scored 5 goals and conceded 10 in these four games.

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Honka form and stats

Let's have a look at how Honka performed last season in the League Cup: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 7 victories, 5 draws and 10 defeats. In total they scored 28 and conceded 29 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 3 and lost 5 with 16/16 goals scored/conceded.

It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Honka have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeats from one fixture.

Head 2 Head

Last ten meetings between these participants: Ilves won two, Honka were winners in four and we saw four draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Ilves missing players

Honka missing players

Ilves Honka
Total Home vs Statistics Stat vs Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 1 2
0 0 0 Won W 0 1 1
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
1 0 0 Scored S 0 4 5
1 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 1
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
100% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 50%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
3 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5 4
1 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3 4
4 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10 8.5
3 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 9 5.5
33% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 44% 45%
 
6 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 2 3.5
2 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 0.5
Ilves Last season Honka
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
27 13   Played P   13 27
11 8   Won W   4 9
3 1   Drew D   3 6
13 4   Lost L   6 12
29 15   Scored S   19 38
34 12   Conceded C   20 37
96% 92%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   92% 93%
63% 54%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   77% 74%
37% 31%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   54% 48%
19% 15%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   46% 33%
15% 15%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   23% 19%
37% 23%   BTTS BTTS   62% 56%
37% 54%   Clean Sheets C S   15% 15%
30% 31%   Failed to Score F T   31% 37%
 
4.9 5   Corners for (avg) C F   6.1 5.9
4.7 4.5   Corners against (avg) C A   4.6 4.9
2 2.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.7 1.7
0 0   Red cards R C   0 3
 
10.7 11.5   Shots (avg) S (   7.6 8.6
3.9 4.3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.2 3.5
28% 27%   Goal Efficiency G E   46% 40%
 
8.8 7.8   Shots against (avg) S A   10.9 10.1
3.5 2.7   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.8 3.9

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