Season ticket holders at Tehtaan kenttä haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Haka languishing in the 10th position so far. The guesting HIFK will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
It's no vacation for neither Haka nor HIFK as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Haka's stadium, Tehtaan kenttä, has a grass surface. HIFK have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for HIFK when playing on grass; 6 wins, 5 draws and 11 losses from 22 matches. They have scored 31 goals in these games and conceded 37.
Haka form and stats
Two Veikkausliiga home games so far for Haka, who are yet to win here at Tehtaan kenttä. Only 1 point so far.
An away draw last time out for Haka, facing SJK in a game that ended 1-1. Before that game, the home loss against Inter Turku with the scoreline 0-2.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Haka have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found two matches with the results: Won one, drawn zero and lost one.
Haka are traveling soon after this match as the Veikkausliiga match at Inter Turku awaits in four days.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Haka at home in the league. 1 on target and 3 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
HIFK form and stats
HIFK, who have the most points (7) away in Veikkausliiga, are happy with their away performances in the Veikkausliiga so far, having secured two victories and one draw from their first three travels.
HIFK are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 2-2 draw at Ilves (placed 6th). Before that one, a nice away victory 3-0 at Mariehamn.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by HIFK in our archives, and the results are: two wins for HIFK, four draws and four defeats.
The HIFK manager T. Kankkunen has got the team scoring on the road, with 6 away goals in 3 league matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (2 so far).
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last six meetings: one - zero - five (Haka wins - draws - HIFK wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Mattila 3 goals |   S. Keita 2 goals |  E. Markkanen 2 goals |
Haka missing players
HIFK missing players
| Haka | HIFK | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| 11 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 83% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 83% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 83% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 17% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 4.8 | 3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.3 | 4.7 |
| 7 | 9 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.3 | 4.8 |
| 1.8 | 1.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 4.3 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | 10 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 16 | 26 | 48 |
| 21 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 13 | 20 |
| 33% | 17% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 80% | 46% | 40% |
- All of Haka's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- HIFK has the most conceded goals in the first half (7)
- HIFK has the most matches over the total-line (5)
- HIFK has the most points (7) away
- HIFK have not yet lost a game away.
- HIFK have scored in all their away matches so far.
- HIFK have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- HIFK haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Haka has the most dropped points from leading position (8)
- Haka have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Haka have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Haka have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Haka have yet to win a game.
- Haka haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Inter Turku | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 16 |
| 2 | KuPS | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 15 |
| 3 | HJK | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 13 |
| 4 | Honka | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | HIFK | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | -1 | 10 |
| 6 | Ilves | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -4 | 9 |
| 7 | Lahti | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | -2 | 7 |
| 8 | SJK | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 5 |
| 9 | Mariehamn | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -4 | 5 |
| 10 | Haka | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 4 |
| 11 | TPS | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -7 | 3 |
| 12 | RoPS | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -5 | 2 |