Football preview: Home fans have high hopes when Haka welcome Mariehamn

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Competition: Sat 18.June
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tehtaan kenttä (3516 seats)

Haka have harvested 8 of their 11 in total here at their precious home ground. Will they win more points against Mariehamn?

Insights:
  • Haka have the most conceded goals (18) in Veikkausliiga
  • Mariehamn have the fewest scored goals (6) in Veikkausliiga

These are busy days for the host team, as they had a match only four days ago in the Finland Cup. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at HJS Akatemia.

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Haka form and stats

Haka have played 5 Veikkausliiga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Haka are returning here after visiting HJS Akatemia in a Finland Cup game and winning with a 1-0 scoreline.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a Veikkausliiga home game that ended 1-1 versus Lahti.

Haka are traveling soon after this match as the Veikkausliiga match at SJK awaits in four days.

Haka are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 5 games. 6 goals have been conceded.

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Mariehamn form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Veikkausliiga travels is 0 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Mariehamn delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against HIFK in their previous match; a Finland Cup fixture.

The game before that, in the Veikkausliiga, was lost at home, a 1-3 defeat against VPS.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Mariehamn playing away, we found 9 games. Results were 2 away wins, 1 draw and 6 home wins.

After this away game Mariehamn return home for a Veikkausliiga game against HJK. That game is only four sleeps after this.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Mariehamn's away games in the league this season with only 1 goal from 4 matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Mariehamn have conceded 7 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Haka three wins, three draws and Mariehamn four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

HakaS. Zarokostas
S. Zarokostas
2 goals
MariehamnC. Carvalho da Silva
C. Carvalho da Silva
2 goals
HakaJ. Laine
J. Laine
1 goals

Haka missing players

Mariehamn missing players

Haka Mariehamn
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 3 Played P 2 4 9
3 2 1 Won W 0 0 1
2 2 2 Drew D 0 1 4
5 1 0 Lost L 2 3 4
12 6 4 Scored S 0 1 6
18 6 3 Conceded C 5 7 13
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 67%
60% 40% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 25% 33%
20% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 25% 22%
20% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
70% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 56%
10% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 11%
20% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 75% 44%
 
5.4 6.2 7 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5 4.7
3.4 2.6 3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 5.5 5.6
1.9 1.6 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2 2.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.3 12 12 Shots (avg) S ( 5.5 9.8 9.6
5.3 5.8 5.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.5 3.3
23% 21% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 7% 20%
 
8.8 7.8 7.3 Shots against (avg) S A 7 7.8 7.9
4.7 4.2 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 3 3.3
Key stats in Veikkausliiga this season:
  • All of Haka's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Haka have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Haka have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Mariehamn have scored away.
  • Haka have the most conceded goals (18) in Veikkausliiga
  • Haka have the most conceded goals in the first half (10) in Veikkausliiga
  • Haka have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Haka haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Mariehamn have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Mariehamn have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Mariehamn have the fewest points (1) away in Veikkausliiga
  • Mariehamn have the fewest scored goals (1) away in Veikkausliiga
  • Mariehamn have the fewest scored goals (6) in Veikkausliiga
  • Mariehamn have yet to win a game away.
  • Mariehamn haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 KuPS 10 8 2 0 17 5 5 4 1 0 9 3 5 4 1 0 8 2 12 26
2 HJK 11 8 2 1 17 9 5 4 0 1 11 8 6 4 2 0 6 1 8 26
3 Honka 9 5 2 2 16 9 4 3 1 0 10 4 5 2 1 2 6 5 7 17
4 Oulu 10 4 3 3 15 13 6 3 2 1 9 7 4 1 1 2 6 6 2 15
5 Inter Turku 10 4 2 4 18 14 6 2 2 2 10 8 4 2 0 2 8 6 4 14
6 Ilves 9 3 3 3 14 13 4 3 0 1 8 5 5 0 3 2 6 8 1 12
7 Haka 10 3 2 5 12 18 5 2 2 1 6 6 5 1 0 4 6 12 -6 11
8 VPS 9 3 1 5 16 13 4 0 1 3 3 6 5 3 0 2 13 7 3 10
9 SJK 10 3 1 6 8 16 4 2 0 2 4 4 6 1 1 4 4 12 -8 10
10 Lahti 10 2 3 5 9 16 5 0 1 4 1 11 5 2 2 1 8 5 -7 9
11 Mariehamn 9 1 4 4 6 13 5 1 3 1 5 6 4 0 1 3 1 7 -7 7
12 HIFK 9 0 3 6 7 16 5 0 1 4 2 9 4 0 2 2 5 7 -9 3

Read more about Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga is the premier division in Finnish football. It has its name from the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, the main sponsor. Seasons run from April to October in a league of twelve teams. These play two fixtures against each other in the regular season. After that the league table splits in two. The top teams play a championship round and the bottom half play a relegation round.