It's still early in the Veikkausliiga season, but we are learning more and more about the teams. Here is the HIFK - Lahti preview!
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
This pitch has artifical turf, which is not Lahti's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf Lahti have performed like this: Played 15 matches resulting in 3 wins, 4 draws and 8 defeats with the goal stats 10-25 (scored/conceded).
HIFK form and stats
0-0-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Veikkausliiga numbers at home for HIFK so far this season.
It's back home for HIFK, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating RoPS away with the result 1-0. S. Tukiainen found the net in that victory. Preceding that match was a defeat to KuPS (0-3).
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 HIFK have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found seven matches with the results: Won four, drawn one and lost two.
The match schedule is unforgiving for HIFK as they have a new game in only four days, a Veikkausliiga match thankfully also at home. SJK are visiting.
HIFK has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 3 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Lahti form and stats
J. Assehnoun was the last player to score for the away team. Lahti haven't scored a league goal in the last 192 minutes.
Lahti's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus SJK that finished 0-0. A 0-4 loss hosting HJK before that.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Lahti in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Lahti, four draws and three defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Lahti manager I. Zeneli as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against KuPS.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): HIFK won zero games, five matches ended with a draw and Lahti has five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  S. Tukiainen 1 goals |
HIFK missing players
Lahti missing players
| HIFK | Lahti | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 8 | 9 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | 6 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 3.5 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | 7 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| HIFK | Last season | Lahti | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 28 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 28 | ||
| 10 | 8 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 10 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 37 | 21 | Scored | S | 10 | 31 | ||
| 34 | 12 | Conceded | C | 21 | 38 | ||
| 93% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 89% | ||
| 75% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 68% | ||
| 39% | 29% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 43% | ||
| 32% | 21% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 25% | ||
| 14% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 14% | ||
| 57% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 29% | 43% | ||
| 25% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 36% | ||
| 25% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 32% | ||
| 4.1 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 4.1 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.4 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.8 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 246 | 144 | Total Shots | T S | 122 | 260 | ||
| 107 | 64 | Shots on Target | S O | 53 | 116 | ||
| 35% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 19% | 27% | ||
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 | Inter Turku | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 3 | KuPS | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 4 | Ilves | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 6 |
| 5 | SJK | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | HIFK | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -2 | 3 |
| 7 | Honka | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Mariehamn | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 1 |
| 9 | Haka | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
| 10 | Lahti | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 1 |
| 11 | TPS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | RoPS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 0 |