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- HIFK have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Oulu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
The hosts HIFK saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Veikkausliiga. Thankfully the previous game, versus SJK, was also a home game here at Bolt Arena. The away team is better rested.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Oulu have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 7-4-6 (win-draw-loss) from 17 matches.
HIFK form and stats
3 victories, 2 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what HIFK have to build on here at Bolt Arena in the Veikkausliiga.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Callum Ward not having conceded a league goal in 180 minutes.
HIFK's last game was hosting SJK (placed 4th) and winning 1-0.
Before that match, a win away at Honka.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how HIFK have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found five games) they have won four times, drawn zero and lost one.
HIFK are traveling soon after this match as the Veikkausliiga match at Ilves awaits in three days.
HIFK are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 9 games. HIFK have conceded 14 from these games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Oulu form and stats
There's been little loot from Oulu's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 8 away games in the Veikkausliiga. Oulu only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 0 draws.
Oulu's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Lahti that finished 1-1.
Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Haka.We have checked recent matches where Oulu have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those ten games were three victories, one draw and six defeats.
Oulu have scored 8 goals on their travels this season, from 8 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Oulu have conceded 14 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The squads have met each other before in this season, with the final score Oulu - HIFK 1-2 logged in the official records. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (HIFK wins - draws - Oulu wins). As for goals, nine matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Yaghoubi 3 goals |  K. Kamara 3 goals |   L. Opara 3 goals |
HIFK missing players
Oulu missing players
| HIFK | Oulu | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 18 | 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 8 | 16 |
| 16 | 14 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 14 | 27 |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 56% | 56% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 62% | 78% |
| 31% | 33% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| 19% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 22% |
| 12% | 22% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 6% |
| 38% | 44% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 44% |
| 50% | 33% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | 17% |
| 25% | 22% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 38% | 39% |
| 4.3 | 4.8 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.5 | 5.2 | 4.9 |
| 5.3 | 5.8 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.5 | 5.9 | 5.7 |
| 1.9 | 1.4 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.7 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9.6 | 10.2 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 7.1 | 6.4 |
| 3.6 | 3.8 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.5 | 3.1 | 2.9 |
| 32% | 26% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 32% | 31% |
- HIFK have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- HIFK haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Oulu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Oulu 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 | HJK | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 21 | 45 |
| 2 | KuPS | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 19 | 39 |
| 3 | Inter Turku | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 28 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 32 |
| 4 | SJK | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 30 |
| 5 | Lahti | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 24 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 28 |
| 6 | HIFK | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 26 |
| 7 | Honka | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 25 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 16 | -2 | 21 |
| 8 | Ilves | 17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 16 | -7 | 20 |
| 9 | Oulu | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 16 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -11 | 17 |
| 10 | Haka | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 14 | -10 | 15 |
| 11 | Mariehamn | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | -16 | 14 |
| 12 | KTP | 17 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 33 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 17 | -20 | 8 |