HIFK fights VPS in Veikkausliiga battle

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Date: Fri 31.May
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Telia 5G -areena (10770 seats)

An important duel in the bottom section of the league table, with both teams experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic “six-pointer” with the home team placed 10th and the visitors in 11th place.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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HIFK form and stats

Overall stats at home this season for HIFK are 1-3-1 (wins-draw-losses). HIFK are splitting points both home and away, currently holding an interesting streak of four drawn games in a row. The home fans are hungry for more even though HIFK have been steadily collecting points here at Telia 5G -areena through three straight draws.

HIFK drew their last game, also a home match. Inter Turku was the opponent, 1-1 the score. Before that, HIFK played out a draw 1-1 when visiting KPV.

This is expected to be a close game, with HIFK perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with HIFK as a small favourite), we find two games. HIFK has won 0 of these, drawn 1 and lost 1.

HIFK are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home, having created 5 goals in 5 matches. From these home matches, HIFK have conceded only 4 goals.

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VPS form and stats

0 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of VPS playing as the away team this season. VPS are desperate to end a ten-game winless run, as they haven't won a game since the Inter Turku fixture.

It might be tough going out on the road again for VPS, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Mariehamn. Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus RoPS.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with VPS playing away and similar expectations, we found six relevant matches. Results were 1 VPS win, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Goals are few and far between in VPS's away games. Only 2 goals from 4 travels. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (3 so far).

Head 2 Head

HIFK-VPS H2H statistics last nine meetings regardless of arena: HIFK 4 wins, VPS 4 wins, 1 draw. 5 of these nine matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

HIFK missing players

VPS missing players

HIFK VPS
Total Home Home vs low Statistic Away vs low Away Total
9 5 0 Played 0 4 9
1 1 0 Won 0 0 0
5 3 0 Drew 0 3 6
3 1 0 Lost 0 1 3
7 5 0 Scored 0 2 7
8 4 0 Conceded 0 3 10
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 0% 75% 89%
67% 80% 0% Over 1.5 0% 50% 67%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 0% 0% 22%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 11%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
56% 60% 0% BTTS 0% 50% 67%
11% 20% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 25% 11%
33% 20% 0% Failed To Score 0% 50% 33%
 
3.9 3.8 0 Corners For (avg) 0 3.8 3.3
4.4 4.4 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 5.5 6.2
2.7 2.8 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 1.5 1.8
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • HIFK have scored at least twice as many goals at home as VPS have scored away.
  • HIFK haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • VPS have yet to win a game.

HIFK
All Veikkausliiga Finland Cup Ykkonen Club Friendlies
All Home Away
03-05-19 VE RoPS 1 - 0 HIFK
08-05-19 VE HIFK 1 - 1 Mariehamn
12-05-19 VE HIFK 1 - 1 KuPS
20-05-19 VE KPV 1 - 1 HIFK
25-05-19 VE HIFK 1 - 1 Inter Turku
31-05-19 VE HIFK 15:30 VPS
18-06-19 VE HIFK 15:30 SJK
30-06-19 VE Lahti 15:30 HIFK
04-07-19 VE HIFK 15:30 HJK
13-07-19 VE Honka 14:00 HIFK
VPS
All Veikkausliiga Finland Cup Europa League Club Friendlies
All Home Away
07-05-19 VE VPS 1 - 1 HJK
11-05-19 VE Honka 1 - 1 VPS
16-05-19 FC VPS 1 - 3 Mariehamn
20-05-19 VE VPS 0 - 1 RoPS
26-05-19 VE Mariehamn 1 - 0 VPS
31-05-19 VE HIFK 15:30 VPS
17-06-19 VE VPS 15:30 KuPS
25-06-19 VE Inter Turku 15:30 VPS
29-06-19 VE VPS 14:00 Ilves
06-07-19 VE KPV 14:00 VPS

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

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