Veikkausliiga prediction and preview: HJK modest favorites to beat Honka

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Date: Wed 19.June
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Telia 5G -areena (10770 seats)

HJK perform at a high level so far being 4th in the table. Honka can look both up and down from their 5th position.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

Honka play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artificial turf. Recent stats for Honka when playing on artificial turf are 9 wins, 3 draws and 6 defeats from 18 matches. They have scored 23 goals and conceded 19 times in these games.

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HJK form and stats

HJK, who have the most points (12) at home in Veikkausliiga, are steadily winning games and points here at Telia 5G -areena. 3 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 6 games.

The HJK crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Honka here at Telia 5G -areena in a Veikkausliiga match. Before that match, a win away at RoPS.

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 HJK have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found three games) they have won 0 times, drawn 1 and lost 2.

HJK have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Telia 5G -areena with 10 goals in 6 matches. HJK have conceded 6 in these home matches.

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Honka form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Honka, as they have won on their previous two travels.

It's the second away game in a row for Honka, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus HJK in the Veikkausliiga last time out. A 0-1 loss hosting KPV before that.

We have checked recent matches where Honka have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those six games were W4-D2-L0.

The travelling fans enjoy Honka's attacking play in away games, having scored 8 goals in 5 away matches. Honka have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

HJK and Honka have met before this season: HJK - Honka 0-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 3 - 4 - 3 (HJK wins - draws - Honka wins). As for goals, 6 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 4 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Borjas Martín
6 goals
E. Mensah
2 goals

HJK missing players

Honka missing players

HJK Honka
Total Home Home vs mid Statistic Away vs top Away Total
13 7 2 Played 2 6 11
4 3 1 Won 1 4 6
6 3 1 Drew 1 1 2
3 1 0 Lost 0 1 3
13 10 4 Scored 4 9 16
15 7 3 Conceded 1 5 12
77% 86% 100% Over 0.5 100% 100% 100%
62% 71% 100% Over 1.5 100% 83% 82%
46% 57% 100% Over 2.5 50% 50% 45%
23% 29% 50% Over 3.5 0% 0% 18%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 9%
54% 71% 100% BTTS 50% 50% 55%
31% 14% 0% Clean Sheets 50% 33% 27%
38% 29% 0% Failed To Score 0% 17% 18%
 
6.4 5.9 7.5 Corners For (avg) 5 4 4.4
3.2 3.6 4 Corners Against (avg) 7 4.2 4.2
1.8 1.7 1.5 Yellow Cards (avg) 1.5 1.5 1.6
4 1 0 Red Cards 1 1 1
Key stats this season:
  • HJK have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • HJK have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Honka have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Honka haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

HJK
All Veikkausliiga Champions League Finland Cup Europa League Club Friendlies
All Home Away
11-05-19 VE HJK 2 - 2 SJK
20-05-19 VE Lahti 3 - 0 HJK
26-05-19 VE HJK 3 - 1 KPV
31-05-19 VE RoPS 0 - 1 HJK
19-06-19 VE HJK 0 - 1 Honka
25-06-19 VE Mariehamn 15:00 HJK
29-06-19 VE HJK 14:00 KuPS
04-07-19 VE HIFK 15:30 HJK
09-07-19 CL HJK - HB
16-07-19 CL HB - HJK
Honka
All Veikkausliiga Finland Cup Ykkonen Club Friendlies Kakkonen-LohkoB
All Home Away
11-05-19 VE Honka 1 - 1 VPS
18-05-19 VE SJK 1 - 2 Honka
27-05-19 VE Honka 2 - 0 Lahti
02-06-19 VE Honka 0 - 1 KPV
19-06-19 VE HJK 0 - 1 Honka
25-06-19 VE Honka 15:30 RoPS
30-06-19 VE Mariehamn 15:30 Honka
06-07-19 VE Honka 14:00 KuPS
13-07-19 VE Honka 10:00 HIFK
21-07-19 VE Inter Turku 14:00 Honka

  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 12 6 2 4 23 16 5 3 0 2 11 6 7 3 2 2 12 10 7 20
2 Ilves 10 5 4 1 9 4 4 1 3 0 2 1 6 4 1 1 7 3 5 19
3 KuPS 12 5 4 3 17 16 6 2 2 2 6 7 6 3 2 1 11 9 1 19
4 HJK 12 4 6 2 13 14 6 3 3 0 10 6 6 1 3 2 3 8 -1 18
5 Honka 10 5 2 3 15 12 5 2 1 2 7 7 5 3 1 1 8 5 3 17
6 SJK 11 4 5 2 11 9 5 2 1 2 3 3 6 2 4 0 8 6 2 17
7 Mariehamn 10 4 2 4 16 11 5 2 0 3 7 7 5 2 2 1 9 4 5 14
8 Lahti 10 3 5 2 11 9 5 1 4 0 9 6 5 2 1 2 2 3 2 14
9 HIFK 10 2 5 3 9 9 6 2 3 1 7 5 4 0 2 2 2 4 0 11
10 RoPS 11 3 2 6 7 13 6 1 1 4 3 6 5 2 1 2 4 7 -6 11
11 VPS 11 0 6 5 9 14 6 0 3 3 6 9 5 0 3 2 3 5 -5 6
12 KPV 11 1 3 7 7 20 6 0 2 4 2 11 5 1 1 3 5 9 -13 6

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