These two participants are enjoying a quality season so far and matches like this one could be decisive. Here's the preview for HJK - Oulu!
- HJK have the most clean sheets (6) in Veikkausliiga
- Oulu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
HJK's stadium, Bolt Arena, has a artifical turf surface. Oulu have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Oulu when playing on artifical turf; 3 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses from eleven matches. They have scored 13 goals in these games and conceded 19.
The visiting Oulu played their last game only four days ago, a Finland Cup match. That game, against JaPS, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Oulu.
HJK form and stats
When playing at home in the Veikkausliiga, HJK have managed 4 wins, 0 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 5 games.
The HJK coach Koskela and his side return home after a 0-0 draw away versus VPS in the Finland Cup.
Before that, HJK played out a Veikkausliiga draw 0-0 when visiting KuPS.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for HJK home games with this odds we find 12 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 11 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Looking at the victories, 5 matches were won by at least two goals.
There will be little rest for HJK after this match as they are travelling to Mariehamn for a Veikkausliiga game in only four days.
The HJK manager Koskela has got the team scoring with 11 from 5 home games in the league. HJK have conceded 8 from these games.
Oulu form and stats
As the visiting team in Veikkausliiga matches, Oulu have produced an overall stat of 1-1-2 so far.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Oulu goalkeeper Callum Ward is eager to challenge this, with his 197 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Two away games in a row for Oulu, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 against JaPS in the Finland Cup.
Before that, Oulu secured a home win against SJK with the score 1-0.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Veikkausliiga trip to KuPS.
Oulu has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 6 goals from 4 games. Oulu have conceded 6 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): HJK three wins, two draws and Oulu one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Riski 2 goals |  R. Riski 2 goals |  J. Yli-Kokko 1 goals |
HJK missing players
Oulu missing players
| HJK | Oulu | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 17 | 11 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 6 | 15 |
| 9 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 13 |
| 91% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 55% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 90% |
| 36% | 80% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 70% |
| 27% | 60% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 20% |
| 27% | 60% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 45% | 80% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 75% | 60% |
| 55% | 20% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 30% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 8.5 | 7.6 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5.5 | 4.3 |
| 2.7 | 1.8 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.8 | 5.5 |
| 1.5 | 1.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13.1 | 13.4 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7.8 | 8.1 |
| 5.3 | 6 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 3.8 |
| 29% | 37% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 38% | 39% |
| 6.2 | 5.6 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 7.5 | 7.3 |
| 2.5 | 3.4 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 3.2 |
- All of Oulu's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- HJK have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- HJK have scored in all their home matches so far.
- HJK have the fewest matches over the total-line (1) in Veikkausliiga
- HJK have the most clean sheets (6) in Veikkausliiga
- HJK have the most points from losing position (10) in Veikkausliiga
- HJK have the most scored goals (11) at home in Veikkausliiga
- HJK have the most scored goals in the second half (12) in Veikkausliiga
- HJK have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- HJK haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Oulu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Oulu have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Oulu have won significantly more corners away than at 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 | 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 |
