HJK bring their bags for Honka and Tapiolan Urheilupuisto full of happy thoughts, but the hosts is not a walk in the park. More info on the match here!
- Honka have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- HJK have the most scored goals (23) in Veikkausliiga
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting HJK have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 11-8-11 (win-draw-loss) from 30 matches.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Honka and HJK.
Honka form and stats
3-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Veikkausliiga numbers at home for Honka so far this season. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Honka after consecutive victories at their own ground.
A nice win for Honka last time playing, versus VPS. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Ortíz scoring for the victors. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Vasara when Ortíz scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 46th minute.
Ahead of that fixture, a home victory hosting Honka Akatemia in the Finland Cup.
Not much happening? In this club's last 14 league games, 11 have seen zero, one or two goals.
The manager Vasara will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to SalPa in only four days.
Honka have scored {6 league goals} here from 7 matches, not a lot. Honka have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
HJK form and stats
2 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of HJK, who have the most scored goals (23) in Veikkausliiga, playing as the away team in the Veikkausliiga this season.
HJK has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Haka for a 1-1 draw.
Before that, HJK secured a home win against KTP with the score 1-0.Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far HJK have scored 9 goals in 7 league games away. HJK have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
It's not the first time these sides meet this season, as the history books show this recent match: HJK - Honka 2-0. Numbers for the previous ten meetings involving these two participants are: two wins for Honka, three draws and five wins for HJK. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Keskinen 4 goals |  J. Muzinga 2 goals | T. Ollila 2 goals |
Honka missing players
HJK missing players
| Honka | HJK | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 9 | 23 |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 8 | 10 |
| 86% | 86% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 86% |
| 57% | 43% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 71% | 71% |
| 21% | 29% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 43% | 36% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 14% | 21% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 14% | 14% |
| 29% | 14% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 71% | 50% |
| 36% | 43% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 50% |
| 50% | 57% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 14% |
| 5.3 | 5.4 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 4 | 4.9 |
| 4 | 3.4 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.9 |
| 1.6 | 2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9.6 | 11 | 7.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 10.1 | 10 |
| 3.6 | 3.9 | 1.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.6 |
| 24% | 22% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 31% | 35% |
| 8.6 | 7.6 | 5.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.5 | 8 | 7.1 |
| 3.5 | 3 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.4 | 2.9 |
- HJK have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- HJK have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- HJK have the most scored goals (23) in Veikkausliiga
- HJK have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Veikkausliiga
- HJK have the the best goal difference (+13) in Veikkausliiga
- HJK have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Honka have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| 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 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 28 |
| 2 | HJK | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 27 |
| 3 | SJK | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 27 |
| 4 | Oulu | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 21 |
| 5 | Honka | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 19 |
| 6 | Inter Turku | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 17 |
| 7 | KTP | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 15 |
| 8 | Ilves | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 14 |
| 9 | Haka | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 13 | -7 | 11 |
| 10 | Lahti | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -7 | 10 |
| 11 | Mariehamn | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -7 | 9 |
| 12 | VPS | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -12 | 6 |
