4th position in the Veikkausliiga table for Honka so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 6th-placed Lahti visits Tapiolan Urheilupuisto.
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 Lahti.
Honka form and stats
Honka, who have the fewest conceded goals (12) in Veikkausliiga, have collected 16 points from their Veikkausliiga home games so far after 4-4-2.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Timothy Murray not having conceded a league goal in 232 minutes.
Honka enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at KuPS's place. The match ended 2-0 with Lucas Kaufmann and D. Savage scoring. Before that, Honka had a home game versus Mariehamn which ended with a victory 1-0.
The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Honka matches with similar probabilities have ended with two wins, two draws and two defeats (from six games).
Honka has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. Honka are not conceding a lot of goals here at Tapiolan Urheilupuisto in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 10 matches.
Lahti form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Veikkausliiga travels is 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
The Lahti goalkeeper Patrick Rakovsky is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 250 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Lahti played 0-0 against Haka in their previous match. Preceding that game was the away victory against RoPS with the score of 4-0.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Lahti when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing one time, drawing one and winning two games.
The travelling fans enjoy Lahti's attacking play in away games, having scored 17 goals in 10 league matches away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Lahti have conceded 15 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Honka and Lahti have met before this season: Lahti - Honka 0-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Honka victories, three draws and five Lahti wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Dongou Tsafack 8 goals |   J. Assehnoun 8 goals |  D. Imbongo Boele 5 goals |
Honka missing players
Lahti missing players
| Honka | Lahti | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 23 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 17 | 30 |
| 12 | 8 | 3 | Conceded | C | 7 | 15 | 27 |
| 75% | 80% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 85% |
| 60% | 50% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 90% | 80% |
| 20% | 30% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 80% | 70% |
| 15% | 20% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 45% |
| 5% | 10% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 45% | 50% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 50% |
| 50% | 40% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 30% | 35% |
| 30% | 30% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 20% | 30% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 | 1.6 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 182 | 83 | 20 | Total Shots | T S | 16 | 83 | 166 |
| 83 | 34 | 9 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 31 | 70 |
| 28% | 32% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 55% | 43% |
- Honka has the fewest conceded goals (12) in Veikkausliiga
- Honka has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Veikkausliiga
- Honka has the fewest matches over the total-line (4) in Veikkausliiga
- Honka has the most clean sheets (10) in Veikkausliiga
- Honka has the most matches under the total-line (16) in Veikkausliiga
- Honka have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Lahti has the fewest matches under the total-line (6) in Veikkausliiga
- Lahti has the most matches over the total-line (14) in Veikkausliiga
- Lahti have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Lahti haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | HJK | 20 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 47 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 31 | 44 |
| 2 | KuPS | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 35 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 15 | 41 |
| 3 | Inter Turku | 20 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 32 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 16 | 37 |
| 4 | Honka | 20 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 11 | 34 |
| 5 | Ilves | 20 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 3 | 30 |
| 6 | Lahti | 20 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 30 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 3 | 29 |
| 7 | SJK | 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 26 |
| 8 | HIFK | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 27 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 15 | -4 | 25 |
| 9 | Mariehamn | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 28 | 38 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 24 | -10 | 20 |
| 10 | Haka | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 38 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 14 | -16 | 19 |
| 11 | TPS | 19 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 19 | 34 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 21 | -15 | 15 |
| 12 | RoPS | 20 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 47 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 25 | -34 | 5 |