The home crowds hope for a win and three points in this game, and the home advantage might do the trick against a stumbling visitor. Ilves are in 6th spot while the guesting HIFK sweat at 12th.
- Ilves have the fewest matches under the total-line (0) in Veikkausliiga
- HIFK have the most conceded goals (21) in Veikkausliiga
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 Ilves and HIFK.
Ilves form and stats
4-0-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Veikkausliiga numbers at home for Ilves so far this season. Ilves has recorded two wins in a row here at Ratinan Stadion, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
Ilves's previous game was also played at home, ending 3-2 versus Lahti (placed 10th). The home side are looking to build on that result. A late climax in the match against Lahti as the winning goal came six minutes into overtime; scored by Pennanen.
Before that, Ilves played out a draw 2-2 when visiting Inter Turku.Goals decide football matches and Ilves are scoring many of them at home; 11 on target from 5 league matches. Ilves have conceded 7 in these home matches.
HIFK form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Veikkausliiga travels is 0 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
HIFK failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs VPS (placed 8th) that ended with defeat 1-5. HIFK lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far HIFK have scored 5 goals in 4 league games away. As for defending, HIFK rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 7 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head to head data (for the preceeding ten meetings): Ilves won seven games, three matches ended with a tie and HIFK have zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / twoTop Goalscorers
  K. Meriluoto 2 goals | E. Oteng 1 goals | P. Loa Loa 1 goals |
Ilves missing players
HIFK missing players
| Ilves | HIFK | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | 4 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 17 | 11 | 7 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 15 | 7 | 3 | Conceded | C | 4 | 7 | 21 |
| 90% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 80% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 90% |
| 80% | 80% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 75% | 60% |
| 50% | 60% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 25% | 20% |
| 20% | 40% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 80% | 80% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 70% |
| 20% | 20% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 30% |
| 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 4.9 | 4.8 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8.5 | 7 | 6.4 |
| 1.9 | 1.4 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3.5 | 2.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7.5 | 6 | 7.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 5.2 | 6 |
| 3.2 | 3.4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.4 |
| 53% | 65% | 58% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 56% | 33% |
| 9.2 | 6.4 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 10 | 13.8 |
| 4.6 | 4.2 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.2 | 6.7 |
- All of HIFK's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- HIFK have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- HIFK have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- HIFK have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- HIFK have scored in all their away matches so far.
- HIFK have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Veikkausliiga
- HIFK have the most conceded goals (21) in Veikkausliiga
- HIFK have the most conceded goals in the second half (14) in Veikkausliiga
- HIFK have the most dropped points from leading position (13) in Veikkausliiga
- HIFK have the the worst goal difference (-13) in Veikkausliiga
- HIFK have yet to win a game.
- HIFK haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Ilves have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Ilves have scored more than double the goals of HIFK.
- Ilves have the fewest matches under the total-line (0) in Veikkausliiga
- Ilves haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 26 |
| 2 | HJK | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 26 |
| 3 | Honka | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 20 |
| 4 | Oulu | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| 5 | Inter Turku | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 15 |
| 6 | Ilves | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 15 |
| 7 | Haka | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -5 | 14 |
| 8 | VPS | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 13 |
| 9 | SJK | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 11 |
| 10 | Lahti | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | -8 | 9 |
| 11 | Mariehamn | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -8 | 7 |
| 12 | HIFK | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -13 | 3 |
