Veikkausliiga preview and statistics: Inter Turku - HIFK

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Competition: Sun 03.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)

The standings reveals that 6 points separate the pair of opponents in this Veikkausliiga game. Inter Turku have both the points- and home ground advantage.

Insights:
  • Inter Turku have the most scored goals in the second half (23) in Veikkausliiga
  • HIFK have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Veikkausliiga

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Veikkausliiga game only three days ago. That game, against Haka, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for HIFK.

Inter Turku's stadium has a grass surface. HIFK have artifical turf 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 HIFK when playing on grass; 10 wins, 8 draws and 10 losses from 28 matches. They have scored 33 goals in these games and conceded 31.

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Inter Turku form and stats

Inter Turku are steadily winning Veikkausliiga games and points here. 7 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 11 games.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Henrik Moisander not having conceded a league goal in 221 minutes.

A good away victory last time out for Inter Turku, who won 1-0 against HJK.

Before that, Inter had a home game versus Oulu which ended with a victory 4-0.

Inter have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 20 goals in 11 league matches. Inter Turku are not conceding a lot of goals here in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 11 matches.

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HIFK form and stats

The visitors are W5-D4-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Veikkausliiga.

HIFK aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 199 league minutes without a goal. K. Kamara was the last player to find the net.

HIFK play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-2 to Haka.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus KuPS that ended 0-0.

The visiting HIFK have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 11 goals from 11 games. The HIFK defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average (5 goals in 11 games).

Head 2 Head

The most up to date recorded scoreline featuring both these participants is the Inter Turku - HIFK 0-1 played previously this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Inter six wins, three draws and HIFK one victory. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

InterB. Källman
B. Källman
10 goals
Inter TurkuT. Furuholm
T. Furuholm
6 goals
Inter TurkuM. Ojala
M. Ojala
5 goals

Inter Turku missing players

HIFK missing players

Inter Turku HIFK
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 3 11 22
12 7 1 Won W 1 5 9
3 2 2 Drew D 2 4 6
7 2 0 Lost L 0 2 7
36 20 5 Scored S 3 11 23
22 9 3 Conceded C 1 5 23
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 73% 86%
77% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 55% 59%
55% 55% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 18% 32%
27% 27% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 18%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 9%
50% 45% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 18% 32%
32% 45% 33% Clean Sheets C S 67% 64% 45%
18% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 45% 36%
 
5.6 4.9 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.6 4.4
4.8 4.6 4.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6.7 5.5 5.8
2.1 1.6 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.3 2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
10.4 9.5 11 Shots (avg) S ( 5.7 7.1 8.6
5.3 4.9 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.5 3.2
31% 37% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 41% 33%
Key stats in Veikkausliiga this season:
  • HIFK have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • HIFK have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Veikkausliiga
  • Inter Turku have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Inter Turku have the most scored goals in the second half (23) in Veikkausliiga
  • Inter Turku 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 22 15 4 3 38 14 11 7 3 1 18 5 11 8 1 2 20 9 24 49
2 HJK 22 15 4 3 32 12 11 7 2 2 17 8 11 8 2 1 15 4 20 49
3 Inter Turku 22 12 3 7 36 22 11 7 2 2 20 9 11 5 1 5 16 13 14 39
4 SJK 22 11 4 7 29 24 11 6 3 2 22 12 11 5 1 5 7 12 5 37
5 HIFK 22 9 6 7 23 23 11 4 2 5 12 18 11 5 4 2 11 5 0 33
6 Ilves 22 10 3 9 21 23 11 8 1 2 13 7 11 2 2 7 8 16 -2 33
7 Lahti 22 8 8 6 27 25 11 5 3 3 14 11 11 3 5 3 13 14 2 32
8 Honka 22 7 5 10 28 29 11 4 2 5 12 13 11 3 3 5 16 16 -1 26
9 Haka 22 7 3 12 21 26 11 3 2 6 11 12 11 4 1 6 10 14 -5 24
10 Mariehamn 22 7 2 13 20 32 11 3 1 7 9 17 11 4 1 6 11 15 -12 23
11 Oulu 22 5 3 14 17 35 11 3 2 6 8 14 11 2 1 8 9 21 -18 18
12 KTP 22 1 5 16 18 45 11 0 2 9 7 21 11 1 3 7 11 24 -27 8

Read more about Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga is the premier division in Finnish football. It has its name from the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, the main sponsor. Seasons run from April to October in a league of twelve teams. These play two fixtures against each other in the regular season. After that the league table splits in two. The top teams play a championship round and the bottom half play a relegation round.