Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Inter Turku welcomes HIFK

It's no vacation for neither Inter Turku nor HIFK as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

This pitch has grass, which is not HIFK's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass HIFK have performed like this: Played 23 matches resulting in 6 wins, 5 draws and 12 defeats with the goal stats 31-39 (scored/conceded).

Inter Turku form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Veritas Stadion as Inter Turku, who have the most points (22) at home in Veikkausliiga, have scored 21 goals to get 22 points from 10 games. The overall stats are 7-1-2 (wins-draws-losses). Ever since the VPS game Inter Turku has been unbeatable here at Veritas Stadion producing five straight wins.

Inter Turku's previous game was a Veikkausliiga match also played at home, ending 3-2 versus HIFK. The home side are looking to build on that result. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting KuPS (0-2).

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Inter Turku's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won 3 matches, drawn 0 and lost 0.

Goals decide football matches and Inter Turku are scoring many of them at home; 21 on target from 10 matches. Inter Turku's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

HIFK form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for HIFK so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 1-4-4 (win-draw-lose).

It might be tough going out on the road again for HIFK, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 2-3 versus Inter Turku. Before that, HIFK secured a home win against KPV with the score 3-2.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and HIFK playing away, we found four games. Results were 1 away win, 1 draw and 2 home wins.

The visitors have scored 8 goals from 9 away games, an average of less than one per game. HIFK have conceded 12 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Inter Turku - HIFK 3-2 entered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 7 Inter Turku victories, 2 draws and 1 HIFK win. 5 of these games ended with three goals or more, 5 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

F. Valenčič 15 goals / 4 assists

T. Furuholm 7 goals / 3 assists

Tiquinho 6 goals / 1 assists

Inter Turku missing players

HIFK missing players