Veikkausliiga match prediction and preview for Mariehamn vs HIFK clash

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Competition: Finland Veikkausliiga
Date: Sun 28.July
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Wiklöf Holding Arena (5637 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Mariehamn are in the 7th position while the guests worry at 9th.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting HIFK have a different surface at their stadium (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 6-6-11 (win-draw-loss) from 23 matches.

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Mariehamn form and stats

Overall stats at home this season for Mariehamn are 3-1-5 (wins-draw-losses).

The Mariehamn fans got no joy from their last match, a Veikkausliiga game also here at Wiklöf Holding Arena: A 1-3 defeat against HIFK. 0-0 away at KuPS before that.

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 Mariehamn's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played five games, won 3 matches, drawn 0 and lost 2.

The Mariehamn fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium, the tally being 13 in 9 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 14 goals have been conceded.

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HIFK form and stats

HIFK have only collected 6 points from their away games after 1-3-3 (7 played).

Two travels in a row for HIFK, whose manager T. Thodesen could celebrate last time after the Veikkausliiga win against Mariehamn. That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus RoPS.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of HIFK when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing 1 time, drawing 0 and winning 1 game.

The attacking power of HIFK when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored in 7 matches. HIFK have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Mariehamn - HIFK 1-3. Mariehamn-HIFK H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Mariehamn 4 wins, HIFK 2 wins, 4 draws. 3 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

K. Isaksson
6 goals
A. Mboma
6 goals

Mariehamn missing players

HIFK missing players

Mariehamn HIFK
Total Home Home vs low Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
16 9 3 Played 3 7 16
6 3 3 Won 0 1 5
4 1 0 Drew 2 3 6
6 5 0 Lost 1 3 5
24 13 6 Scored 1 5 14
19 14 0 Conceded 2 8 15
88% 100% 100% Over 0.5 67% 86% 94%
75% 78% 67% Over 1.5 33% 57% 62%
56% 56% 33% Over 2.5 0% 29% 19%
31% 33% 0% Over 3.5 0% 14% 6%
6% 11% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 44% 0% BTTS 33% 43% 44%
38% 33% 100% Clean Sheets 33% 14% 25%
25% 22% 0% Failed To Score 67% 57% 38%
 
5.6 6 4.7 Corners For (avg) 5.3 4 4.1
5 4.7 4 Corners Against (avg) 6.3 6.4 5.4
1.9 2.4 2.3 Yellow Cards (avg) 2.3 2.4 2.6
3 3 1 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • HIFK have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Mariehamn have scored at least twice as many goals at home as HIFK have scored away.
  • Mariehamn haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

Mariehamn
All Veikkausliiga Champions League Finland Cup Club Friendlies
All Home Away
30-06-19 VE Mariehamn 2 - 2 Honka
06-07-19 VE RoPS 1 - 2 Mariehamn
14-07-19 VE Mariehamn 3 - 0 KPV
21-07-19 VE KuPS 0 - 0 Mariehamn
28-07-19 VE Mariehamn 1 - 3 HIFK
04-08-19 VE Inter Turku 15:00 Mariehamn
11-08-19 VE Mariehamn 14:00 Ilves
15-08-19 VE SJK 15:30 Mariehamn
19-08-19 VE VPS 15:30 Mariehamn
25-08-19 VE Mariehamn 15:30 SJK
HIFK
All Veikkausliiga Finland Cup Ykkonen Club Friendlies
All Home Away
30-06-19 VE Lahti 0 - 0 HIFK
04-07-19 VE HIFK 0 - 2 HJK
13-07-19 VE Honka 3 - 0 HIFK
21-07-19 VE HIFK 1 - 0 RoPS
28-07-19 VE Mariehamn 1 - 3 HIFK
04-08-19 VE KuPS 14:00 HIFK
09-08-19 VE HIFK 15:30 KPV
16-08-19 VE Inter Turku 15:30 HIFK
23-08-19 VE HIFK 15:30 Ilves
27-08-19 VE Ilves 15:30 HIFK

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Ilves 16 9 5 2 21 10 7 3 4 0 10 4 9 6 1 2 11 6 11 32
2 Inter Turku 17 9 3 5 32 20 8 5 1 2 17 8 9 4 2 3 15 12 12 30
3 KuPS 17 7 6 4 26 21 8 3 3 2 11 8 9 4 3 2 15 13 5 27
4 Honka 17 8 3 6 25 21 9 4 1 4 13 11 8 4 2 2 12 10 4 27
5 HJK 18 6 9 3 20 18 9 3 5 1 12 9 9 3 4 2 8 9 2 27
6 SJK 17 7 5 5 16 17 8 4 1 3 6 6 9 3 4 2 10 11 -1 26
7 Mariehamn 16 6 4 6 24 19 9 3 1 5 13 14 7 3 3 1 11 5 5 22
8 Lahti 17 5 7 5 17 19 8 2 5 1 11 8 9 3 2 4 6 11 -2 22
9 HIFK 16 5 6 5 14 15 9 4 3 2 9 7 7 1 3 3 5 8 -1 21
10 RoPS 17 4 3 10 10 20 9 1 2 6 4 10 8 3 1 4 6 10 -10 15
11 KPV 17 3 4 10 14 31 9 2 2 5 7 15 8 1 2 5 7 16 -17 13
12 VPS 17 0 9 8 14 22 8 0 4 4 8 12 9 0 5 4 6 10 -8 9

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