Struggling SJK will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Honka in the upcoming league round. It’s 9th vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
This pitch has artifical turf, which is not Honka's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf Honka have performed like this: Played 16 matches resulting in 7 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats with the goal stats 21-19 (scored/conceded).
SJK form and stats
SJK have collected 5 points from their Veikkausliiga home games so far after 1-2-1. SJK are splitting points both home and away, currently holding an interesting streak of four drawn games in a row. SJK have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 210 minutes without scoring a league goal. N. Markkula was the last player to find the net. SJK are confident in defense, having played 217 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
SJK shared the glory with Ilves in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Before that, SJK played out a draw 0-0 when visiting Honka.
The manager J. Honkavaara will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to HJK in only three days.
SJK are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 4 games. On the other hand, SJK have conceded 4 goals.
Honka form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most clean sheets (5) in Veikkausliiga, on their Veikkausliiga travels is 1 win, 4 draws and 0 defeats. Things are running smoothly for Honka who hasn't tasted defeat in their last ten matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Haka.
Honka are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at HJK (placed 3rd). Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs SJK.
The visitors have scored 4 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Honka are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 2 goals away.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Honka - SJK 0-0. SJK-Honka H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: SJK two wins, Honka four wins, four draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  J. Dongou Tsafack 5 goals |   A. Ngueukam 2 goals | L. Paz Kaufmann 2 goals |
SJK missing players
Honka missing players
| SJK | Honka | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 60% | 70% |
| 56% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 56% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | 50% |
| 44% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 60% | 50% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 30% |
| 5.3 | 6.5 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5.6 | 5.3 |
| 5.8 | 6.2 | 8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.6 | 4.8 |
| 2.3 | 1.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 74 | 41 | 8 | Total Shots | T S | 21 | 46 | 91 |
| 26 | 12 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 20 | 39 |
| 23% | 33% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 20% | 26% |
- Honka has the fewest conceded goals (5)
- Honka has the fewest matches over the total-line (1)
- Honka has the most clean sheets (5)
- Honka has the most matches under the total-line (9)
- Honka have not yet lost a game.
- SJK have scored in all their home matches so far.
- SJK have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- SJK 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 | Inter Turku | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 22 |
| 2 | KuPS | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 19 |
| 3 | HJK | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 18 |
| 4 | Honka | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 |
| 5 | HIFK | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| 6 | Lahti | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 15 |
| 7 | Ilves | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -4 | 13 |
| 8 | Mariehamn | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9 | -1 | 11 |
| 9 | SJK | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 8 |
| 10 | Haka | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | -10 | 4 |
| 11 | TPS | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -11 | 3 |
| 12 | RoPS | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | -10 | 2 |