Struggling SJK will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Inter Turku in the upcoming league round. It’s 9th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Inter Turku have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 7-3-8 (win-draw-loss) from 18 matches.
SJK form and stats
2 victories, 2 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what SJK have to build on here at OmaSP Stadion in the Veikkausliiga.
A nice win for SJK last time playing, versus RoPS. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with J. Lepistö and M. Hetemaj scoring for the victors. Heartbreak before that as SJK lost 0-2 at HJK's place.
The victory against RoPS came after J. Lepistö's winning goal. The SJK manager J. Honkavaara was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 52nd minute.
SJK are traveling soon after this match as the Veikkausliiga match at Haka awaits in three days.
The SJK fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 6 in 6 matches. SJK have conceded 7 in these home matches.
Inter Turku form and stats
The visitors are W2-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Veikkausliiga.
Inter Turku are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 2-2 draw at Lahti (placed 7th). Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Honved (after extra-time)'s place.
The match against Lahti looked like a defeat for Inter Turku, but they did not accept the outcome and clawed their way back to 2-2. E. Mastokangas equalized in the 89th minute. The draw against Lahti came from a losing position. The Inter manager J. Riveiro brought on E. Mastokangas as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.
Inter find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Inter Turku have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
SJK-Inter Turku H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: SJK six wins, Inter Turku three wins, one draw. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  T. Furuholm 8 goals |  T. Kagayama 3 goals |  M. Hetemaj 2 goals |
SJK missing players
Inter Turku missing players
| SJK | Inter Turku | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 13 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | 6 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 7 | 23 |
| 13 | 7 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| 75% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 71% | 77% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 14% | 38% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 31% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 50% | 67% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 46% |
| 33% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 29% | 31% |
| 42% | 17% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 43% | 23% |
| 5.1 | 6 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 10 | 7.4 | 6.2 |
| 5.8 | 5.3 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.7 | 4.3 | 3.9 |
| 2.4 | 2 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 107 | 66 | 15 | Total Shots | T S | 45 | 88 | 174 |
| 40 | 22 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 18 | 31 | 72 |
| 20% | 27% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 23% | 32% |
- Inter Turku have scored more than double the goals of SJK.
- Inter Turku have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Inter Turku haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- 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 | HJK | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 23 | 30 |
| 2 | Inter Turku | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 26 |
| 3 | KuPS | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 25 |
| 4 | Honka | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 19 |
| 5 | HIFK | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 19 |
| 6 | Ilves | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 19 |
| 7 | Lahti | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 17 |
| 8 | Mariehamn | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 17 | -2 | 17 |
| 9 | SJK | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -5 | 11 |
| 10 | TPS | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -12 | 9 |
| 11 | Haka | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -14 | 8 |
| 12 | RoPS | 13 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 14 | -18 | 2 |