FF Jaro - Inter Turku

Jaro:3-1-1-0-0-1 Inter: 0-3-0-1-1-0

H2H: 4-7-7. 29.04.2009 Inter - Jaro 1-0

The season is hardly over half-way line, but the reigning champions Inter Turku are almost burying their hopes of domestic and international success. In the Champions League they lost twice (0-1, 1-0) to a Moldovan club Sheriff Tiraspol by a penalty goal in each game, and in the Veikkausliiga they are only on 7th place already 10 points behind leaders HJK.

And they do have some worries to add up to the misery. Important midfielder Alberto Ramirez 14/1 is suspended. Captain df Henri Lehtonen 15/0 is suspended. The best goal-scorer Timo Furuholm have pain in his knees. The key player planned for this season, argentinian Claudio Verino 13/1 has not only been a disappointment in the defense, but also seems to have lost all his confidence and stamina and is not working well together with the team. He might take a role in the attack in this game because of the lack of trust in his defensive ability and the general lack of decent strikers in the team over all. Inter have scored 15 times in their 15 games played in this season´s Veikkausliiga, which is not enough specially considering that the defense is not in top form either.

This game is the decisive game for the rest of the season. International success was just a dream, but a win here might just give a chance to at least fight for the top positions. The performances have been good, if we forget the fact they are not scoring and winning games.

Jaro on the other hand is far more happy with their season so far. They are one point behind Inter at 8th place, but nothing more was expected of them before the season. The coach Mika Laurikainen announced a couple of weeks of that he is not going to continue his career at Jaro after this season, and for some time the results and performances weakened but now the things are settling down in this small coastal town of Pietarsaari, and Jaro is likely to go on with their good season.

Vitali Teles will continue between the posts as Markus Koljander 13/0 is serving the second game of his two-game ban, but otherwise the injury situation of Jaro is improving again and they can field almost best possible starting eleven. Even Teles who was doomed as a risk and a questionmark filled his role fully against Tampere United (0-0) last monday, and kept his net intact.

Jaro: 12 Vitali Teles 2/0 – 6 Janne Vellamo 14/0 - 5 Kristian Kojola 15/2 – 2 Jani Tanska 15/1 - 10 Jonas Emet 15/3 – 16 Papa Niang 14/2 – 17 Petter Meyer 14/1 - 18 Mikko Hyyrynen 13/3 – 19 Sebastian Mannström 15/4 - 22 Jens Portin 15/0 – 23 Joonas Laurikainen 15/3

Bench: 9 Björn-Erik Sundqvist 3/0, 30 Jesse Öst 0/0, 11 Jani Koivisto 6/1, 13 Jani Sarajärvi 2/0, , 26 Tommi Haanpää 0/0

Unavailable: 8 Jari Sara 0/0, 21 Daniel Fellman 8/0, 1 Markus Koljander 13/0, 7 Marco Matrone 14/1, 3 Heikki Aho 8/0,

Coach: Mika Laurikainen



Inter Turku: 1 Patrick Bantamoi (gk)13/0 – 3 Claudio Verino 13/1 – 22 Sami Sanevuori 9/0 – 7 Ari Nyman 15/0 – 9 Guillano Grot 11/3 – 11 Timo Furuholm 13/5 – 14 Joni Aho 12/0 – 18 Ats Purje 11/1 – 24 Joni Kauko 11/1 – 23 Ville Nikkari 8/0- 17 Mika Ojala 13/2

Bench: 8 Touko Tumanto 7/0, 20 Arttu Seppälä 1/0, 21 Pablo Gomez-Marttila 0/0, 27 Kennedy 13/1, 25 Ville Mäkilä 0/0, 26 Felix Åkerlund 0/0, 6 Jermu Gustafsson 1/0, 13 Eemeli Reponen (gk) 2/0 , 15 Severi Paajanen 15/0, 12 David Monsalve (gk) 1/0

Unavailable: 19 Aristides Pertot 8/0, 5 Alberto Ramirez 14/1, 29 Henri Lehtonen 15/0

Coach: Job Dragtsma

Prediction: Jaro was a value bet for the early birds and the price of Jaro has dropped steadily after the odds had been published, and I am not that sure there is value anymore. The mental state of Inter is the decisive factor here and I need to do some more sniffing before deciding to Jaro, preferrably at 0, or not. At these odds Inter is not advisable but things might change.

On a match day the odds are dropping on Inter, and I have updated two more absentees for Jaro (Matrone and Aho), both weakening their defense. Explains the drop, still I am not that interested. No bet.