Honka - VPS

Honka -VPS

Honka :0-3-3-1-1-1 ----------- VPS: 3-3-0-1-0-3

H2H: 6-1-1

27.04.2009 VPS – Honka 2-5

FC Honka is the only other team ín addition to FC Lahti of the Veikkausliiga teams still in Europea League after winning comfortably Welsh club Bangor City both home and away.

It does bother most teams to have a lot of games, but not Honka. Honka have some 20 players for this game, and from the starting eleven some 7-8 players will change from the game at Bangor, and the final line-up remains a mystery until kick-off, the only pretty sure cases being the key players Rami Hakanpää, Joel Perovuo and Hermanni Vuorinen.

In the opening round game at Vaasa Hermanni Vuorinen scored astonishing four goals, and the danger he possesses is well-know at VPS: ” There are other skillful goalscorers too and we can not start chasing only Vuorinen. Our own work must be set toy a higher level so that teams like Honka and would score so many goals against us. I know they just came back from Bangor, but even their bench is filled with guys from the national teams and they are all very dangerous, ” says VPS coach Janne Vuorinen.

VPS got another injury when winger Jyrki Saranpää 14/1 hurt himself at trainings, and he will be out for several weeks.

Honka: 1 Tuomas Peltonen 10/0 - 2 Sampo Koskinen 11/0 - 13 Ville Koskimaa 7/1- 5 Henri Aalto 10/0 - 6 Hermanni Vuorinen 15/10 - 28 Rasmus Schüller 8/1- 10 Jami Puustinen 14/3 - 26 Jaakko Lepola 10/3 - 17 Demba Savage 14/2 - 19 Rami Hakanpää 14/1 – 21 Joel Perovuo 15/2

Bench: 27 Konsta Rasimus 1/0, 12 Janne Henriksson (gk) 6/0, 14 Jussi Vasara 15/1, 15 Aleksandr Kokko 12/0, 20 Nicolas Otaru 12/2, 11 Hannu Haarala 6/0, 3 Roope Heilala 10/0

Out: 8 Markus Paatelainen 0/0, 7 John Weckström 6/1, 22 Tuomo Turunen 11/1 transferred to IFK Göteborg

Coach: Mika Lehkosuo



VPS: 1 Henri Sillanpää 11/0 - 8 Jani Lyyski 15/1 – 11 Toni Hahto 12/0 –– 19 Jan Berg 15/0 – 3 Lawrence Smith 11/2 – 7 Tero Koskela 13/1 – 14 Jens Nygård 15/3 - 22 Tony Björk 15/1 - 10 Antonio Inutile 14/3 – 23 Jyri Hietaharju 15/1- 20 Rikard Lindroos 10/1

Bench:9 Jussi Aalto 8/1, 25 Pekka Kainu 10/0, 12 Henrik Moisander (gk) 6/0

Unavailable: 2 Jan Ahlvik 0/0 & 24 Benjamin Slotte 0/0, 16 Jyrki Saranpää 14/1, 4 Jussi Äijälä 10/0, 6 Petteri Forsell 8/1

Coaches: Juha Reini & Petri Vuorinen

Prediction: Home win. I know what some people think here, but yet the value to be found in Honka - 0,75 & - 1 was astonishingly big. Which is an excellent thing and I took Honka - 1 @ 2.35 smilingly.

Limit for Honka - 0.75 @ 1.79 and for -1 @ 2.02. Also the -0.75 handicap would have been an excellent one, but having witnessed the pure unluck of Honka lately in goal-scoring occasions I feel comfortable taking it -1. There has been no lack of chances and VPS injuries do not help. What helps is the run of results of VPS against bottom and out-of-form teams, VPS can consider themselves lucky with the amount of points gathered so far.