Can anything really happen?
Inter:3-3-0-0-3-0
Lahti:0-0-1-0-0-3
H2H: 6-5-5. League Cup 28.02.2009 Inter – Lahti 1-1.
Inter is in the middle of goal-keeping crisis as both keepers are suspended. Patrick Bantamoi is still suffering a two-match ban of the red card against HJK, and the same punishment came to David Monsalve in the next game and on Sunday Inter will put young and unexperienced Eemeli Reponen into the pitch.
Last season´s champions Inter have lost four of their five games, and their desire to repeat the surprise Championship is slipping through their fingers.
The month of July will be decisive for the reast of the season, when Inter have ten ! games to play in the League and CL-qualifications. ”It was frustrating to see out players giving out the victory to TamU when we had a two-goal lead,” says coach Job Dragtsma, ” we played like little kids, we have problems with the fitness of strikers and now also the the clubs we play are making things more difficult for us not playing actively and giving us a chance to press hard and high, which has been our trademark.”
”We are going to give a lot of pressure for the 19-yo goalkeeper Reponen,” says Lahti coach Ilkka Mäkelä, ” but Inter home Veritas stadion is definitely the most difficult place in the country and it is not going to be easy for us.”
Lahti had a bad streak of not winning the games five times in the row, but now they are back in the game with two consecutive wins, one of the in Europa League against Dinamo Tirana 4-1 at home in Lahti. The main architect being once again former CL-hero Jari Litmanen.
”This is a tough place, the players are doing well at the moment, but I could see they were very tired after the Tirana – match, and I have think about resting some of them ahead of away trip to Albania next week.”
Mika Ojala 10/2 will still be unavailable for Inter, and the goalkeepers Bantamoi 11/0 and Monsalve 1/0.
Lahti is only missing long-term patient Veltheim, but is likely to rotate their players.
Inter Turku: 13 Eemeli Reponen (gk) 1/0 – 3 Claudio Verino 11/1 – 5 Alberto Ramirez 11/1 – 7 Ari Nyman 12/0 – 9 Guillano Grot 10/3 – 11 Timo Furuholm 10/3 – 14 Joni Aho 10/0 – 15 Severi Paajanen 12/0 – 18 Ats Purje 8/1 – 24 Joni Kauko 8/1 – 29 Henri Lehtonen 12/0
Bench: 8 Touko Tumanto 6/0, 20 Arttu Seppälä 1/0, 21 Pablo Gomez-Marttila 0/0, 22 Sami Sanevuori 7/0, 23 Ville Nikkari 7/0, 27 Kennedy 11/1, 25 Ville Mäkilä 0/0, 26 Felix Åkerlund 0/0, 19 Aristides Pertot 7/0, 6 Jermu Gustafsson 0/0
Unavailable: 17 Mika Ojala 10/2, 1 Patrick Bantamoi (gk)11/0, 12 David Monsalve (gk) 1/0
Coach : Job Dragtsma
FC Lahti: Viktor Szentpeteri 8/0 – 2 Heikki Haara 12/1 – 3 Henri Toivomäki 12/0 - 4 Janne Moilanen 4/0 – 6 Kalle Eerola 9/0 - 8 Mohamed Fofana 11/3 - 9 Rafael 11/2 – 11 Drilon Shala 12/5 – 14 Konsta Hietanen 12/0 – 15 Jukka Vanninen 11/0 - 17 Eero Korte 12/2
Bench: 10 Jari Litmanen 8/0, 12 Toni Huuhka 9/1, 19 Riku Heini 7/0, 20 Jonne Kemppinen 10/1, 21 Kaarlo Rantanen 2/0, 22 Juha Tuomi (gk) 4/0
Unavailable: 7 Jukka Veltheim 2/0 for the rest of the season
Coach : Ilkka Mäkelä
Prediction: Goals! Analysis tomorrow.
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