MyPa – RoPS

RoPS:0-0-0-3-0-3 --------------- MyPa: 0-0-3-0-0-3


H2H: 10-6-4. League 17.08.2008 MyPa-RoPS 1-0

EDIT:FT 4-0

Home team MYPA has been unpredictable and a disappointment to themselves in the first half of the season and find themselves only slightly above the relegation zone and 5 points above RoPS from Rovaniemi. A home loss here would be a disaster and cause panic in the club, but fortunately for MYPA their guests have been awful travellers and gained only 1 point from their away games.

MYPA have won at home Tampere United and the mighty HJK, but having lost their last two home games they really can feel pressure now. ”MYPA has always been difficult for us, but now they have all the pressure and we can look forward into this game having finally found the net properly against the 5-3 win against Jaro last week, ” says coach of the Rovaniemi team Mika Lumijärvi.

”We have tried to analyze our poor success on the road but there is no one single reason to that, ” he continues. ” All we can do is try out best.”

MYPA loaned away one of their promising youngsters Felipe Benevedes 2/0 to Kakkonen team MP, otherwise the only other absent player is defender Sampsa Timoska 5/0.

RoPS will be without long-term patients Tenkula and Majava and red-carded Ville Syväjärvi 12/0, but otherwise their fitness situation is improving day by day.

MYPA: 1 Antti Kuismala 12/0 – 4 Antti Uimaniemi 13/0 – 11 Ilari Äijälä 11/3 – 18 Tuomas Aho 13/0 – 16 Toni Huttunen 13/1 - 6 Tuomo Könönen 12/0 - 8 Ady 9/2 – 2 Miikka Multaharju 12/0 - 7 Ben Webster 12/0 – 9 Saku Puhakainen 13/0 – 19 Maxim Votinov 11/2

Bench: 5 Jarno Tuunainen 0/0, 13 Toni Lindberg 10/1, 15 Ville Oksanen 12/0, 12 Mika Johansson (gk) 1/0, 14 Tosaint Ricketts 9/3, 23 Niko Nakari 5/0, 24 Nebi Mustafi 7/0
Unavailable: 3 Sampsa Timoska 5/0 , 20 Felipe Benevedes 2/0

Coach : Janne Lindberg

RoPS: 1 Jung-Huyk Kwom (gk) 13/0 – 4 Stephen Kunda 14/0 – 5 White Simwanza 12/0 – 6 Joonas Ikäläinen 14/2 - 3 Marko Koivuranta 8/0 - 11 Chileshe Chibwe 13/2 - 10 Chanda Mwaba 14/1 - 30 Echiabhi Okodugha 14/4 - 18 Christopher Musonda 14/3 - 16 Jeferson Pires 6/1 – 15 Mika- Matti Maisonvaara 12/1

Bench: 2 Godfrey Chibanga 11/0, 8 Nchimunya Mweetwa 5/0, 9 Zeddy Saileti 11/1, 13 Jukka Yrjänheikki 2/0, 20 Juha-Pekka Inkeröinen 6/0, 19 Janne Turpeenniemi 9/0, 12 Kari-Pekka Syväjärvi (gk) 2/0

Out: 7 Jarno Tenkula 0/0, 22 Juuso Majava 0/0, 17 Ville Syväjärvi 12/0 (suspended)

Coaches: Zeddy Saileti & Mika Lumijärvi

Betting: RoPS was big value with a -1 handicap, but it is also worth a shot for a straight win as anything can also be expected from the Rovaniemi outfit. Well worth and worth, it depends on the odds which i will look closer later.

Have to run now, but nothing exceptional to be found in the odds. I could get a minimum of a sure bet now with my early RoPS -1, but it is not my game.