Haka - Inter Turku preview

Haka (5th) – Inter (6th)

Haka: 0-0-1-0-1-1
Inter: 1-0-3-3-0-0

H2H:8-5-5

Last game:23.05.09 Inter – Haka 0-2

Haka won last time 7 rounds ago and has been dropping from the top ever since. They have partly run out of luck they had in the early season, and also been hit by injuries and the defense line has changed significantly in the last games due injuries and other reasons. The attacking department is neither in top notch condition, and as a result they deciced to loan Antti Hakala 1/0 from their reserve team, 2nd division SalPa. He did not make huge impact in his first outing at Rovaniemi against RoPS, but is also featuring is this game against Inter Turku.

The good news for coach Olli Huttunen is that defender Markus Joenmäki should be healthty again in will return to the squad, but the missings of defender Diego Corpache 15/1 and mf Mika Mäkitalo 17/2 are difficult to replace, and another defender Petri Viljanen is also doubtful.

Inter entered the season with high hopes after last season´s surprise championship, but is looking like a team that gets nothing this season, and quite deservedly so. Losing at home to KuPS might be a shock they needed to get, and as there are no injuries and the problems seem to lie on the mental side this is a great chance for Inter to start the season anew and make the last effort to win at least something.

No injury worries for Inter, they loaned one their strikers from the bench to VPS Vaasa to get some valuable experience, but the coach Job Dragtsma has a full squad to choose from.

Haka: 1 Janne Korhonen 19/0 - 20 Sami Ristilä 15/2 - 3 Petri Viljanen 13/0 - 21 Pietari Holopainen 15/5 - 22 Jarno Mattila 19/1 - 6 Sebastian Strandvall 19/5 - 7 Mikko Innanen 19/2 - 11 Antti Hynynen 17/4 - 41 Valeri Minkenen 9/0 - 8 Jani Kauppila 19/0 - 9 Niko Ikävalko 16/3

Bench: 12 Saku Pesonen (gk) 0/0, 18 Jari Nikkilä 16/0, Antti Hakala 1/0, 4 Markus Joenmäki 8/0

Out: 5 Kalle Parviainen 0/0, 15 Nicolas Kivistö 6/0, 28 Hans Denissen 5/0 (freed from contract), 2 Diego Corpache 15/1, 16 Jani Bäckman 8/1 returned to FC Honka, 10 Mika Mäkitalo 17/2

Coach: Olli Huttunen


Inter Turku: 1 Patrick Bantamoi (gk)17/0 – 6 Jermu Gustafsson 5/0 – 7 Ari Nyman 19/0 – 9 Guillano Grot 13/3 – 11 Timo Furuholm 17/9 – 14 Joni Aho 16/0 – 18 Ats Purje 15/3 – 15 Severi Paajanen 19/0 - 17 Mika Ojala 16/2 - 5 Alberto Ramirez 17/1 - 29 Henri Lehtonen 18/0

Bench: 8 Touko Tumanto 9/0, 21 Pablo Gomez-Marttila 0/0, 27 Kennedy 16/1, 25 Ville Mäkilä 0/0, 26 Felix Åkerlund 0/0, 13 Eemeli Reponen (gk) 2/0, 12 David Monsalve (gk) 1/0, 19 Aristides Pertot 11/0, 22 Sami Sanevuori 12/0, 24 Joni Kauko 15/2, 3 Claudio Verino 13/1, 23 Ville Nikkari 11/0

Out: 20 Arttu Seppälä 1/0 loan to VPS for the rest of the season

Coach: Job Dragtsma

Prediction: Inter not to lose. Value in + 0.25 Inter when the price is over 1.80