MYPA - Jaro on TV on Friday night

MYPA (10th) – FF Jaro (11th)
MyPa: 3-0-0-0-3-0
Jaro:0-1-0-1-0-0

H2H: 13-2-4

Last game: 24.05.09 Jaro – MYPA 3-0

EDIT: MYPA have signed a new player from Brazil on loan, and it is up to the officials whether he is playing tonight or not. This target man from Fortaleza has been struggling lately on the bench and is looking for responsibility and goals, his name is José Cleiton Ferreira Júnior aka Cleiton.

MYPA did put up a good fight against IFK Mariehamn last week only to lose 1-2 at home. The return of Antti Okkonen from Belgium seemed to bring more skill and force into the MYPA midfield, but on the negative side important defender Sampsa Timoska got injured and will probably miss the rest of the season. Striker Tosaint Ricketts returns from suspension and MYPA coach Janne Lindberg has a almost full roster of players to choose from.

FF Jaro have won last time in June, and the home loss against FC Lahti seemed to be the last drop for the Jaro board of directors, and they decided to freed coach Mika Laurikainen from his contract ahead of time and replaced him with Alexei Eremenko Sr, a former Jaro – legend and a current coach of second division team JBK. ”Obviously there is very little I can do except for the mental side, ” says Eremenko who finally gets him chance as a Veikkausliiga coach, ” there will be no new players, but I have to get players to believe in themselves and make them feel better and play better. Of course I have my own views of this game and there will probably be some changes in the way we play.”

Jaro have no new injury worries, but the influence of new coach and his ideas of the ideal line-up are difficult to predict and there might be big changes in the line-up. Urmas Rooba was signed from Estonian club Flora for the rest of the season to help with the injuries in the defense.


MYPA: 1 Antti Kuismala 17/0 – 4 Antti Uimaniemi 18/0 – 11 Ilari Äijälä 15/4 – 16 Toni Huttunen 18/1 - 6 Tuomo Könönen 17/0 - 25 Antti Okkonen 1/0 - 13 Toni Lindberg 13/2– 18 Tuomas Aho 17/0 - 7 Ben Webster 17/0 –14 Tosaint Ricketts 13/5 – 2 Miikka Multaharju 16/0

Bench: 5 Jarno Tuunainen 3/0, 15 Ville Oksanen 16/1, 12 Mika Johansson (gk) 1/0, 23 Niko Nakari 6/0, 17 Einari Kurittu 1/0, 8 Ady 11/2, 9 Saku Puhakainen 18/1, 24 Nebi Mustafi 11/1
Unavailable: 20 Felipe Benevedes 2/0 (loan to MP), 19 Maxim Votinov 12/2 (loan to MP), 22 Roope Rautiainen 0/0 loan to (MP), 3 Sampsa Timoska 8/0
Coach : Janne Lindberg

Jaro: 1 Markus Koljander 16/0 – 6 Janne Vellamo 16/0 - 5 Kristian Kojola 19/2 – 2 Jani Tanska 19/1 - 20 Tillman Grove 2/0 – 10 Jonas Emet 18/3 – 17 Petter Meyer 18/3 - 18 Mikko Hyyrynen 17/3 – 19 Sebastian Mannström 19/4 – 22 Jens Portin 18/0 – 23 Joonas Laurikainen 19/3

Bench: 30 Jesse Öst 0/0, 11 Jani Koivisto 10/1, 13 Jani Sarajärvi 5/0, 26 Tommi Haanpää 2/0, 12 Vitali Teles (gk) 2/0, 9 Björn-Erik Sundqvist 7/1, 27 Urmas Rooba 1/0, 16 Papa Niang 17/2

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

Coach : Alexei Eremenko Sr

Prediction: Bettingwise a tough nut, my rough estimation being 44-29-27. This season MYPA have lost against Jaro 3-0 and 5-0 and if Jaro scores the first goal of the game it might bring back some dark memories. I do rate Jaro as a better team and I am tempted to take them with a handicap, but of course a team without a win in 9 last games is not that hot and there are doubts. Knowing the style and skills of Eremenko is encouraging though, and as the problems of Jaro have lately been on the mental side I can imagine a Jaro full of fighting spirit on Friday. A well-earned point is on the cards, look out for Jaro + 0,5 @ 1.95. The late news of a brazilian target player do not change my estimation the slightest, the only player who has come to Veikkausliiga in the middle of the season and been fit is Dickson at KuPS.