RoPS - Haka preview

RoPS (13th)– Haka (5th)

RoPS: 0-3-3-0-0-0
Haka: 3-0-0-1-0-1

H2H:0-5-14

Last game 17.05.09 Haka – RoPs 3-1

RoPS fought well at Mariehamn last week, only to return home to Lapland with no points as they are used from their travels. RoPS have lost their four games, and coach Mika Lumijärvi knows exactly why,” basically there are only two reasons. We are unefficent in front of the goal, and then out defence is leaking too much,” he says ironically. ”These things go hand if hand, if you do not score, then you are likely to lose.”

RoPS signed a Nigerian strieker Jeremieh Ani, and according to the news from the training pitch he might be a solution to goal scoring problems.

Simwanza and Ikäläinen are suspended, but there are no major injuries in the RoPS camp.

It has not been that easy for Haka either lately, from their last five games they have drawn twice and lost three times and are a way from the top spot the occupied in the first half of the season. Haka will also make the long trip without a bunch of important players and especially Haka defence need to reconstructed, ” Joenmäki, Nikkilä, Mäkitalo, Corpache, Hoikkala and Kivistö are absent for sure, ” says Haka coach Olli Huttunen, ” and some others are also doubtful. Our starting eleven will be almost of full – strength, but i do not know who are going to be sitting on the subs bench, ” worries Huttunen.


RoPS: 1 Jung-Huyk Kwom (gk) 17/0 – 4 Stephen Kunda 18/0 – 15 Mika- Matti Maisonvaara 15/1- 3 Marko Koivuranta 8/0 - 11 Chileshe Chibwe 17/2 - 10 Chanda Mwaba 18/1 - 30 Echiabhi Okodugha 18/5 - 18 Christopher Musonda 17/3 - 19 Janne Turpeenniemi 12/0 - 8 Nchimunya Mweetwa 9/0 - 17 Ville Syväjärvi 14/0
Bench: 2 Godfrey Chibanga 14/0, 9 Zeddy Saileti 14/1, 13 Jukka Yrjänheikki 4/0, 20 Juha-Pekka Inkeröinen 7/0, 12 Kari-Pekka Syväjärvi (gk) 2/0, 16 Jeferson Pires 7/1, 7 Jarno Tenkula 2/0, , Jeremieh Ani 0/0
Out: 22 Juuso Majava 0/0, 5 White Simwanza 16/0 & 6 Joonas Ikäläinen 18/2 suspended

Coaches: Zeddy Saileti & Mika Lumijärvi

Haka: 1 Janne Korhonen 18/0 - 20 Sami Ristilä 14/2 - 3 Petri Viljanen 12/0 - 21 Pietari Holopainen 14/5 - 22 Jarno Mattila 18/1 - 6 Sebastian Strandvall 18/5 - 7 Mikko Innanen 18/2 - 11 Antti Hynynen 16/4 - 41 Valeri Minkenen 8/0 - 8 Jani Kauppila 18/0 - 9 Niko Ikävalko 15/3

Bench: 12 Saku Pesonen (gk) 0/0

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, 18 Jari Nikkilä 16/0, 4 Markus Joenmäki 8/0, 10 Mika Mäkitalo 17/2

Coach: Olli Huttunen

Prediction: RoPS