ervedly so. VPS played awful football, lacked creativity and were shaky in the defence and they were in fact the worse of the teams on the pitch.
In the last league game VPS got a 2-3 away win at Rovaniemi against RoPS, with a late minute winner.
VPS did loan out promising midfielder Petteri Forsell to Kakkonen team Virkiä, and during the international break the players with minor injuries have fully recovered.
MYPA took a most welcomed home win in the expense of poor JJK Jyväskylä by 4-0 last Friday. The result is a bit flattering for MYPA, as JJK was well within the game until the first goal at the end of the first half. The second goal was too much for the visiting side and the rest was just cosmetics. MYPA coach Janne Lindberg was relieved after the game,” It was a good and relaxed game from us. We have had scoring problems and this time our efforts were rewarded, and hopefully it helps us also in the games in the future.”
MYPA have been moving players to and from their reserve teams, but of the key players only Sampsa Timoska´s 8/0 injury is significant.
VPS: 1 Henri Sillanpää 16/0 - 8 Jani Lyyski 20/3 – 4 Jussi Äijälä 15/0 – 19 Jan Berg 20/0 – 3 Lawrence Smith 16/3 – 7 Tero Koskela 18/1 – 14 Jens Nygård 20/3 - 22 Tony Björk 20/2 - 10 Antonio Inutile 19/4 – 23 Jyri Hietaharju 19/1 - 20 Rikard Lindroos 14/2
Bench: 9 Jussi Aalto 13/1, 25 Pekka Kainu 15/0, 12 Henrik Moisander (gk) 6/0, 21 Arttu Seppälä 1/1 (on loan from Inter Turku) 16 Jyrki Saranpää 14/1, 11 Toni Hahto 12/0
Unavailable: 2 Jan Ahlvik 0/0 & 24 Benjamin Slotte 0/0, 17 Juho Alasuutari 4/0 left the team and returned to YPA at Kakkonen, 6 Petteri Forsell 12/1, loan to Virkiä at Kakkonen for the rest of the season
Coaches: Juha Reini & Petri Vuorinen
MYPA: 1 Antti Kuismala 18/0 – 4 Antti Uimaniemi 19/0 – 11 Ilari Äijälä 15/4 – 16 Toni Huttunen 19/1 - 6 Tuomo Könönen 18/0 - 25 Antti Okkonen 2/0 - 13 Toni Lindberg 13/2 – 18 Tuomas Aho 18/0 - 7 Ben Webster 18/0 – 14 Tosaint Ricketts 14/5 – 2 Miikka Multaharju 17/0
Bench: 5 Jarno Tuunainen 4/0, 15 Ville Oksanen 16/1, 12 Mika Johansson (gk) 1/0, 8 Ady 12/2, 9 Saku Puhakainen 19/1, 24 Nebi Mustafi 12/1, 20 Felipe Benevedes 2/0, 19 Maxim Votinov 13/2, 26 Cleiton 1/0
Unavailable:22 Roope Rautiainen 0/0 on loan to MP, 17 Einari Kurittu 1/0 on loan to MP, 3 Sampsa Timoska 8/0 injured, 23 Niko Nakari 6/0 on loan to FC Kuusankoski
Coach : Janne Lindberg
FC Honka - FC Inter
Honka :1-3-3-1-3-3
Inter: 0-3-3-0-0-1
H2H:1-6-4
Last game in Veikkausliiga:1.6.09 Inter – Honka 2-1
Honka face their arch rivals Inter Turku in a very important match in which Honka need to win to keep their hopes of the championship alive. The mutual history games show that Inter have been almost impossible to beat so far, and one of the two lost matches this season was away at Inter.
Honka have been charging batteries during the break and even took almost a week off the training giving their players some breathing space. The form of the team is excellent, the players are in fit and healthy and Honka decided to unload some of their stuff to other teams in hope of some valuable match time. Striker Jani Bäckman was loaned to Klubi 04 and defender Jarkko Värttö is helping FC Lahti in their injury-struck situation.
In their last matches Honka have shown their goal-scoring abilities, in the cup they won TPS away 2-6 after extra-time, and in the league they taught JJK a lesson by 5-2 at home.
Inter Turku have had a difficult season after last season´s surprise Championship and though some signs here and there their new recruits were not able to fill the boots of last season´s key players Chatto and Hooiveld who are now building their careers in Sweden. In the league they are 10 points behind the top teams TPS and HJK, and it would require a miracle to finish in the top-three.
Inter forced their way to the final 8 in the Finland Cup, and this remains the easiest way to European competition for next season, and as that has been the target for the team they will probably focus more in the cup game away at KuPS on the 1st of October than risking their players in the insignificant matches in the league.
Unless there were bad news in the U21- matches (Finland played Holland and Poland away) during the week Inter have no major injuries to worry about.
Honka: 1 Tuomas Peltonen 15/0 – 20 Nicolas Otaru 17/2 - 13 Ville Koskimaa 10/1 - 5 Henri Aalto 13/0 - 6 Hermanni Vuorinen 20/14 -28 Rasmus Schuller 13/2 - 10 Jami Puustinen 19/4 - 26 Jaakko Lepola 14/4 - 17 Demba Savage 18/4 - 19 Rami Hakanpää 19/2 – 21 Joel Perovuo 20/3
Bench: 27 Konsta Rasimus 1/0, 12 Janne Henriksson (gk) 6/0, 15 Aleksandr Kokko 14/0, 11 Hannu Haarala 11/0, 3 Roope Heilala 15/0, 14 Jussi Vasara 20/5, 7 John Weckström 7/1, 2 Sampo Koskinen 13/0
Out: 8 Markus Paatelainen 0/0 injured, Jani Bäckman 9/1 loaned to Klubi-04 for the rest of the season, defender Jarkkö Värttö 0/0 loaned to FC Lahti
Coach: Mika Lehkosuo
Inter Turku: 1 Patrick Bantamoi (gk)18/0 – 6 Jermu Gustafsson 6/0 – 7 Ari Nyman 20//0 – 9 Guillano Grot 14/3 – 11 Timo Furuholm 18/9 – 14 Joni Aho 17/1 – 18 Ats Purje 16/3 – 15 Severi Paajanen 20/0 - 17 Mika Ojala 17/2 - 5 Alberto Ramirez 18/1 - 29 Henri Lehtonen 19/1
Bench: 8 Touko Tumanto 9/0, 21 Pablo Gomez-Marttila 0/0, 27 Kennedy 17/1, 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 12/0, 22 Sami Sanevuori 12/0, 24 Joni Kauko 16/2, 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
TamU - IFK Mariehamn
TamU: 3-1-0-1-0-3
MIFK:1-1-1-3-3-1
H2H:4-3-3
Last game in Veikkausliiga:31.5.09 IFK Mariehamn – TamU 1-0
TamU have been in turmoil the whole season and there have been talks of going bankrupt all the time. Now some of the fears have materialized, the players and everyone else´s fees were cut and for those who did not agree an option was given, going elsewhere. Two of the key players wanted new challenges for the rest of the season and are looking for gold in the top teams, defender Mathias Lindström got sold to HJK Helsinki and midfielder Jussi Kujala is now a player for TPS Turku.
TamU have little to play for in the league and selling the best players surely does not help, but in the Cup they face local rivals Haka and something to play for the rest of the season, if they still exist that is. In the last round they got an undeserved away win at KuPS, but against IFK the challenge is a lot bigger, like a mountain to climb.
IFK Mariehamn are still almost undefeated in the league, the away loss to HJK in May being their only game lost so far, and traditionally they did not take part in the cup at all. During the break IFK have tested a couple of new players but have not made any decisions yet, and they played a friendly against Allsvenskan side Gefle IF and lost 1-0. The good news was that Dmytro Pronevych has recovered almost full match-fitness and played for the first time this season since April.
IFK continue in the top and are eager to take on TamU and the other established top teams in the league in the final rounds and everything is still possible for the Islanders. No injuries for IFK at this point, the second choice goal-keeper Willis Ochieng has been out with the Kenian national team during the break.
TamU: Mikko Kavén (gk) 9/0 - 18 Rafinha 20/4 -13 Sakari Saarinen 18/0 - 9 Juha Pirinen 5/0 - 17 Vili Savolainen 17/0 - 16 Ilari Ruuth 8/0 - 5 Antti Ojanperä 18/1 - 22 Henri Scheweleff 19/1 - 11 Aleksei Kangaskolkka 19/4 - 30 Jari Niemi 19/0 - 10 Tomi Petrescu 9/1
Bench: 21 Jonne Hjelm 20/2, 12 Juha Soukiala (gk) 11/0, 14 Jusu Karvonen 6/0, 8 Antti Pohja 8/1,
Out: 2 Toni Järvinen 0/0, 25 Aapo Lappalainen 2/0, 23 Chris James 2/1, 20 Juska Savolainen 15/1 (return to Rosenborg) 3 Mathias Lindström 19/1 sold to HJK, 7 Jussi Kujala 18/2 sold to TPS
Coach: Ari Hjelm
MIFK : 29 Gustav Långbacka 20/0 - 24 Mate Dujilo 16/1 - 6 Marcus Olofsson 19/3 – 22 Alexandros Pappas 19/0 – 23 Paulus Arajuuri 18/1 – 8 Kenneth Gustavsson 17/2 - 9 Ante Simunac 17/3 – 10 Tamás Gruborovics 20/5 – 15 Amos Ekhalie 9/0 – 30 Sasha Anttilainen 10/1- 26 Wilhelm Ingves 18/3
Bench: 1 Willis Ochieng (gk) 1/0, 2 Dmytro Voloshyn 8/0, 4 Johan Carlsson 16/1, 18 Dmytro Pronevych 2/0, 11 Mika Niskala 16/1, 14 Arsim Gashi 17/1
Unavailable:-
Coach : Pekka Lyyski
JJK - FF Jaro
JJK : 1-3-0-1-0-0
Jaro:1-0-1-0-0-1
H2H:0-0-1
Last game in Veikkausliiga:31.05.09 Jaro – JJK 5-1
JJK are facing the truth in the final rounds. Their material is not good enough for survival and to stay in the league they need a bit of luck and a lot of fighting spirit. They did not have enough of either at the hands of MYPA in the rescheduled match last week, and they had to travel home with a 4-0 to think about.
Midfielder Toni Koskela is facing a career-threatening knee operation, but otherwise they no injuru worries, Niko Kautto, Sami Myllymäki and Niko Markkula will play the rest of the season at Kakkonen team FCJ Blackbird.
Jaro won last time in the league 14.6 home against RoPS, which means they have played 10 games without a win since then. Firing the coach and replacing him with a Jaro – legend Alexei Eremenko Sr thus came as no surprise to no one, and he started his coaching career with a goalless draw at MYPA. After that they have had a couple of weeks to get to know each other, learn new strategies and concentrate on the mental side to get ready for the final six rounds. Jaro are not seriously in danger of relegation, but if they lose a couple of games things might change dramatically and the away game at JJK is an important one to keep a relaxed atmosphere in the team.
JJK: 30 Mihaly Szerovay 17/0 – 25 Dejan Brankovic 2/0 - 5 Ik Kuyng Nam 18/7 – 7 Anssi Viren 18/1 – 9 Mika Lahtinen 19/3 – 10 Tommi Kari 17/4 – 14 Jukka Sinisalo 18/0 – 19 Christian Sund 17/1 – 13 Tuomas Latikka 18/0 - 23 Patrick Poutiainen 9/1 – 11 Georgij Hristov 6/1
Bench: 31 Antti-Jussi Karnio (gk) 3/0, 8 Matti Lähitie 14/0, 18 Zakaria Abahassine 13/0, 3 Janne Hannula 12/0, 22 Shkumbiu Arsllani 3/0, 6 Jukka-Pekka Tuomanen 10/0, 15 Antto Tapaninen 0/0
Out: 21 Toni Koskela 17/0 , 24 Niko Kautto 0/0 loan to FCJ, 17 Hyun-Kwan Kim 4/0 left the team, 4 Markus Paija 7/0 left the team for KaaPo, 16 Niko Markkula 7/0 loan to FCJ, 12 Sami Myllymäki gk 0/0 on loan to FCJ
Coach: Ville Priha
Jaro: 1 Markus Koljander 17/0 – 6 Janne Vellamo 17/0 - 5 Kristian Kojola 20/2 – 2 Jani Tanska 20/1 - 20 Tillman Grove 2/0 – 10 Jonas Emet 19/3 – 17 Petter Meyer 19/3 - 18 Mikko Hyyrynen 18/3 – 19 Sebastian Mannström 20/4 – 22 Jens Portin 19/0 – 23 Joonas Laurikainen 20/3
Bench: 30 Jesse Öst 0/0, 11 Jani Koivisto 11/1, 13 Jani Sarajärvi 6/0, 26 Tommi Haanpää 2/0, 12 Vitali Teles (gk) 2/0, 9 Björn-Erik Sundqvist 8/1, 27 Urmas Rooba 1/0, 16 Papa Niang 18/2, 7 Marco Matrone 14/1, 21 Daniel Fellman 8/0
Unavailable: 8 Jari Sara 0/0, 3 Heikki Aho 8/0
Coach : Alexei Eremenko Sr
HJK - RoPS
HJK: 1-1-1-1-3
RoPS: 3-0-0-0-1-0
H2H:12-3-3
Last game in Veikkausliiga:31.05.09 RoPS – HJK 1-0
HJK started the season as the biggest favourite, and they occupy the top spot with TPS when there are six rounds to play. HJK have suffered the whole season with injuries in the midfield and the captain Tuomas Haapala has missed most of the season. HJK got an important player for center defence in Mathias Lindström, who transferred from TamU for the rest of season.
In their last league game HJK got finally a win away at Lahti after a long spell of draws, but in the cup KuPS proved to be too much to handle and kicked HJK out of the cup.
Haapala 6/0 is still out injured and HJK also need to build the defence anew as the left defender Jukka Raitala who has played all the games is due to a transfer to a Bundesliga team TSG Hoffenheim.
RoPS away have a been a points automat for the home teams so far and there is little to expect from Helsinki either. The individual skill of the players is on a good level, but they do not work well enough as a team and drop easy points from games that they might as well win. The new recruit Ani seems to solve some of the goal-scoring problems after having scored already twice in the two games played so far.
No major injury worries for RoPS.
HJK: 1 Wille Wallén 20/0 – 3 Mikko Hauhia 19/0 – 5 Jukka Sauso 18/0 – 19 Aki Riihilahti 4/1 – 6 Cheyne Fowler 11/1 – 9 Sebastian Sorsa 20/4 – 10 Juho Mäkelä 20/4 - 13 Pyry Kärkkäinen 20/2 – 14 Valeri Popovits 16/3 – 17 Dawda Bah 19/5 – Mathias Lindström 20/1
Bench: 2 Tuomas Kansikas 5/0, 12 Jani Viander (gk) 0/0, 21 Petri Oravainen 13/0, 26 Johannes Westö 2/0, 27 Mikko Sumusalo 1/0, 28 Nosh A Lody 0/0, 31 Akseli Pelvas 15/5, 32 Sami Salmi 0/0, 16 Jarno Parikka 19/3, 8 Ville Taulo 7/0, 15 Paulus Roiha 3/0, 18 Juhani Ojala 4/0, 4 Medo 17/3
Unavailable: 7 Tuomas Haapala 6/0, 20 Jukka Raitala 20/0 transferrer to TSG Hoffenheim
Coach : Antti Muurinen
RoPS: 1 Jung-Huyk Kwom (gk) 19/0 – 4 Stephen Kunda 20/0 – 15 Mika- Matti Maisonvaara 17/1 - 3 Marko Koivuranta 8/0 - 11 Chileshe Chibwe 19/2 - 10 Chanda Mwaba 20/1 - 30 Echiabhi Okodugha 20/5 - 6 Joonas Ikäläinen 19/2 - 19 Janne Turpeenniemi 14/0 - 8 Nchimunya Mweetwa 11/0 - 17 Ville Syväjärvi 16/0
Bench: 2 Godfrey Chibanga 16/0, 9 Zeddy Saileti 14/1, 13 Jukka Yrjänheikki 4/0, 20 Juha-Pekka Inkeröinen 9/0, 12 Kari-Pekka Syväjärvi (gk) 2/0, 7 Jarno Tenkula 2/0, 23 Jeremieh Ani 2/2, 5 White Simwanza 16/0, 18 Christopher Musonda 19/3
Out: 22 Juuso Majava 0/0, 16 Jeferson Pires 7/1 on loan to FC OPA
Coaches: Zeddy Saileti & Mika Lumijärvi
KuPS - Haka
KuPS: 1-1-1-3-3-0
Haka: 0-1-0-1-1-1
H2H:4-3-11
Last game in Veikkausliiga:31.05.09 Haka – KuPS 3-0
KuPS showed HJK in the cup that all the talk about KuPS being a decent team nowadays were all true, and only some bad luck against TamU in the last league game stopped them for getting again some valuable points to get rid of the relegation threat.
For this game KuPS get back important players from suspension and the injury list, and Ollo 15/2, Joonas Pöntinen 4/0, Segun Ikudehinbu 6/0 and Balazs Balogh 14/1are available again.
Haka beat JJK in the cup 2-1 last week, but the performance was far from acceptable, again. They have last won a league game more than two months ago, 5.7.09 at MYPA. It has become clear to everyone now that their spot at the top of the table half-way the season was mostly down to luck and a good fixture list. Because of the good first half of the season they are still fifth in the table however, and in theory have chances for a top finish, but judging by the performances they should be battling against relegation with teams like JJK and RoPS.
Important mf Sami Ristilä 16/2 is sidelined due injury, the new Ecuadorian signing Cagua might get his debut at Kuopio.
KuPS: 1 Ville Iiskola 17/0 – 8 Tero Taipale 20/0 – 20 Miikka Ilo 19/1 - 3 Janne Reinikainen 17/0 - 23 Jussi-Pekka Savolainen 16/0 – 6 Tuomas Kuparinen 14/1 – 28 Raphael Udah 4/0 – 10 Ilja Venäläinen 18/5 - 11 Pele Koljonen 17/5 - 7 Miikka Turunen 18/2 - 26 Dickson Nwakaeme 5/1
Bench: 17 Jussi Kolari 0/0, 24 Atte Hoivala 8/0, 22 Jyrki Juvonen 1/0, 13 Betim Aliju 9/0, 27 Segun Ikudehinbu 6/0, 15 Ollo 15/2, 12 Joonas Pöntinen (gk) 4/0, 9 Balazs Balogh 14/1
Out: 5 Jani Hartikainen 10/0 for the rest of the season, 21 Jesse Miettinen 0/0, 2 Joni Nissinen 1/0, 4 Patrik Turunen 14/0,
Coach: Esa Pekonen
Haka: 1 Janne Korhonen 20/0 - 4 Markus Joenmäki 9/0 - 3 Petri Viljanen 13/0 - 21 Pietari Holopainen 16/5 - 22 Jarno Mattila 20/1 - 6 Sebastian Strandvall 20/6 - 7 Mikko Innanen 20/2 - 11 Antti Hynynen 18/5 - 41 Valeri Minkenen 10/0 - 8 Jani Kauppila 20/0 - 9 Niko Ikävalko 17/3
Bench: 12 Saku Pesonen (gk) 0/0, 18 Jari Nikkilä 16/0, Antti Hakala 1/0, 10 Mika Mäkitalo 17/2, 19 Juuso Salonen 3/0, 17 Kalle Multanen, Jhon Cagua 0/0 from Ecuador
Out: 5 Kalle Parviainen 0/0, 15 Nicolas Kivistö 6/0 transferred to Gnistan at Kakkonen, 28 Hans Denissen 5/0 (freed from contract), 2 Diego Corpache 15/1, 20 Sami Ristilä 16/2
Coach: Olli Huttunen
TPS - FC Lahti
TPS: 1-1-3-3-3-1
Lahti: 1-1-3-0-0-0
H2H:9-4-6
Last game in Veikkausliiga:31.05.09 Lahti – TPS 2-4
TPS have been unbeatable in the league for a long time, but last match at Mariehamn brought them only one point and in the Cup FC Honka got an astonishing 2-6 win after extra time and perhaps TPS camp is not that sure about themselves anymore in the top of the league. Goal-keeper Jukka Lehtovaara got chosen as the best player of the league in August, but he has been out with the U21-team for two away matches lately while the others have rested.
No injuries for TPS.
FC Lahti lost their last game in the league 1-2 against HJK, but fought their way into the final 8 teams in the Cup, and as there is little to fight for in the league but everything to win in the Cup that is probably where their emphasis for the rest of the season lies. Lahti defense especially has been vulnerable to injuries, and they got a promising defender Jarkko Värttö from FC Honka to help them for the rest of the season.
Jari Litmanen has been with the national team in Azerbaidzhan and Liechtenstein during the international break and is unlikely to play.
TPS: 12 Jukka Lehtovaara 19/0 – 2 Iiro Aalto 19/0 – 18 Chris Cleaver 16/0 - 6 Jaakko Nyberg 18/2 - 7 Sami Rähmönen 20/0 – 8 Jarno Heinikangas 20/0 – 9 Mikko Manninen 19/0 – 14 Kasper Hämäläinen 19/0 – 28 Mikko Paatelainen 20/5 – 20 Babatunde Wusu 19/6 - 21 Wayne Brown 20/6
Bench: 3 Kalle Mäkinen 0/0, 4 Igor Jovanovic 3/0, 11 Mika Ääritalo 10/3, 17 Roope Riski 0/0, 29 Yll Hoxha 8/0, 23 Juho Lähde 0/0, 24 Jani Aaltonen 0/0, 25 Santeri Mäkinen 0/0, 27 Tuomas Markkula 0/0, 31 Alban Ferati 0/0, 1 Jani Tuomala (gk) 1/0, 10 Riku Riski 18/4
Out:13 Samu-Petteri Mäkelä 8/0 (return to PoPa), 5 Simo Valakari 7/0, 9 Patrik Lomski 6/0 (loan to KPV), 22 Jesse Saarinen 0/0 (loan to KPV)
Coach: Pasi Rautiainen
FC Lahti: 1 Viktor Szentpeteri 12/0 –15 Jukka Vanninen 18/1 – 12 Toni Huuhka 16/1 - 2 Heikki Haara 17/1 – 6 Kalle Eerola 17/0 - 8 Mohamed Fofana 18/4 - 9 Rafael 18/3 – 11 Drilon Shala 20/5 – 14 Konsta Hietanen 19/0 – 19 Riku Heini 14/0 - 17 Eero Korte 20/2
Bench: 21 Kaarlo Rantanen 8/0, 22 Juha Tuomi (gk) 8/0, 10 Jari Litmanen 11/0, ,20 Jonne Kemppinen 17/2, 13 Jussi Länsitalo 10/2, 3 Henri Toivomäki 18/0, 24 Jarkko Värttö 0/0, 5 Jari Holopainen 1/0
Unavailable: 7 Jukka Veltheim 2/0 for the rest of the season, 16 Jussi Heikkinen 2/0, 4 Janne Moilanen 7/0
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