Finland league cup kicks off 22th January with 2 exciting matches

Which, to be honest, is very good news. Not that I do not like European football because I love it, but to make a profit out of it requires a lot more hard work (if you can call watching football on telly as hard work, well there is some trading involved) than my own leagues. There is also a need to use secondary sources which is not my preferred style of doing things.

All the information and knowlegde about Finnish football is already cumulated in my database and in my head.

Haka will host JJK on Friday at 12.30 unless it gets too cold (-10 forecasted which would be acceptable) as the match is scheduled to take place outdoors, and last season´s runner-up FC Honka  welcome third placed TPS at Esport Areena, indoors, at 14.00 CET.

I have my estimations more or less ready, but need to get my bets in first to be able to discuss this any further. The markets at smaller leagues are way too vulnerable and the margins too small and there is really no room for spoiling the advantage of getting your hands into fresh early asian prices!.

The last weekend of January I am heading to a traditional cup competition at Lahti, named as Uusi Lahti Cup. There will be 4 matches both Friday and Saturday and two on Sunday. It helps a lot in trying to identify some new players for the participating clubs.  HJK, Tamu, KuPs, Haka, Lahti, PoPa, City Stars and JK Viljandi Tulevik.

Odds for League Cup on Friday, I think. Fixtures for this competition here.


EDIT: Surpisingly the early odds came today to Sbobet, unfortunately only with the following lines which I happily took already, but with limits and the odds dropped right away.

Honka did sell their playmaker and most influential player Joel Perovuo to Djurgården and also Rasmus Schuller will be out for several weeks, but there is a lot of depth in the squad still, and at home at Esport they have been almost invincible year after year. TPS have lost all of their midfield including best players Wayne Brown and Kasper Hämäläinen, not to mention the talismanic and very peculiar manager Pasi Rautiainen and should be suffering again at Espoo. Last time around they lost 4-0 if my memory serves me right, but it could had gone a lot worse.

Honka - 0,25 @ 1.77

is a steal, but the JJK odds - and handicaps - are the ones which will go down soon! Pure madness from our Asian friends and obviously estimated directly from the final table of 2009. JJK 2010 is the better team of these two!


JJK + 1,25 @ 1.80

Edit2: JJK + 1 @ 1.98 now. Very much worth taking!

Edit3: they are learning it the hard way, JJK + 1 now 1.63. 


Edit4: The Haka match is postponed and bookies got help from the sky. The price for JJK  + 0,75 is now 1.66, but like I said the game is off.


No streams available for these but they will be open for livebetting. However, as I probably mentioned before or at least Nordic Football News have, most Veikkausliiga matches this season will be televised.