Unfairest result of all times?

There was a -1 asian handicap line available for this. Congratulations for all of you who took Empoli with a goal start!

Veikkausliiga 2019

Update 13.3 as Honka has quite fairly raised some interest:

Expected favourite, but at current lineups far from that big. Naturally these things tend to change.

Breaking - JJK and Kemi PS gave up Kakkonen

For financial reasons.

Both were meant to play in Kakkonen C - the North - but now that group is two teams short.

If there are willing clubs to replace them it will happen, but two clubs are needed, not only one.

Some other arrangements still possible as well, perhaps some clubs are transferred from A an B as it might be easier to find eager clubs from the South.

Time will tell, but it is rather late already now.

Veikkausliiga July 4th

Full round.

At Kemi there is another managerial change. Åhman had announced that he will leave after the season, but he got fired after their latest 0-1 loss vs VPS and replaced by a pair of Scottish footballing people.

Have to say people as neither David Hannah nor his assistant have a license to coach, and their are seeking special permission to do it. Hannah is said to have had some kind of a role in Kemi since February this year, but no one seemed to know he exists and his role was never announced, even the media person of Kemi PS was surprised to know that they have a Scottish sporting director.

Now Åhman was no genius as a coach, but he kept Kemi afloat for two seasons, and considering the player material and limited budget it is more than most others could ever do. He was well liked, and his assistants showed some decency and resigned.

This farce does not improve Kemi's survival chances one bit.

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Transfer window is about to open and there will be a few new and few familiar returning faces, but so far I have not seen any news that would make any real impact, oh well just as I speak KuPS have signed cb Pirttijoki from Sweden, and might turn out to be very useful for them. Let us see.

Asian odds from Sportmarket:

Expected points  (per game) until July 3rd:

Veikkausliiga 20-21.6

Local odds:

Asian odds from Sportmarket

Veikkausliiga June 12th

The big news during the intl break are that Inter Turku manager Fabrizio Piccareta is out.

The official version is that he left on his own initiative for personal reasons, but he was not fully accepted or appreciated within the team and there was very little success in Veikkausliiga, and the official truth is probably not the full truth.

We will never know.

He will be replaced by old dinosaur John Allen and defensive master Karo Virtanen. Now Allen is a relic whose methods and footballing philosophy are very simple and base on a good fight and effort but tactically there is very little be expected from him. Virtanen on the other hand was the main mastermind behind MIFK's title a few years back, and even if in general it is hard to predict what Inter will be like the rest of the season it is guaranteed that there will be some extra emphasis on the defense.


Expected points per game until June 12th:

This tool is about the become a bit useful now as there are matches vs everyone. There are a few easily identified better teams, a few weak ones and a lot of mid table clubs who can end up anywhere 4-10.

A few trends can be noticed, Honka rising, RoPS dropping and SJK likely improver in the near future.

Lineups and notes:


RoPS welcoming back Wato Kuate and Lappalainen, but in the defense they have Segawa and Geffrard and even VPS can take advantage of that. Hämäläinen on bench, why? Hyvärinen and Agnaldo out...

VPS perhaps have the honor of having made the worst foreign signings, and Guner is a top example of that.

Guess this ends somehow. X-X.

HJK still without Riski, Pelvas and Jalasto. Riski hopefully returns for European matches, but in these none of these is missed.  MIFK missing 3-5 regular starters depending on who you count. HJK to score +3 goals.

At SJK the big issues are the managerial change from a moron to a decent one, and Ions finally returning to match fitness.

TPS trying a bit of new things, but what can you do really when your material is Ykkönen class in general?

Lahti have Anier and Hostikka on the bench, last time they did it vs Kemi they did not get any goal scoring opportunities.

Honka missing only suspened gk Murray and winger Liikonen, but as even Korhonen is returning this is the strongest Honka so far this season. 

KuPS are now making ex-striker, winger Savolainen into a full-back. Good luck with that, there have been some signs that it might work. El Said unfortunately joined Egypt side, but at least exciting Murillo is still there. 

Ilves look like another random starting-11. I have lost count on what their actual optimal lineup might be.

Inter have their first match since manager Piccareta left, and I can not predict how the team will react as it was not a change everyone wanted. New managers Allen and Virtanen leave me somewhat cold.

Asian markets at Sportmarket:

FIN starting-11 vs ROM

A decent starting lineup regarding that there are some 10 players missing from the squad. The bench on the other hand looks rather sad.

 Vaihdossa:

12 Anssi Jaakkola 23 Walter Viitala 2 Albin Granlund 6 Glen Kamara 10 Moshtagh Yaghoubi 13 Pyry Soiri 15 Markus Halsti 18 Jere Uronen 20 Tim Väyrynen 21 Rasmus Karjalainen