FIN women vs Slovakia - the live enterntainment for today

12 Tinja-Riikka Korpela
  8 Katri-Nokso Koivisto
  2 Maija Saari (k)
16 Anna Westerlund
  3 Tuija Hyyrynen

  7 Annika Kukkonen
11 Pernilla Nordlund

19 Essi Sainio
21 Emmi Alanen
  9 Marianna Tolvanen

18 Linda Sällström

Fin U21 vs Azerbaidzhan April 4th

Hopefully to be updated..

Gk

Walter Viitala, FC Honka

Jesse Öst, FF Jaro

Df

Tapio Heikkilä, FC Honka

Samu Nieminen, JJK

Sami Räsänen, KuPS

Mf & att

Juuso Simpanen, FC Honka

Duarte Tammilehto, FC Honka

Tim Väyrynen, FC Honka

Petteri Forsell, IFK Mariehamn

Jaakko Lepola, FC Lahti

Ville Salmikivi, FC Viikingit

Kalle Kauppi, FC Inter

Joni Kauko, FC Inter

Jesper Engström, VPS

Denis Abdulahi, VPS

Niko Markkula, JJK

Patrick Poutiainen, JJK

Kim Palosaari, SJK

TPS - MyPa FT 4-0 highlights

HJK - KuPS highlights FT 2-1 league cup 2012

Fin women away at Slovakia March 31st

Gk
Tinja-Riikka Korpela, Lilleström SK (5.5.1986) – 37 / 0
Katja Kankaanpää, TPS (5.6.1991) – 0 / 0

Df
Tuija Hyyrynen, Umeå IK (10.3.1988) – 41 / 0
Anna Westerlund, Piteå IF (9.4.1989) – 41 / 0
Maija Saari, AIK (26.3.1986) – 60 / 6
Katri Nokso-Koivisto, Jitex BK (22.11.1982) – 62 / 1
Susanna Lehtinen, KIF Örebro (8.5.1983) – 59 / 3
Emma Koivisto, HJK (25.9.1994) – 1 / 0

Rest
Pernilla Nordlund, no club (10.10.1990) – 13 / 0
Annika Kukkonen, LdB FC Malmö (12.4.1990) – 22 / 0
Emmi Alanen, Kokkola F10 (30.4.1991) – 13 / 1
Tiina Saario, HJK (15.1.1982) – 8 / 0
Marianna Tolvanen, HJK (27.12.1992) – 14 / 2
Essi Sainio, SC Freiburg (9.9.1986) – 43 / 3
Leena Puranen, Jitex BK (16.10.1986) – 42 / 4
Annica Sjölund, Jitex BK (31.3.1985) – 56 / 13
Linda Sällström, Linköpings FC (13.7.1988) – 52 / 25
Sanna Talonen, KIF Örebro (15.6.1984) – 72 / 13

Finnish Cup 5th round 2012

18.3. 14.30 FC Muurola - FC Hämeenlinna 0-5
22.3. 17.30 KPV - JJK 0-5
22.3. 18.30 VG-62 - FC KooTeePee 0-5
24.3. 14.00 NuPS - JIPPO 1-7
24.3. 15.00 FC Jazz - SJK 3-2 ET
24.3. 16.00 Gnistan - BK-46 1-0
24.3. 16.15 TPV - AC Oulu 0-3
24.3. 18.00 Lahden Reipas - LPS 0-4
25.3. 15.00 SC Riverball - Hämeenlinnan Härmä 1-0
25.3. 15.00 JPS - Pallo-Iirot 3-2
25.3. 18.45 Maskun Palloseura - EIF 2-3
25.3. 19.30 MaKu Baltika - FC Lahti 1-8
27.3. 16.00 Klubi 04 - IFK Mariehamn 1-2 ET
27.3. 18.00 Nokian Palloseura - Haka 1 -7 
27.3. 19.00 JäPS - FC Espoo 2-1 
31.3. 17.00 RiPS - FC Kuusysi
31.3. 17.00 FC Santa Claus - MP
31.3. 18.00 PS Kemi - GBK
01.4. 18.30 FC Futura - HIFK
                Atlantis FC - FC Kiffen


Follow it up at soccerway!

Away favourites in most of the matches. 6th round draw on March 23rd; winners of these 20 matches added with 4 losers from the League Cup 1/8-finals. Honka, KuPS, Jaro and TPS/MyPa.

FIN U15 tonight!

Exciting night for the kids for sure - the first international.

Jaro vs Inter official preview by Jaro

Fin U18 at Slovakia early April 2012

To play a couple of friendlies - and miss the local league cup final meanwhile back home April 4th.


Daniel Kollár, FC Honka
Erik Lundberg, IFK Mariehamn
Lassi Nurmos, AC Oulu
Ville Rannikko, TPS
Juuso Kupiainen, KuPS
Dani Hatakka, FC Honka
Matias Ojala, AC Oulu
Matti Klinga, FC Lahti
Simon Skrabb, FF Jaro 
Jesper Brechtel, SC Karlsruhe
Joonas Jokinen, Wycombe Wanderers FC
Joose Koskiranta, FC Midtjylland
Felipe Aspegren, HJK
Jerry Voutilainen, KuPS
Emerik Grönroos, HJK              
Joel Pohjanpalo, HJK
Daniel O´Shaughnessy, FC Metz
Patrick Aaltonen, FC Honka

Honka - Astana 5-0 highlights

I am afraid Astana is not the proper benchmark here.

FIN league cup 1/8-finals

TPS-MYPA 23.3
FC Honka-VPS
FF Jaro-FC Inter
HJK-KuPS 21.3

League Cup group standings before the final game

 TPS             6  5  0  1 11- 3 15    
 FC Inter        6  4  0  2 11- 3 12    
 Haka            6  1  1  4  3-10  4    
 IFK Mariehamn   6  1  1  4  5-14  4    
                                        
 LOHKO 2                                
                                        
 FC Honka        6  4  1  1 15- 6 13    
 HJK             6  3  0  3 10-12  9    
 MYPA            6  2  1  3  7-11  7    
 FC Lahti        6  1  2  3  9-12  5    
                                        
 LOHKO 3                                
                                        
 FF Jaro         6  3  1  2  7- 6 10    
 KuPS            5  2  2  1  6- 6  8    
 JJK             6  2  1  3 10-11  7    
VPS             5  2  0  3  6- 6  6 

Everthing else is now clear except the destiny of Group 3. Jaro and KuPS are definitely 

through to 1/8-finals next week, but the 3rd place goes either to JJK or VPS.

1/8-finals next week if I got the rules right:

Honka - KuPS/JJK/VPS 

TPS   - MyPa

Jaro/KuPS - Inter

HJK - KuPS/Jaro/VPS

League Cup March 14th

A lot of stakes still in the league cup group phase Only four matches to go, still qualification places in the open While some teams (HJK, Honka, MIFK) enjoy life on their Turkey camp the others are still playing group phase matches in sub-zero temperatures. 3 matches this afternoon; the last one KuPS - VPS on Saturday. However qualifying in this is not hugely important but of course for the winner there is some money at stake. Those clubs eliminated in the group phase will join the Finnish Cup 5th round, but none of them should face too many problems in qualifying into 6th round there as they will face lower league clubs. League cup 1/8-finals next week. All of these matches outdoors - which also reflects in match total lines. There were rather big market moves also last week, but 2 out 3 big dropped teams were losers in the end, so following the money does not lead automatically to riches here. I want to follow what happens until kick-off or into live, lets pretend the opening odds were correct enough not to get over-excited. I could get interested in Lahti and/or KuPS and in anything in Haka-game. Haka - TPS lineups local odds 3.80 - 3.50 - 1.70 Haka do still have a minor chance to qualify as third of their group if all the other matches go into their favour, TPS are group winners regardless the result here. Haka have been stubborn and they are perhaps hard to beat, but for them it is as hard to win games as they do not create that many goal chances. A typical "under" - team. TPS have had good results so far but I have not yet hesard anyone to say a good word of their performances - they have surprisingly gotten early goals and after that it has been easy for a counter-team like TPS. Haka are without both regular goalkeepers today and Heinä between the posts is 3rd choice - and the physio of the club. Pirinen, Marco Matrone and Lassi Luoto also missing. TPS without U20 players Santeri Mäkinen and Juho Lehtonen and injured Dennis Okaru. Some rotations and experiments will be made again, though the starting lineup looks relatively strong. Haka lineup not out yet, but all the rest should be available and apart from the the gk problem they are tough to open up. TPS odds rising strongly. Local odds for TPS are ridiculously short! There have been very bad quality free streams of Haka games recently atkoskinet.fi if you want to give it a chance. Last time it actually worked. KuPS - Jaro lineups local odds 2.05 - 3.20 - 3.00 Jaro are qualified, KuPS need to win one the two matches remaining. KuPS have signed now 3 new African players but no one has seen them play so estimating their input or value to the team is impossible to say. All of them are attacking players, and the one they got earlier - Obifuele - did impress in his first game. KuPS have 3 of their kids out with Fin U20 at Portugal. (Peth from Jaro) Jaro´s latest win away at JJK was no big game but reportedly they were less bad and thus perhaps deserved the 3 points available. Important Pietari Holopainen finally signed new contract with KuPS and will lead the defense. Given the home advantage, bigger motivation and pure class in rank KuPS -0,5 @ 2 might be even a good idea - at least if we believe the new Africans settle in artificial pitch conditions and sub-zero temperature quickly enough. Do we? Lahti - MyPa lineups 2.40 - 3.30 - 2.40 MyPa would qualify with a draw or win for sure, and in any case if Haka does not win. For Lahti nothing at stake here. Creating ranking for Veikkausliiga is not the easiest thing to do this season, but these two will be the bottom two in the rank. They are not desperately much behind the midtable clubs, but lack a bit here and there and it makes all the difference compared to better clubs. The class difference here is pretty much non-existent, there is some derby flavour and  the odds are evenly set just as they should. Lahti have to think about how to replace their badly injured German CB and MyPa are most dangerous with set balls. MyPa are testing striker Pekka Sihvola whose abilities are actually well-known and Haka did not want to sign him another contract, but actually he would strengthen a team like MyPa 2012.   Neither of the clubs deserve to be favoured, I would take Lahti 0 here if forced as their lineup is ok and obviously they change the unreliable gk Tuomi. MyPa lineup not out but it is not great under any circumstances. ********** Finnish Cup; OPS - AC Oulu A big derby - but OPS team is far from finished at the moment. They will rely heavily on foreign labour and not all of the players have arrived yet and the preseason has been very bumpy ride with a low number of contracted players. European odds of ACO have dropped for this reason and AC Oulu has been - and will be - a popular choice. Too popular in fact... ******* HJK will play one more friendly tomorrow at Turkey, they drew 1-1 with BATE (+0.25!) which was a bit of a surprise and Thursday´s opponent is for me a completely unknown Russian 1st division club - it does not mean though that it would be any easier for HJK. Honka will meet Astana. ******** Smarkets.com A new betting exchange? The future? Betfair ancient history? God knows, I have no user experience of this yet and can not really recommend or say it is no use, but if you want to check it out  yourself by following this link there is a £ 5 free-bet in it for you - after deposit - and a free beer for me! LINK to Smarkets. And todays results: Haka - TPS 0-4 (0-2) Ojanperä 56 Pennanen 16 Lähde 37 Ääritalo 74 Ristola 90+1 LOHKO 2 FC Lahti - MYPA 2-0 (2-0) Kari 13 31 LOHKO 3 KuPS - FF Jaro 1-0 (1-0) Kalu 40

League cup odds for March 14th

A new betting exchange

Smarkets.com

Have to admit that I have not yet tried this out myself but at least they promise to have smaller commissions than Betfair.

Check it out - deposit a bit, get a free bet for £ 5 and I get a pint´s worth for every new account!

Start with this link here.

Odds for League Cup on March 10th

Market moves - there usually is some action.

And it was the 2 x those who rose who came out as winners in the end:

TPS - MIFK 3-0, VPS - JJK 1-2 and Haka - Inter 0-1. Inter rose up to 2.45 before kick-off, TPS - 0.75 @ 2.08.

Cup: Ilves - FC Hämeenlinna highlights

Oh how much I adore this guys effort in distributing Ilves highlights into youtube!

Finnish Cup 5th round draw

It will be about something like this, the FA do have a habit of messing this up. On this round those league clubs who get eliminated from the league cup will join the competition, on 6th round also those who get kicked out of the play-offs. The schedule is tight, matches now almost daily. Highlight of the round is the Oulu derby!

Division in brackets if 2 (Kakkonen) or above:

Gnistan (2)   -   BK-46 (2)

HIFK/2 or FC Kuusysi (2)   -   RiPS

FC KooTeePee  (1)    -   KyIF or VG-62

PP–j or  EIF (2)    -   Maskun Palloseura

MaKu/Baltika    -   FC Lahti (L)

Lahden Reipas    -   LPS (2) or  EsPa (2)

KäPa or Atlantis FC (2)    -   SAPA or FC Kiffen (2)

Klubi 04 (2)    -    MIFK

HIFK (1)    -   FC Futura (2) or KTP (2)

LoPa (2) or JäPS  (2)   -   FC Espoo (2)

FC Santa Claus (2)   -   Sudet or MP (2)

FC Vaajakoski or SC Riverball    -   Hämeenlinnan Härmä (2) or STPS

FC Muurola    -   FC Hämeenlinna  (1)

SJK  (1)   -   IK Myran or FC Jazz (2)

Nokian Palloseura or I-HK    -   League club - worst 3rd placed

PS Kemi (2) or RoPS (1)    -   Jakobstads Bollklubb or  GBK (2)

Toejoen Veikot or KPV (2)    -   League cup 4th of group 3

Sastamalan Voima or NuPS    -   PK-37 (2) or JIPPO (1)

SexyPöxyt or TPV (2)    -   OPS (1) or AC Oulu (1)

FC Peltirumpu or JPS    -   Pallo-Iirot (2) 

Silly and strange own goal in Argentina

While I am wondering about the inconsistency of HJK and calculating my losses both in backing them and betting against with poor success it is relieving to see that it is not that easy always for the footballers either.

Here is a San Martin defender making an unexpected choice in front of his own goal, more about the league naturally at Argentinapreviews.com

Palloliitto wakey wakey

Only 2 wrong teams in the Ykkönen table for 2012. Have to admit that in your case it could be even worse.

Fin U20 away at Portugal March 13th -->

Gk

Walter Viitala, FC Honka

Ville Kauppinen, FC Haka

Df

Sami Räsänen, KuPS

Lum Rexhepi, FC Honka

Samu Nieminen, JJK

Atte Hoivala, KuPS

Johannes Nordström, IFK Mariehamn

Aapi Helvelahti, U.D.Dos Hermanas San Andrés

Rest

Santeri Mäkinen, TPS

Solomon Duah, FC Inter

Kalle Kauppi, FC Inter

Juho Lehtonen, TPS
Aleksi Paananen, KuPS

Jesper Engström, VPS

Kevin Peth, FF Jaro

Ibrahim Köse, FC Lahti

Ville Salmikivi, FC Viikingit