FIN week 2 review

No competitive matches yet, but it will change on week 3 when FIN cup group phase and U20 league will kick off.

As all of these are friendlies there is not much point to look at the result, expect perhaps from a betting point of view. A lot of matches were matches of two halves, a lot of substitutions were made. Mostly at half-time.

FIN nt won a game! Morocco at neutral ground, but that team is a b team who got lucky, and disposed in the next match vs Slovenia B.

HIFK tested a lot of youngsters who are not going to play this season in Veikkausliiga if ever, and their 2 goals were all down to KuPS keepers shaky hands.

Kultsu, Pepo and MiPK played a tournament with shorter playing time and a heavy schedule. We can ignore all those results.

EIF squad was a far cry of a Ykkönen one.

OPS at the moment, and at most of the moments, was a joke of a team. Managers 14 year old son played there too.

Fin u17 continue their tournament on Monday vs BLR, but more of the week in the next post.

					ft		ahc home
9.1.2017	Morocco	Fin	int	friendly	0	1	−1
13.1.2017	Slovenia	Fin	int	friendly	2	0	0.25
13.1.2017	EsPa	GrIFK	club	friendly	0	5	0,75
13.1.2017	TPS	SalPa	club	friendly	1	1
13.1.2017	HIFK	KuPS	club	friendly	2	3	0.75
14.1.2017	Kultsu	MiPK	club	friendly	1	1
14.1.2017	PePo	MiPK	club	friendly	2	1
14.1.2017	Kultsu	Jippo	club	friendly	2	4
14.1.2017	JiPPO	PePo	club	friendly	0	2
14.1.2017	SJK	Ilves	club	friendly	2	1
14.1.2017	HJS	Haka	club	friendly	0	6
14.1.2017	Gnistan	EIF	club	friendly	3	0	0
14.1.2017	JäPS	Viikingit	club	friendly	1	3	−0,5
14.1.2017	Jaro	OPS	club	friendly	4	0
14.1.2017	KäPa	NuPS	club	friendly	2	1	0
14.1.2017	Legirus	Espoo	club	friendly	3	3	−0,5
14.1.2017	IFK Mariehamn	FC Åland	club	friendly
14.1.2017	KTP	KuFu	club	friendly	5	1
14.1.2017	HJK	PKKU	w	friendly	9	0
14.1.2017	TuPS	PKKU	club	friendly	0	3
14.1.2017	SJK Akat	VIFK	club	friendly
14.1.2017	Lahti	Honka	club	friendly	2	1
15.1.2017	PePo	Kultsu	club	friendly
15.1.2017	SVK	Fin	U17	friendly	1	1	−0,25

SJK - Ilves odds

FIN starting lineup vs Morocco

1 Walter Viitala

5 Juhani Ojala

6 Matej Hradecky

7 Simon Skrabb

8 Juha Pirinen

11 Rasmus Schüller

13 Kari Arkivuo (C)

15 Markus Halsti

16 Sakari Mattila

20 Petteri Forsell

21 Tim Väyrynen

Vaihdossa:

12 Mika Hilander

23 Markus Uusitalo

2 Albin Granlund

3 Kristian Kojola

4 Sauli Väisänen

10 Akseli Pelvas

17 Joni Kauko

18 Robert Taylor

19 Jasse Tuominen

22 Mikko Sumusalo

FT 0-1 (0-1)

Whole match at youtube

Biggest FIN transfer 2017 so far

From Ilves (HJK U17 before that)

A link to an article telling more.

Finland football week 1/2017 preview

From now on the plan is to introduce the week of FIN football ahead on Mondays. It will not 100% guaranteed to be up to date - especially now on preseason - but the matches mentioned here will be the ones I place on Blogabet service. There will be cases when the match is not yet known on Monday but will be played over the weekend, but it does not matter in the big picture.

On year 2017 there will be +95 % FIN football only, hopefully 100%, in that case there would be only to blame and thank for the winning&losing picks. Me.

But a long story short, here are the fixtures for the week 1 in Finland:

7.1 NuPs vs Gnistan 12:00 CET

NuPs promoted to Kakkonen, Gnistan promoted from Kakkonen to Ykkönen. Indoors, 30 km distance. This very much depends on who plays - during Dec there were very little teams - but last summer this would has been some -2 ahc at the markets.

7.1. Ilves vs TPV 12:00 CET

A derby between league and Kakkonen, thus another -2 would be understandable. However for Ilves this is nothing, they will face SJK the following week and also start the cup later in Jan. I would field a lot of kids at Ilves if this was up to me. Indoors.

Edit: Ilves preview out, 5-6 best players out. Makes any big handicaps a stupid idea.

8.1. TamU vs Lahti Akatemia 17:15 CET

TamU who once were the champions have started their climb back from pub leagues after they got kicked off from FA leagues because of Perumal a few good years back. TamU will probably have a decent Kakkonen class side this year, of Lahti Akatemia one will never know beforehand as they are the reserves of the Lahti league team. Indoors.

Not yet the busiest of weeks, but there are some 70 fixtures in January and there will be a lot of gems out there, and there will be a plenty of live picks during the preseason. Already now I know that Ilves and TamU matches have been sold to live bet reporting services and will be somewhere available.

PK-35 bankrupt

And very likely not taking part in any of the competitions in the near future, unless something unexpected happens of course.

FIN squad vs UKR 12.11.2016

No surprises. There never are.... but Skrabb is kind of a new face. Roman Eremenko "naturally" missing.

Lukas Hradecky, Eintracht Frankfurt

Niki Mäenpää, Brighton & Hove Albion FC

Jesse Joronen, Fulham FC

Kari Arkivuo, BK Häcken

Janne Saksela, RoPS

Paulus Arajuuri, KKS Lech Poznan

Juhani Ojala, SJK

Sauli Väisänen, AIK

Thomas Lam, Nottingham Forest FC

Albin Granlund, IFK Mariehamn

Jukka Raitala, Sogndal IL

Joona Toivio, Molde FK

Markus Halsti, FC Midtjylland

Perparim Hetemaj, AC Chievo Verona

Alexander Ring, 1.FC Kaiserslautern

Robin Lod, Panathinaikos FC

Joni Kauko, Randers FC

Sakari Mattila, SønderjyskE

Rasmus Schüller, BK Häcken

Teemu Pukki, Brøndby IF

Simon Skrabb, Gefle IF

Roope Riski, SJK

Eero Markkanen, AIK