HJK vs Ilves Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

HJK

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HJK will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 0-1 Veikkausliiga victory vs FC Inter Turku.

In that game, HJK had 48% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player to score for HJK was Bojan Radulović (42'). FC Inter Turku had 7 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

An interesting theme in recent HJK games is the number of nil scores.

From their prior 6 matches leading up to this one, in 5 of them a bet on both teams scoring would have lost.

Ilves

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Ilves head into the clash following a 3-1 Veikkausliiga win as they beat SJK in their previous fixture.

In that game, Ilves had 46% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For Ilves, the goalscorers were Tuomas Ollila (35') and Kai Meriluoto (52', 89'). On the other side, SJK got 6 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Josepablo Monreal (9') was the scorer for SJK.

Ilves have attacked well leading up to this encounter, scoring 13 times in their last 6 matches. Having said that, Ilves can also improve defensively after being scored against in 5 of those same games. In any event, it remains to be seen if that trend shall be maintained in this game.

Ahead of this meeting, Ilves have not won away from home in their last 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 19/10/2019 tells us that HJK have won 5 of these & Ilves 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

An aggregate of 19 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 13 of them from Klubi and 6 being from Ipa. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

The previous league meeting between these sides was Veikkausliiga match day 2 on 16/10/2021 when it finished Ilves 2-3 HJK.

In that game, Ilves managed 37% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player to score was Tuomas Ollila (83').

On the other side, HJK had 6 shots at goal with 4 on target. Murillo (2' Own goal), Valtteri Moren (14') and Jair (45', 47') scored.

The match was refereed by Joni Hyytia.

📋 Team News: HJK

The HJK manager Toni Koskela has no fitness concerns at all coming into this clash owing to a completely injury-free squad available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Ilves

Thanks to a fully injury-free group ready to go, the Ilves manager Toni Kallio has zero fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this match.

✨ Prediction

We’re of the view that HJK will most probably dominate possession and create several successful chances.

However, Ilves may well find it hard getting on the scoresheet although we do reckon that they could well end up converting at least once here, too.

We reckon that it will be a decent 3-1 winning margin for HJK at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 00:52 04/05/2022