📊 Form Guide

IFK Mariehamn

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IFK Mariehamn will be hoping to bounce back here following a 2-1 Veikkausliiga defeat in their last game at the hands of HJK.

The only name on the scoresheet from IFK Mariehamn was Adam Larsson (89'). Joona Toivio (11') and Tope Keskinen (66') scored for HJK.

Over their last 6 games, Bruno Romão's IFK Mariehamn have scored a combined total of 11 times giving them an average number of goals per match of 1.83.

Their past results show that IFK Mariehamn:

• have not won against Ilves in their last 3 league matches.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 4 league matches at home.

Ilves

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to SJK in Veikkausliiga competition, Ilves and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

Jaime Moreno (34') scored for SJK.

The stats don’t lie, and Ilves have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 11 goals overall. In defence, Ilves have seen their frailties exposed. That pattern might not follow through into this match, though.

Ahead of this clash, Ilves haven't been beaten by IFK Mariehamn when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 15/05/2022 shows us that IFK Mariehamn have won 1 of these and Ilves 3, with the number of drawn matches being 2.

A total of 17 goals were scored between them in this period, with 6 of them for Grönvitt and 11 coming from Ipa. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The previous league game featuring these sides was Veikkausliiga match day 3 on 27/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Ilves 2-1 IFK Mariehamn.

In that game, Ilves managed 52% possession and 9 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Goals were scored by Djair Parfitt-Williams (18') and Santeri Haarala (85').

On the other side, IFK Mariehamn had 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. Mikko Sumusalo (26') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Antti Munukka.

📰 Team News: IFK Mariehamn

The IFK Mariehamn manager Bruno Romão has a full complement, with no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this clash thanks to a fully healthy squad to pick from.

🗞️ Team News: Ilves

Due to a fully injury-free group available to choose from, the Ilves boss Joonas Rantanen doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report coming into this match.

💭 Prediction

In our opinion, IFK Mariehamn might well have a job on their hands to see themselves scoring against this Ilves side who we think should get a goal themselves and run out victorious.

We therefore fancy a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 win for Ilves after 90 minutes.

Should be an interesting one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 15:03 28/04/2024