Mariehamn take on the visitors HJK in the round 11 match of Finnish Veikkausliiga. The match will be played on Wednesday, June 22nd at Wiklöf Holding Arena (Mariehamn).
Mariehamn are located on the Åland Islands - not a close place even by Finnish standards. At the same time, the “green-whites” were even able to win the Veikkausliiga in 2016. Before that, the managed to win the cup, and in 2019 again reached the final. True, in recent years there have been frankly weak results in the championship. The season before last, they managed to finish in 9th place, in 2021 they got dropped by 1 position. And for now, there is a serious risk that the trend of regression will continue. Mariehamn frankly failed the start of the season. More precisely, just the staring rounds were quite good: 3 draws and even a victory over Oulu. But after that, only 1 draw was taken with an abundance of defeats. As a result, the team rolled back to the bottom of the standings. Worse results were only for HIFK, which does look superfluous in the Veikkausliiga.” in June, after a pause for the matches of the national teams, the hosts also lost to Haka, 2-3.
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HJK hold the record for the most league titles, including triumph last season. That trophy was 2nd in a row and 4th in the last 5 draws, and one of the most difficult. The whole season had to fight with "KuPS", and even after the champion group round the gap was only 1 point. By the way, now history is repeating itself: there is a dispute with the “canaries” again. It was not possible to beat the opponent at home, the match in June ended 0-0. Also, the wards of Toni Koskela have already managed to lose, more like: they got 1-4 in Turku from Inter. And we lost points against Lahti on the road, limiting themselves to 0-0. Obviously, the number of such mistakes should be kept to a minimum. Yes, there are still a lot of matches ahead. But in the conditions of the Veikkausliga, every failure in the end may well become fatal. Moreover, in the last round they did not take advantage of the competitor's misfire, unexpectedly losing at home to Oulu.
Of course, HJK dominated in head-to-head matches, who have not lost since 2015, usually defeating the opponent. But in February of this year, Mariehamn unexpectedly took 3-2 win in the cup. Bookmakers see no intrigue here. HJK was obviously brought back to the ground by the defeat in the last round, and it will come out as focused as possible. We bet on the victory of the visitors with negative handicap.
Prediction for the match: HJK to win with -1.0 handicap.
