In a mid week match in week 21, on Monday Sep 5th, HJK will play host to HIFK in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Veikkausliiga teams in the anticipated Helsinki derby. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 13 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. 2nd placed HJK is fresh off their 1-0 shutout win against SJK. Anthony Olusanya struck first for HJK in the 19th minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring In the end, SJK couldn’t muster any offence and HJK ran away with the shutout win. HJK should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 18 points in their last 10 matches, while hIFK is fresh off their 1-1 draw against VPS. Michael Bakare struck first for HIFK in the 8th minute, then in the 73rd minute, Multanen sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Jesper Engstrom squeezing out at least the one point for VPS. HIFK looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 6 points in their last 10 matches.
On the 28th of April, HIFK hosted HJK at the Bolt Arena in their last match together. HJK took the match by a score of 2 to 0 in front of a crowd of just over seven thousand spectators. Miro Tenho struck first for HJK in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time, then Bojan Radulovic Samoukovic added another in the 70th minute on a feed from Murilo In the end, HIFK couldn’t muster any offence and HJK ran away with the shutout win. HJK’s most prolific scorer has been Anthony Olusanya. The attacker has netted 2 goals over the last 5 matches.