Week 14 brings us a match on Jul 16th, where VPS will travel to Helsinki to battle HJK in a meeting of these two Veikkausliiga teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 16 degrees, a perfect day for football. HJK sits at 2nd place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-2 loss against Rīgas FS. Arturs Zjuzins struck first for Rīgas FS in the 48th minute on a feed from Baiano, then Stefan Panic added another in the 56th minute on a feed from Petr Mares. HJK is looking for direction having 4 win and 2 losses in their last 10 matches, while vPS is fresh off their 1-3 loss against Mariehamn. Carvalho da Silva struck first for Mariehamn in the 26th minute on a feed from Joakim Latonen, then in the 51st minute, Sillah sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Pahkasalo. VPS is looking for direction having 4 win and 6 losses in their last 10 matches.
HJK and VPS last played eachother at the Elisa Stadion on Mon Apr 18th. HJK was victorious by a score of 1 to 0. Atomu Tanaka scored the first goal for HJK in the 79th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed VPS couldn’t manage to score, and HJK took the shutout win.
VPS is fortunate enough to have Kalle Multanen in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored 4 goals. HJK is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Santeri Hostikka and Bojan Radulovic Samoukovic each only have 1 goal in their last 5.