Finnish Football | Veikkausliiga | 26.06.17

Here we go again! The holiday is over and it is time for football! Very little rest for the wicked. It is raining a lot. A nice weather for the game!

26.06.2017 (UTC +3)

Only two games today. RoPS will face Ilves at home and SJK will host PS Kemi. All the teams except PS Kemi played on 22th of June and had a very little rest. PS Kemi had one day more.

RoPS - Ilves | 18.30

RoPS wants to win. The question is if the good spirit is enough but at least the squad should be pretty healthy. Aapo Heikkilä is the only long term injury right now and Lassi Järvenpää is also in doubt as he got substituted in the last game due a small injury.

Ilves has returned to gaining points and is doing quite well at the moment. The defensive striker Tuco is in a very good form right now and has scored 7 goals in 13 games. That is only the goals, as he has contributed a lot to the other areas of the game as well, like he likes to do. Just don't ask him to do a header :)

The game will most propably be a tight one. RoPS attack is very young but they have experience in the midfield in a form of Antti Okkonen and Eetu Muinonen and in the defence as the newcomers Ivan Tatomirović and David Addy joined in at the start of the season. Ilves has to keep the formation together and tight to play against that. RoPS is also very prone to mistakes and that is a great advantage for the away side.

The last visits of Ilves to Rovaniemi resulted to:

18.06.16 RoPS Ilves 1 : 0
22.08.15 RoPS Ilves 0 : 0
22.06.15 RoPS Ilves 4 : 1

SJK - PS Kemi | 19.30

Not much to say about this one. The bookers have got the odds totally wrong, offering a good bet for the away team. PS Kemi is in good form and the same cannot be said about the home side. The same old shitty road for them, just a different coach.

Mehmet Hetemaj will return for the home side after serving a suspension and that will help them a lot. It will be seen if that is enough to beat the on-form attacking midfielder Filip Valenčič of PS Kemi as he might just show some magic again today. 7 goals in 13 games!

The recent form of the teams:

(02.) PS Kemi | 5 3 2 0 11:4 11 | DWWDW
(11.) SJK | 5 1 0 4 2:11 3 | LLWLL

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Veikkausliiga 26.06.17

Finnish Football | Veikkausliiga | 26.06.17

26.06.2017 (UTC +3)

RoPS - Ilves | 18.30

SJK - PS Kemi | 19.30