Lahti vs HJK predictions and betting tips on June 7, 2023
Ileana Sanchez
Dailysports's expert
On June 7, Lahden Stadion (Lahti) will host the match of the 10th round of the Veikkausliiga, in which Lahti will compete with HJK. The battle will start at 17:00 CET.
Lahti
The team plays well only in the Liiga Cup – it won this trophy three times in the interval of 2007-2016. Speaking about the championship, “the Mustat kuhnurit” achieved the 3rd place only a couple of times. The previous season brought the penultimate, 11th place. Moreover, it even had to overcome the play-offs against TPS. There were a lot of troubles, but still the team ensured the preservation of the so-called “registration”: a 2-1 success at the home arena and an away 1-1 draw. Moreover, the winning goal was scored in the 91st minute of the game. Nevertheless, if it tried to learn a lesson from the higher mentioned event, it was unsuccessful. The start turned out to be quite good: 3 matches without a defeat and even a victory in the battle against Mariehamn. Then Lahti began to lose a lot and, as a result, moved lower in the standings. It is also reasonable to mention that the match with Ilves, which was being lost with a 0-2 score, ended in a draw.
HJK
The club is a symbol of football in Finland. It even took part in the group stage of the Champions League, even if it happened only once, back in 1998. Then it repeated the same way in the Europa League, where, among other things, the team got into the quartet with Betis, Roma and Ludogorets in the autumn – to be honest, there is no surprise that everything ended in the 4th place. At the same time, “the Klubi” got the national gold for the 32nd time in 2022. Nowadays, frankly speaking, Tony Koskela’s wards demonstrate far-from-the-best performance. A confident start with 4 wins and a draw in the battle against Oulu in 5 rounds was followed by a clear slow-down – first, the team lost to KuPS and then it began to end the fights in draws (moreover, the battles against Mariehamn and SJK resulted in 0-0 equalities) – thus, the leadership in the table was stopped.
The statistics of head-to-head matches
The last time Lahti won was in 2019. After that, it mostly manages to take the draws, as it was a year ago, in May 2022.
Predictions
Bookmakers believe that HJK will win in a pretty easy way. Still, it is necessary to score for the higher mentioned result, which is, to be honest, hard for the giant. Let’s choose the bet on “total: under 2.5” (odd: 1.909).
