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Veikkausliiga round 8 preview
The Finnish league has made it all the way to the 8th round, which makes us here at the NFN Ivory Tower quite ready and willing to single out some teams for harsh criticism. We could also carve out the positives out of some teams’ performances, but who wants to read good news anyway?
Continue reading...Jaro sign manager’s son
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Alexei Eremenko Jr has signed for FF Jaro on loan from his fantastically named Ukrainian club, Metalist Kharkiv. The 26 year old, who can play as an attacking midfielder or forward but has most often been seen sitting on the bench in recent years, will spend the whole season at the Jakobstad club according to [...]
Continue reading...HJK find form at the most crucial stage
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The title race took a dramatic twist on Sunday as FF Jaro ended TPS’s run of fifteen games without defeat with a 1-0 victory in Pietarsaari, while HJK and FC Honka recorded 2-0 home victories against VPS and Haka respectively. With four rounds to go, HJK may just have gained enough distance on their biggest [...]
Continue reading...The segmented Veikkausliiga preview
Sunday, September 20, 2009
With Autumn drawing in, Veikkausliiga is sorting itself into distinct sections going into the closing stages of the season. The top two are matching each other blow for blow in the fight for the championship, the next group of five are dropping points and beating each other as nobody really cements their hold on third [...]
Continue reading...Brown returns, Tepsi expects: the ‘maybe Finnish football isn’t totally rubbish’ preview
Friday, August 21, 2009
Friday The weekend kicks off tonight, with Alexei Eremenko senior’s first game in charge of FF Jaro. The former JBK coach takes the reigns from Mika Laurikainen, who seemed bewildered that he got the sack after the team’s form collapsed following the announcement of his departure at season’s end. Jaro felt they might as well [...]
Continue reading...Haka’s winter of the long knives stretches on past summer
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Haka 2 (Ikävalko 27, Ristilä 76) JJK 4 (Viljanen og 45, Nam 70 and 74, Sund 89) Attendance: 2,028 Haka’s wretched form continued at Tehttaan Kenttä today with a dismal 4-2 defeat to JJK. Having lost three of their last four games, the Valkeakoski side are in danger of slipping out of contention for the [...]
Continue reading...The ‘strictly one manager per club’ Veikkausliiga preview
Sunday, August 2, 2009
VPS v Lahti, Sunday 6:30pm Lahti are fresh from their exploits in Brugge, where they lost in a hopeful, promising, away-goals-scoring kind of a way. The other Finnish teams in Europe have been uniformly rubbish, so Finnish perceptions of the level of domestic football largely hang on the ability of Jari Litmanen and co to [...]
Continue reading...The title race starts here: a tantalising two weeks of Veikkausliiga football ahead
Friday, July 31, 2009
Perhaps HJK felt lonely in their ivory tower on top of the Veikkausliiga table a couple of weeks ago, and consequently decided to drop some points in order to make friends with the other top teams. It is understandable, it can be lonely up there, but HJK’s yearning for company could come at a high [...]
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga Round 16: Dead men walking fight to stalemate in Töölö
Monday, July 27, 2009
The build up to today’s ‘classico’ was dominated by HJK’s elimination from Europe after a 3-1 defeat at home to Vetra, from Lithuania. Before Thursday night, no Lithuanian team had ever won a knockout tie in Europe after playing and losing the first leg at home. HJK fans were already planning their trips to London [...]
Continue reading...Sunday’s Veikkausliiga preview
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Unlike we predicted, Inter took a 1-0 away win at Jaro thanks to a late goal from Joni Kauko. Accidents happen when you combine Egan, a laptop and an internet connection, but we are stupid enough to keep on previewing even if we are not necessarily on the winning side any more. All games start [...]
Continue reading...HJK keep noses in front in Veikkausliiga race
Monday, July 20, 2009
Pasi Rautiainen is one of the funniest men in Veikkausliiga, and after 7,319 people filled Kupittaa Stadium today for Tepsi’s crucial clash with HJK he was in the mood to entertain. TPS had clawed back a point through Mika Ääritalo in the 86th minute after Chris Cleaver had earlier put through his own goal to [...]
Continue reading...Haka – TPS preview
Monday, July 13, 2009
Haka (2nd) – TPS (3rd), Monday 7 PM Live on Urheilukanava and streams PREVIEW: This week and the next are of definitive nature as far as the title race is concerned. TPS will play both Haka and table-topping HJK this week, and two wins could see them occupy the driving seat. Two draws would leave [...]
Continue reading...Road to Töölö: Suomen Cup sixth round preview
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The preview of the sxth round should take many forms, the first one being a homage to Pasi Rautiainen. This Monday’s match between Honka and TPS in Tapiola turned into something of a media event, with most of the Finnish under-21 squad presented with roses for their achievement in failing to win a single game [...]
Continue reading...Haka and HJK pull clear, Tamperelaiset get rained on
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Watching Tampere United struggle to a single goal victory over JJK at Ratina yesterday, it occurred to me just how astonishing it is that anyone watches Finnish football. The first half was enjoyably predictable, as TamU attacked and JJk attempted to string a few passes together. JJK’s South Korean striker Nam was brought off injured, [...]
Continue reading...The Veikkausliiga roundup that loves a five goal thriller
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Inter are not the luckiest team in Veikkausliiga, it has to be said. After losing Patrick Bantamoi to a red card in Sunday’s 2-0 defeat to HJK at Pallokenttä (HJK’s usual Töölö home having it’s new grass rested for the Euro 2009 championships in late August), their second goalkeeper David Monsalve was sent off in [...]
Continue reading...Sunday’s Veikkausliiga preview
Sunday, June 28, 2009
TPS won MYPA 3-1 and Lahti took a 2-1 win over Tampere United. The latter meant that my prediction accuracy fell from 100% to 50% compared to Wednesday’s round of games, and I’m too disillusioned to round the games up in any more depth now. I will round them up later, however, once the whole [...]
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