Tag Archive | "Lahti"

The ’strictly one manager per club’ Veikkausliiga preview

Sunday, August 2, 2009

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VPS v Lahti, Sunday 6:30pmLahti 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 turn [...]

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Veikkausliiga Round 16: Dead men walking fight to stalemate in Töölö

Monday, July 27, 2009

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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 [...]

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HJK keep noses in front in Veikkausliiga race

Monday, July 20, 2009

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HJK keep noses in front in Veikkausliiga race

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 [...]

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Veikkausliiga Round seven preview, part one

Saturday, May 16, 2009

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Tampere United v FC Honka, Sunday 6:30pmTampere United have all the finesse, skill, confidence and panache of a bag of used cat litter right now. Their 1-0 loss to Haka was not an awful performance, but their goalkeeper messes up big time and they lost. he’s a young lad and should be replaced, but now [...]

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Veikkausliiga Round Four Preview part 3

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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HJK v IFK Mariehamn, Wednesday 6:30pmThis is, somewhat surprisingly, a top of the table clash. IFK have already beaten last season’s champions, drawn with one of the favourites for this season, and had a regulation win over wooden spoon-chasers KuPS. This puts them level on points with HJK, who dropped their two points at home [...]

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The Sedu Koskinen show

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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FC Haka 1 HJK 2HighlightsMyPa 4 Tampere United 1HighlightsInter Turku 1 FF Jaro 0HighlightsIFK Mariehman 3 KuPS 0HighlightsFC Lahti 4 RoPS 1HighlightsThe all new Tehttaan kenttä is quite an experience. It was all a bit much for me, and I arrived too late to actually describe much of what went on, so for now the [...]

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Veikkausliiga Round One: Champions Inter beaten, Litmanen plays, HJK win and TPS lose to surprisingly decent Haka

Monday, April 20, 2009

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IFK Mariehamn 2 Inter Turku 0The first round of Veikkausliiga threw up a few surprising results, but arguably the biggest shock was Inter Turku’s 2-0 defeat in Mariehamn. The manner of defeat was more surprising than the result, as Iner’s manager Job Dragtsma pointed out afterwards.“We started playing their game, long ball, not our own [...]

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Veikkausliiga 2009 round one: The Harkimo-Håkans appreciation preview

Friday, April 17, 2009

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As this opening round of Veikkausliiga has been decimated by pitch related postponements, this preview is dedicated to the two men who have actually done quite a lot to get playable pitches in Finland. Harkimo was instrumental in the construction of Finnair Stadium in Töölö, before selling his stake in the ground andwinding up Jokerit’s [...]

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Great throw-ins of our time

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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Finland’s women played Iceland tonight, and managed to get another draw to go with the one they secured on Sunday. It was 0-0 tonight, and 1-1 on Sunday. This is a vast improvement on the 3-0 defeat that gave Finland a last-place finish in this year’s Algarve Cup, but they still have some way to [...]

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