Borchers hat-trick, rated 10, sinks ten-man Gnistan as HJK win 4-0
Mads Borchers scored three after the break and earned a match rating of 10, while Otso Virtanen made six saves for IF Gnistan, who played the last 40 minutes or so a man down.
4–0
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Veikkausliiga
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4–0
Jaro and Mariehamn meet level on goal difference, split by two points
Eleventh hosts twelfth, and both sides have scored 21 and conceded 48. Jaro have taken 0.8 points a match over their last 10, Mariehamn 1.4.
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Lahti's chance-creation meets Turun Palloseura's leaky xG column
Seventh-placed FC Lahti host ninth-placed Turun Palloseura, four points ahead in the table. The sides drew 0-0 in June, and the market and our model both make the hosts favourites.
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Ilves host SJK with four of the last five meetings drawn
Eighth meets tenth in Tampere, and these sides have split the points so often that 11 of their 35 meetings have ended level. SJK have drawn nine of their 26 league games this season.
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FC Lahti score four unanswered goals to beat Turun Palloseura 5-1
Otso Koskinen and Amir Belabid scored twice each after Turun Palloseura took an early lead. Lahti had 27 shots to the visitors' eight, and goalkeeper Dan Lauri made nine saves.
5–1
Borchers scores twice as HJK edge seven-goal thriller at AC Oulu
Mads Borchers earned a match rating of 9.5 as HJK won 4-3, with Veteli's goal in the 86th minute settling it two minutes after AC Oulu had pulled level from two goals down.
3–4
SJK host Lahti with 12 points between them but almost no gap in the win probabilities
Fifth-placed Lahti arrive on a three-match winning run against a tenth-placed SJK side with five wins all season. The betting market and our model both see a near three-way split.
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Leaders Kuopion Palloseura host AC Oulu, a side that has lost six of its last ten
KuPS top the Veikkausliiga on 48 points and have won 14 of 17 meetings with AC Oulu. The visitors arrive eighth, though, and Oulu won the most recent meeting 2-0 on 2 May.
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Santos and Oulu hold out Kuopio's 17 shots to win 1-0 in Veikkausliiga
Kuopion Palloseura out-shot AC Oulu by 17 to seven and led the estimated expected goals, yet Triana's 28th-minute goal was enough for the visitors. Goalkeeper Miguel Santos made four saves.
0–1
HJK's third place meets a VPS side that has lost seven of its last ten
The hosts sit six points clear of sixth-placed VPS and have won 31 of 48 meetings. The visitors took one of the last two meetings at their own ground, though, and the table is closer than their recent results suggest.
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Mads Borchers hits a hat-trick as HJK crush VPS 6-0
Borchers earned a match rating of 10 and HJK led 3-0 at the break. VPS managed one shot on target all game, against 10 for the hosts.
6–0
Gnistan host second-placed Inter Turku after winning both meetings this season
Fourth plays second in Helsinki, seven points apart. Inter Turku have the tighter defence, but Gnistan have lost only one of their last ten league matches.
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