In the Veikkausliiga football league, the jumbo final was played on Friday evening, where FC Lahti secured a 4–0 victory over EIF.
Five consecutive defeats with a total of 2–21 goals. Ekenäs IF, a rising club in the football league, has started to cope with the demands of the highest domestic league level after a reasonably good first season. Unless the course turns and soon, there will be no league ball kicked in Raasepor’s Tammisaari next season.
Friday’s only league fight was a real jumbo final. FC Lahti, who played their third consecutive undefeated match, humiliated Tammisaari by a dull score of 4–0 (2–0), of which the last two goals did not come until the last minutes. Lahti and IFK Mariehamn are four points ahead of EIF.
Michael Lopez completed the winning goal in the sixth minute of the game and the sealing goal in the 91st minute. Thanks to his ninth hit of the season, the Argentinian moved only one goal away from the top spot in the goalscoring market.
FC Lahti played their sixth match of the season with a goal against Lahti Renkomäki Osku Maukonen17, who got the blocking responsibility in practice due to the club’s injury concerns.
– It was strange to wait when the playing time didn’t really come. Last season’s (three matches) league experience came as a bit of a surprise. Today we countered well. It was important to keep the lead in the second period with two goals, said the 184-centimeter Maukonen, who is in his second year at Lahti Lyceum.
Maukonen had a lot to do with keeping the lead. He managed the two best saves of the second half in a row, almost at the risk of his life, having to be patched up after them.
– He bumped his shoulder, but he’s been hit by it before. There have been good saves in recent games and the team has also saved bad chances, emphasized Maukonen, who experienced only one defeat in his six league matches of the season.
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