Veikkausliiga’s jumbo Ekenes IF ended the match against leader HJK in the Finnish Cup with penalty kicks.
EIF left HJK scoreless and advanced to the top eight in the football Suomen Cup on Wednesday. HJK had won their previous four matches with a goal difference of 16–2.
In the battle of the sixth round of the cup, there were no goals in the game time on Tammisaari’s central field, and Mittelö did not rise to the ranks of the great players in terms of play.
The full 90 minutes were played in the heat without success. In the penalty shootout, EIF was better 4–2. They hit the home team in spots Stanislav Efimov, Solomon Ojala, Simon Lindholm and Kalle Katz. From HJK, they waved the goal net Liam Moller and Diogo Tomas.
– We weren’t as dangerous as we should have been, and we weren’t able to create enough of a threat. Our playing was too slow and not active enough. We should have learned from the Oulu match at the end of May. I thought we had already done that. However, now we took a bit of a backseat, commented Toni Korkeakunnas In an interview with HJK TV.
The draws for the quarterfinals of the Finnish Cup are on Thursday, June 27, from 11 a.m. In addition to EIF, AC Oulu, FC Haka, FC Inter, KuPS, SJK, TPS and KPV advanced to the group of eight.
You can follow the draw On the Football Association’s YouTube channel.