Both KuPS and HJK fell to the red cards in their matches.
17:13 • Updated 9:30 PM
Honka came, showed and won, first dazzlingly attacking and then concretely defending on a rainy Saturday. KuPS, who is struggling hardest with HJK in this round, was surprised in Espoo when Honka hit it 2–0. At the same time, the record-breaking 31st consecutive loss-free league game for the people of Kuopio ended.
– KuPS was the first to force us to defend deep for long periods of time, Hongan Duarte Tammilehto acknowledged.
– We created places, we were efficient. We also controlled the defending action. They had control of the ball, we had the whole game, Tammilehto continued.
Honka hit extremely effectively, just a quarter, and it led Agon Sadikun with assault paint and the one following the corner kick Rui Modeston with a rear corner placement.
The Savola players recovered quickly from the initial shock collision, but the home team was able to defend on a slippery and fast field.
KuPS created a couple of great reduction plots, but Honga’s lines didn’t tear, and rescues were made no later than Maxim Rudakov finish line.
In the second period, KuPS applied at risk. The crowd of 1,058 spectators watched the match first Edmund Arko-Mensah and then Sadiku were successful in increasing the lead to three goals.
– They scored, then we chased them. Today just wasn’t our day. Sometimes this happens, KuPS coach Simo Valakari summed up almost a three-week match break to a loss.
AC Oulu grabbed victory in Töölö, Helsinki – HJK’s Radulovic fooled out
The Helsinki Football Club had the opportunity to take advantage of KuPS’s stumbling block and move to the top of the domestic league alone. However, Serjanelonen AC Oulu took the full three points from Töölö Football Stadium Michael Lopezin with a penalty shot from 1 to 0.
The downside of the home team began about twenty minutes before the end, making the substitution Bojan Radulovic took a yellow card by kicking the ball after the whistle.
A couple of minutes later, the same man tore a corner kick in the aftermath Fabian Serrarensin to the surface of the grass, resulting in a red card and a penalty kick from which Lopez made no mistake.
– I have never barked at any judge in public before. This was bad from start to finish, HJK’s coach Toni Koskela was enchanted.
– It was Radulovic’s Passage first. And then the comma was completely incomprehensible. I didn’t even bother to say what the Oulu player said – that give me a card, Koskela especially treated the attacker Radulovic.
HJK has played one match more than KuPS and two matches more than Honka, who continues in third.
In the other games of the early evening, it seemed that Ilves would have defeated FC Lahti to replace his goalkeeper, but the Lahti players evened out the 1-1 final. Macoumba Kandjin At 11 meters. However, Ilves irritated himself with his own extra time goal to a 3–2 victory when Petrus Pennanen struck each other in the evening in the 96th minute.
Seinäjoki Football Club and FC Inter ended the 1–1 points division in Southern Ostrobothnia. In the afternoon of Valkeakoski, Haka took the goal show against IFK Mariehamn 3–2.
In Töölö, attention was also drawn to the events in the field, as concerts were held at the same time on the adjacent plots in both the ice rink and the Olympic Stadium.
The football stadium had a HIFK-VPS League match later in the evening from 11pm, anticipating that it could be HIFK’s last home game for a long time at the main league level.
– Big loss if Derby misses. For supporters, clubs as well as Finnish football, HJK’s Koskela apricots.
Updated 6/18/2022 at 7:26 PM: Added results for other matches on Saturday. Changed the main picture of the story.
Updated at 9:30 p.m. Added comments by Toni Koskela.