Ilves Tampere VS Lahti

Ilves welcome visitors from Lahti at Ratina Stadion for this Relegation Group in Tampere Sunday evening Beijing time. This is the second-last round of my home country’s first tier, Veikkausliiga. which is not of great level by European standards. There is not much at stake here as Ilves currently occupy the 10th place in the standings with 28 points to their account. They will very probably finish in this place as well. They are safe from relegation but without any hope of achieving anything this season. Their goal difference is pretty decent though - 40:43. Lahti, on other, are in the, are in 11th and will face TPS Turku, the who will place in the 2nd place in Ykkönen the 2nd tier, in the fight for a place in Veikkausliiga next season. They have grabbed just 18 points so far and have a horribly bad score difference of 20:53. Their season, even after with the new coach who took over a few months ago, has been massive disappointment and it is hard to write anything positive about them now. Ilves have a very young and inexperienced for this level team but certainly everyone, me included, expected more from the this season. Even so, I am pretty sure they have much more motivation than the weak visitors here in front of their loyal home fans. They have a clearly over 60% chance of taking all three points here!

There is quite a big difference in current level of football between the teams - in my view even bigger than the 10 points’ difference in the standings would reflect.. It looks like Lahti have already given up and many players clearly just wait for the winter holidays to finally begin.. Indeed, they have lost six of their latest matches taking one draw and have been abysmal in many of these matches. In their most recent match, they were pretty okay though and seemed pretty motivated but still were not able to grab even a point losing 1-2 away from home in the hands of AC Oulu. Before this they were very weak at home and recorded just one shot on VPS’s goal in a 0-2 defeat. Moreover, in the 18th of last month IFK Mariehamn, not a very strong team, humiliated them 6-0 in Åland. This heavy loss tells a lot of Lahti’s weak morale! Ilves, are not on great form either but the team fights hard and are much better than Lahti especially defensively. They would have deserved at least a draw in their most recent match at home but IFK Mariehamn very the luckier and more efficient team and stole all three points though a 3-2 away win despite Ilves recording more ball possession, shots on target, goal attempts, attacks and dangerous attacks. Before this they easily swept past HIFK in Helsinki - 1-5 was the final score. HIFK are a very bad team, but Ilves were still good in this match!

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北京时间周日晚上，在坦佩雷的拉蒂纳球场，伊尔维斯迎来了来自拉赫蒂的访客。这是我祖国甲级联赛Veikkausliiga的倒数第二轮比赛。按照欧洲标准，这一水平并不高。这里没有太多的利害关系，因为伊尔维斯目前在积分榜上以28分排名第10。他们很可能也会在这里结束。他们保级了，但本赛季没有任何成就的希望。尽管如此，他们的净胜球还是相当不错的——40:43。另一方面，拉赫蒂排在第11位，他们将面对图尔库TPS，后者将在Ykkönen第二梯队中排名第二，他们将在下赛季的维考斯里加争夺一个席位。到目前为止，他们只拿到了18分，比分相差20:53。他们的这个赛季，即使是在几个月前新教练上任之后，仍然是巨大的失望，现在很难写任何关于他们的积极的东西。对于这个级别的球队来说，我拥有一支非常年轻和缺乏经验的队伍，但当然每个人，包括我在内，都对这个赛季有更高的期望。即便如此，我敢肯定在他们忠实的主场球迷面前，他们比弱小的客队更有动力。他们有明显超过60%的机会拿到这三分!

两支球队在目前的足球水平上有很大的差距，在我看来甚至比10分的积分榜差距更大。看起来拉赫蒂已经放弃了，很多球员显然只是在等待寒假的最终开始。事实上，他们在最近的比赛中输了六场，只取得了一场平局，而且在很多比赛中表现糟糕。在他们最近的一场比赛中，他们表现得很好，看起来也很有动力，但在客场1-2输给AC奥卢的情况下，他们仍然没能拿到一分。在此之前，他们在主场的表现非常弱，在那场0:2的失利中，他们只打进了一球。此外，上个月18日，IFK Mariehamn，一支不是很强大的球队，在Åland以6-0击败了他们。这场惨重的损失充分说明了拉赫蒂的士气涣散!伊尔维斯的状态也不是很好，但是球队打得很努力，特别是防守上比拉赫蒂好得多。在最近的一场主场比赛中，他们本应该至少取得一场平局，但IFK Mariehamn非常幸运，也更有效率，在客场3-2取胜的情况下偷走了全部三分，尽管伊尔维斯记录了更多的控球率、射正次数、射门次数、进攻和危险进攻。在此之前，他们轻松击败了赫尔辛基的HIFK，最终比分是1比5。HIFK是一支非常糟糕的球队，但是Ilves在这场比赛中仍然很好!