📊 Form Guide

Ilves

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Ilves will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 1-3 Veikkausliiga loss in their previous game against FC Inter Turku.

The only player to score from Ilves was Goudouss Bamba (18'). Julius Tauriainen (2', 28') and Jasse Tuominen (58') scored for FC Inter Turku.

Ilves haven’t had any problems with scoring, netting in each and every one of their last 6 games.

They’ve claimed a sum of 9 during that period while also conceding a total of 10.

Heading into this contest, Ilves haven't been beaten in the league by IF Gnistan in their previous 5 matches.

IF Gnistan

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IF Gnistan will come into the clash after a 5-0 Veikkausliiga win with the downing of FF Jaro in their last fixture.

For IF Gnistan, goals were scored by Adeleke Akinyemi (43', 54'), Edmund Arko-Mensah (49'), Pakwo Rachide Gnanou (61') and Joakim Latonen (87').

Jussi Leppälahti's IF Gnistan have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 9 times throughout their most recent 6 matches. The overall goals that they have conceded during that same period adds up to 6.

Analysis of their past results shows that IF Gnistan:

• have not registered a win against Ilves when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 away league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 6 league matches.

👥 Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 13/04/2024 shows us that Ilves have won 3 of them & IF Gnistan 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 27 in all which averages out at 4.5 goals per match.

ℹ️ Team News: IF Gnistan

Owing to an otherwise available group of players, there is just the sole fitness issue for the IF Gnistan manager Jussi Leppälahti to contend with. Evgeniy Bashkirov (Knee surgery) won’t be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Ilves are likely to see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

However, IF Gnistan may well find it hard to make a breakthrough but do we see them pulling one back during this clash, too.

Therefore, we are anticipating a comfortable 3-1 winning score for Ilves at the end of the match.

Andre Moura, 03:06 23/05/2026