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Steffen Schmidt - July 5, 2023
KTP vs Ilves
Finnish Veikkausliiga
Date: 8 July 2023, Saturday
Kick-off at 15:00 UK / 16:00 CET
Venue: Arto Tolsa Areena (Kotka).
KTP and Ilves return to the league duties following their respective Finnish Cup matches in midweek as they take on each other on Saturday afternoon in Gameweek 15 of Veikkausliiga.
This is a big match for both outfits who sit right next to each other in the league table, just on the brink of the top-half finish.
As you know, the top six teams after 22 rounds of the competition continue the league in the Championship round.
KTP and Ilves are 7th and 8th respectively at the moment, sitting within the striking distance of 6th-placed Inter Turku.
The hosts, who have earned promotion from the second class football last year, enter this tie in higher spirits.
They have kept back-to-back clean sheets in the games against Lahti and Mariehamn in the previous two rounds, claiming four points along the way.
Ilves are winless in five subsequent games in the league. However, they offered a strong performance in a 1-1 stalemate against third-placed SJK seven days ago, despite playing the last 20 minutes of the game with ten men on the pitch on the occasion.
Toni Kalilo’s men have won only one of six away fixtures in the league this year, bagging no more than five goals in the process.
Knowing about the importance of the affair and the team’s recent displays, we have to go for the Under 2.5 goals FT pick as the main betting option at the odds of 1.85.
KTP kept two subsequent clean sheets in the league while Ilves have a goal difference of 5-6 in 6 away outings this season. The braver tipsters can shoot for the goalless draw as the correct score prediction at the sky-high 10.00 odds.
