On just two days of rest, Lawrence Smith and VPS return to action when they square off against FC Inter on Wednesday evening at Hietalahti Stadium in Vaasa. Click to continue reading...

Last night, a great night from brand new KuPS signing Dickson Nwakaeme helped KuPS to a 3-0 win over RoPS, while TamU did exactly what was needed and overcame JJK with the scoreline 1-0. A more detailed round-up is on the way once the round is completed, but for now we are taking a look at today's games

FC Inter (7th) FC Lahti (9th), Sunday 6:30 PM

As the league table indicates, both sides are underperforming.

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A match between two skillful, attacking-minded teams was always going to be entertaining and Inter and Honka lived up to their expectations. It was a very good game from both teams, and neither side really deserved to lose. Honka did lose in the end, and will not look back at their early season very positively.

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FC Inter - FC Honka
Turku, 7 PM
Live on Urheilukanava and streams

The two teams are quite similar in terms of their flowing movement with short passes, and are thus able to make this an entertaining fixture. The teams are four and six points from top respectively, and both are in need of a win tonight if they want to be on the cutting edge as far as the title race is concerned.

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Tune in at 6 PM (GMT +2) for a last-minute preview and a minute-by-minute live blog of Saturday's Veikkausliiga top 2 clash between FC Inter Turku and Haka.

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Neither of these two teams were expected to be anything more than outside candidates with regards to the title race, but top 2 they are six rounds into the campaign.

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TORONTO - This years 4th season of the MSC League already is shaping up to be the best season ever, and shows great promise for 2010 and following years.
Having been able to grow and solidify 18 teams through expansion, the league looks stronger than ever and poised for a a solid 2010 year, where it may be able to feature a two-tiered league based on this years standings, whereby the bottom 3 of teams in the first division in 2010 get relegated to the 2nd division, and the top 3 teams of division 2 get promoted. Click to continue reading...

The second round of games, similarly to the first, shrank a bit because newly promoted JJK joined the already too long list of teams who had to cancel their opening fixture. VPS and Haka kicked off the round yesterday, with the latter snapping a 1-0 away win thanks to a goal from Pietari Holopainen.

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The second round of games, similarly to the first, shrank a bit because newly promoted JJK joined the already too long list of teams who had to cancel their opening fixture. VPS and Haka kicked off the round yesterday, with the latter snapping a 1-0 away win thanks to a goal from Pietari Holopainen.

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Inter have signed Argentinian defender Claudio Verino (25 years), Mexican midfielder Alberto Ramirez (23) and Finnish international Ari Nyman (25). With the three new signings, the reigning champions are now ready just three weeks before the start of the new Veikkausliiga campaign. -The team is now complete with three keepers and 22 outfield players, but we [. Click to continue reading...

Inter have signed 25 year old Argentinian defender Claudio Verino, Mexican midfielder Alberto Ramirez (23), and Finnish international Ari Nyman (25). With the three new signings, the reigning champions have a full squad just three weeks before the start of the new Veikkausliiga campaign. "The team is now complete with three keepers and 22 outfield players, [. Click to continue reading...

TamU beat Honka 4-3 in an entertaining game that saw TamU stir up the title race once again. A few weeks ago they got a home win against Inter and now the other title candidate was treated to a defeat at their hands. FC Lahti - IFK Mariehamn A win would guarantee IFK Mariehamn a place in [...] Click to continue reading...

Yle started their Veikkausliiga broadcasts today as FF Jaro played FC Lahti. The system in Finland is quite interesting: Urheilukanava broadcast the games from April to September, and Yle are only interested when the title is about to be won. The move from Urheilukanava to Yle may raise the number of people watching, as Urheilukanava is [. Click to continue reading...

The respective U21 sides of Finland and Sweden had nothing between them as their friendly match in Turku drew to a close, and the result - one goal for each - reflected the proceedings quite well. The hosts started the game well, with Tomi Petrescu, Perparim Hetemaj, Berat Sadik and Tim Sparv all causing trouble to [. Click to continue reading...

Ilkka Mäkelä had hoped for 5-6,000, but in the end the attendance for Jari Litmanen's return was 4,163. Seasoned football-watchers were unsurprised about that, given the history of football in Lahti. One told me that "hardly anybody in Lahti supports FC Lahti. The real clubs there are Kuusysi and Reipas. Click to continue reading...

Juha raised a good question the other day about Finnish teams in Europe. Are they happy to draw big clubs, in the expectation that they will get a drubbing and a bumper crowd, or do they prefer to get the unkown teams that might offer a chance of priogress? TamU's co-owner Tim Rowe was rather [...] Click to continue reading...

FF Jaro - Tampere United 1-4 RoPS - FC Inter 0-0 HJK - IFK Mariehamn 4-0 MyPa - FC Honka 0-2 FC Haka - VPS 1-0 FC Lahti - FC KooTeePee 1-0 TPS - KuPS 3-3 Click on the game for highlights. TPS-KuPS should appear later. Inter still did not lose, but their form is not so amazing anymore. They have drawn six [. Click to continue reading...

Once again, the games start on Saturday and the last one will be played on Wednesday - so if my predictions go wrong as far as Wednesday's TPS-KuPS is concerned, I'll blame it on having to write the preview so early. FF Jaro - Tampere United This is Saturday's only game. TamU are probably tired following their [. Click to continue reading...

RoPS built their convincing 4-0 win against KuPS on some excellent finishing at the offensive end. Chileshe Chibwe netted twice to give RoPS a 2-0 lead and the job was finished by Mika Nurmela and Juha Majava in the second half. Chibwe scored his first in the 6th with an excellent header and bagged another [. Click to continue reading...

TamU lost yesterday, but the stats show a decent performance. The result sent MyPa to the top of the league, and kept TamU down in  lower mid-table. They will almost certainly have to rely on the cup to get into Europe this year, and they have a tough Quarter Final draw: FC Haka – TP-47 FC Honka [. Click to continue reading...

TamU lost 2-1 to Honka yesterday, with King Henri Myntti getting the goal for TamU. I didn't go, as i got drunk in the afternoon and managed to forget about it until it was rather late. Such is the Finnish summer. Sounded like a crap game, but at least the King is still scoring and [...] Click to continue reading...