The match between HIFK and SJK settled dramatically in the 95th minute of play.
HIFK – SJK 2–2 (1–0)
Helsinki IFK was unable to get closer to next season’s Europel place when the team was left at home in a 2–2 draw with Veikkausliiga series member SJK.
SJK holds the last European seat and is seven points ahead of HIFK with three games left in the season.
Töölö became the hero of Bolt Arena on Saturday night Aldayr Hernandez, which made the HIFK equalizer extra time in the fifth minute of play.
HIFK took the lead with a real gift goal. 18 minutes Jake Dunwoody sent a free kick in the penalty area Kei Kamaraa.
As good as Kamara is in the main game situations, Dunwoody was lucky that the ball didn’t reach him. SJK’s Ville Tikkanen pushed his head into the center of the road with fatal consequences.
The young defender’s butt turned into a world-class finish when the ball bounced from a 16-meter-high arc goalkeeper Jesse Östin over to your own goal.
“I couldn’t push the ball in just the right position. I was just thinking of putting something in between so the ball doesn’t go all the way to the finish. That was bad. Even though it was a great goal, it went a bit wrong, ”the scorer repeated.
Darts is not actually known as a goal gun, as he has scored only one goal in the four seasons he played in the Veikkausliiga. With such a finish, the net would seem to sway more often.
At the end of the first half, Tikkanen also showed off his skills at the other end of the field. He easily outpaced HIFK before taking it around the goalkeeper and putting it into the empty net.
For the second time in the evening, the SJK defender had to bury his face in his hands. A handicap with a dream shot would have been the perfect way to set off an unfortunate own goal.
“I must have caught a couple of cents,” Tikkanen lamented.
Hour in the case of SJK got the top spot to equalize the match at a glance after HIFK Sakari Mattila tuupasi Tucoa hard outside the game situation. Markus Uusitalo rejected, however Denys Oliinykin rankkarin.
Emotions on the ground began to warm to boiling point. 66 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 1 – 1 as Tuco finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick Daniel Hakans shot to SJK’s lead. The game turned to black shirts irresistibly.
Before the final moments of HIFK leveled off, a fierce time-lapse was seen on the field. The home crowd was frustrated and threw cardboard cups from the stands. Hernandez’s goal caused the fan head to tear from its joints.
Previously On Saturday, SJK Academy played in the final of the Kakkonen Cup against PEPO from Lappeenranta but lost 2-3. However, the Academy has already secured Kakkonen’s series victory and rise to No. 1 next season.
HIFK will play their next match on Saturday next week in Kuopio as a guest of KuPS.
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