KuPS are 9 points behind HJK in the table, with one match in hand. They have surely both proved to be the top-2 teams in the league, and far ahead of the rest.

KTP are the promoted side, cheapest, weakest, and did not do that well in the transfer window either, and the relegation back to Ykkönen is the most likely outcome.

There is basically only one - but a rather big - but here. KuPS will play the biggest game of their history on Thursday when they face Union Berlin in the last qualification round of the European Conference league, the first leg will take place in Helsinki as KuPS stadion is not approved by UEFA.

However it is on Thursday so there is enough rest in-between, and KuPS coach Simo Valakari has showed and even said that these matches between European games are extremely interesting and important.

KuPS won Haka between first round games, they won Ilves between 2nd round games and drew with Lahti between the Astana games. Now the opponent is significantly easier.

No lineups yet, I am expecting about 5 changes from latest starting-11, but then again, there also new players in KuPS, and the hat trick hero at Astana away Lucas Rangel came in only at half-time! So there is depth.

KuPS signed 4 new players in the last days, two centrebacks Tony Miettinen and Paulo Ricardo, attacking wingback Felipe Aspegren and striker Tim Väyrynen.

KTP's last win in the league came 13 rounds ago, away at Haka, and even then the result lied a lot as they did not even deserve to win, not to mention by 0-3!

To cut the story short, everything speaks for an easy home win, especially if we look at the absence list of KTP;

Mohamadou Sissoko, Antti Mäkijärvi, Aleksi Tarvonen, Anton Eerola, and Kimi Kolsi.

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在一场比赛中，上联落后HJK 9分。他们都证明了自己是联盟中排名前两的球队，并且远远领先于其他球队。

KTP是提升的一方，成本最低，实力最弱，在转会窗口也表现不佳，而降级回Ykkönen是最有可能的结果。

基本上只有一个——但相当大——但是在这里。周四，加盟队将在欧洲联赛资格赛的最后一轮比赛中对阵柏林联盟队，这将是加盟队历史上最重要的一场比赛。第一回合比赛将在赫尔辛基举行，因为加盟队的体育场没有得到欧足联的批准。

然而今天是周四，所以有足够的休息时间，而KuPS教练西莫·瓦拉卡里已经表明，甚至说这些欧洲比赛之间的比赛是非常有趣和重要的。

up在第一轮比赛中赢了Haka，在第二轮比赛中赢了Ilves，在阿斯塔纳比赛中和Lahti打平。现在对手明显容易多了。

目前还没有阵容，我预计从最近的11个首发阵容中会有5个变化，但话又说回来，在上一站也有新球员，在阿斯塔纳客场的卢卡斯·兰格尔(Lucas Rangel)的帽子戏法英雄只是在半场时才出场!这就是深度。

在过去的几天里，该公司签下了4名新球员，两名中后卫托尼·米耶蒂宁和保罗·里卡多，进攻边后卫菲利普·阿斯佩格伦和前锋蒂姆Väyrynen。

KTP在联赛中的最后一场胜利是在13轮之前，客场对阵哈卡，即使在那时，结果也有很多谎言，因为他们甚至不应该赢，更不用说0-3了!

简而言之，一切都说明了主场的胜利是轻而易举的，特别是如果我们看看KTP的缺席名单;

Mohamadou Sissoko, Antti Mäkijärvi, Aleksi Tarvonen, Anton Eerola, Kimi Kolsi。

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