Both are class-wise now bottom-4, but Lahti are not as bad as their results show, they have some really good excuses behind the results.

HIFK did have another mess in their coaching staff recently as they published that their new coach Tavares left the team because of family matters. A week later Tavares himself signed with an Indonesian club, yesterday HIFK announced that Mixu Paatelainen - previously for example at Hong Kong. He will take over on 22nd of April.

So today they are without a coach, but there is not much change as the players described the era of Tavares like being without a coach!

HIFK results are weak, but their performances even weaker and they would had deserved to lose big vs MIFK last round, also at home.

The cup win came against 5th tier team and is no sign of any improvement.

Lahti's last home game was actually away at VPS. They were short in defenders to start with, one of their centre-backs threw up in the team bus for the whole 5 hours and lowered the morale, and there was an early red card for the remaining sole centre-back, so let us forget the 0-5.

It is true that the Kosovian origin coach Ilir Zeneli has made some poor choices in choosing starters and he seems to have a blind sport for his fellow countrymen, but this is a match they can not afford to lose, they have the better team and 1 hours distance to cover so they should not be underdogs here at all!

The team news are not especially good at Lahti, they miss Juho Pirttijoki, Lassi Järvenpää, Martinos Christofi, Samuel Pasanen, Daniel Koskipalo and keeper Joona Tiainen, but it is not as bad as it looks. They have a better keeper Reguero available, and two of the players listed would not had started anyway.

At HIFK the team last time was stronger on paper than before, but the new names and old names fail badly to impress, the expectedly biggest starts were the weakest on the pitch, and that is unlikely to change soon in a team that has trained well all winter.

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这两队现在都排在第四，但拉赫蒂并不像他们的结果显示的那样糟糕，他们在结果背后有一些很好的理由。

HIFK的教练组最近又出了一件事，他们公布了他们的新教练Tavares因为家庭问题离开了球队。一个星期后，塔瓦雷斯本人与一家印尼俱乐部签约，昨天HIFK宣布，米苏·帕特莱宁——之前的例子是在香港。他将于4月22日接任。

所以今天他们没有教练，但是就像球员们描述的塔瓦雷斯时代没有教练一样，变化不大!

HIFK的结果很弱，但他们的表现更弱，他们本应该在上一轮对MIFK的比赛中失利，也是在主场。

冠军是在对阵5级球队的时候取得的，而且没有任何进步的迹象。

拉赫蒂的最后一场主场比赛实际上是客场对阵VPS。他们一开始就缺少后卫，他们的一个中后卫在球队大巴上呕吐了整整5个小时，降低了士气，而且剩下的唯一的中后卫在早些时候被罚了一张红牌，所以让我们忘记0-5。

确实Kosovian起源教练梅Zeneli使得一些可怜的选择在选择首发,他似乎对他的同胞们盲目的运动,但这是一个匹配他们可不能丢,他们有更好的球队和1小时距离这里他们不应该处于劣势!

球队的消息对拉赫蒂来说不是特别好，他们失去了尤霍·皮尔蒂约基、拉西Järvenpää、马蒂诺斯·克里斯托菲、塞缪尔·帕萨宁、丹尼尔·科斯基帕洛和门将乔娜·蒂艾宁，但情况并没有看起来那么糟。他们有一个更好的门将，而且名单上的两名球员无论如何都不会首发。

在HIFK，这支球队在理论上比以前更强了，但是新老球员都没有给人留下深刻的印象，预期中的最好的首发球员在球场上却是最弱的，这在一支整个冬天都训练良好的球队中不太可能很快改变。

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