In the Ykkösliiga game on 19 September 2026, Kooteepee beat PK-35 0:3. Match numbers: shots on target 0:8, corners 3:7.
Match report
Kuusysi beat PK-35 3:0 in the Ykkösliiga Group Stage on Friday evening, a result that shifts the standings at the top of the table. We had backed PK-35 to win at 47 per cent confidence, but the match went another way entirely — and it wasn't the football that did it. To be fair, the hosts were already chasing shadows when the first red card came.
Minute twenty-four brought the turning point. A. Forsstrom went off for PK-35, and by then the game had tilted. Kuusysi took the penalty themselves, P. Forsell converting at the quarter-hour mark to take the lead. The visitors had already shown they could punish mistakes — they'd beaten Jippon 2:0 and Ipswich 3:0 in their last two outings.
Seven minutes later S. Uchiyama followed Forsstrom off the pitch. PK-35 were down to ten men and still chasing the game. They made three changes at the break — E. Pitkala, J. Pikkuhookana and J. Nakanishi all came on — but you can't change a match that quickly when you're playing with ten men and no answers on the board.
Kuusysi added two more goals to put the result beyond doubt. Forsell grabbed his second in the seventy-eighth minute, and O. Hanninen found the net in the eighty-second. By then PK-35 had not registered a single shot on target — eight attempts against them, and not one found the back of the net. The statistics tell the story: 0.34 possession for the hosts, 0.66 for the visitors, and the difference showed in every pass.
The result leaves Kuusysi top with 54 points from twenty-three games, three clear of PK-35 in second place on 48. The gap has widened, and the hosts are running out of games to close it. PK-35 had won four of their last five before this — including a 4:1 victory over Kajaani — but two dismissals and a complete lack of daylight between the lines ended their momentum. And here's the thing: you can't ground out a win when you're not even keeping the ball.
HT🟥24' A. Forsstrom — Red card⚽25' P. Forsell — Penalty🟥31' S. Uchiyama — Red card⇄33' I. Sadik — Substitution⇄46' E. Pitkala — Substitution⇄46' J. Pikkuhookana — Substitution⇄46' J. Nakanishi — Substitution🟨59' A. Ramula — Yellow card⇄62' O. Eloluoto — Substitution⚽78' P. Forsell — Goal⇄79' A. Tanaka — Substitution⚽82' O. Hanninen — Goal⇄87' P. Ogunkoya — Substitution⇄87' P. Forsell — Substitution
