In Veikkausliiga, HJK are enjoying an excellent season and they sit at the top having won 11 of their 13 games so far. Their 12-match unbeaten run in the league was broken just before the first leg of this tie against Malmo, by foot of the table side Oulu, but they managed to get back to winning ways this weekend at the expense of Haka.
HJK generally manage positive results in European competitions in front of their home crowd. They defeated Red Star Belgrade 2-1 in 2019, however the tie was lost with the 2-0 defeat at Belgrade.
In Champions League qualifiers, they are unbeaten in 9 of the last 10 matches at their home ground and this can be split into 6 wins, 1 loss and 3 draws.
The teams from Helsinki started this season’s campaign with solid wins over Buducnost. The team from Macedonia was beaten 3-1 at Helsinki and then 4-0 at their backyard.
Just like their Tuesday’s opponent, Malmo are also enjoying a fine season in Allsvenskan and are top of the table after 13 rounds of football.
In Champions League qualifiers, they are unbeaten in the last 9, however 4 of them are draws. Their last appearance at the group stage happened in 2015/16 season and this is only their third qualification appearance since.
Malmo defeated Latvian side Riga FC in the previous round of this year’s qualifier, only by a narrow 2-1 aggregate margin, the decisive victory happened at home 1-0 before the second leg finished 1-1.




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在Veikkausliiga, HJK正享受着一个出色的赛季，迄今为止他们赢得了13场比赛中的11场。在与马尔默的第一回合比赛前，他们的12场不败纪录被桌脚的奥卢打破，但本周末，他们在哈卡的比赛中重新取得了胜利。
在欧洲的比赛中，HJK通常会在主场观众面前取得积极的成绩。他们在2019年以2比1击败了贝尔格莱德红星队，但最终以0比2输给了贝尔格莱德。
在欧冠预选赛中，他们在过去的10场主场比赛中有9场保持不败，这可以分为6胜1负3平。
来自赫尔辛基的球队在本赛季的比赛中以对布杜诺斯特的稳定胜利开始。来自马其顿的球队在赫尔辛基被3-1击败，然后在他们的后院被4-0击败。
就像他们周二的对手一样，马尔默在奥尔斯文斯坎也享受了一个不错的赛季，并在13轮的比赛后高居榜首。
在欧冠预选赛中，他们在9场比赛中保持不败，但其中4场是平局。他们上一次参加小组赛是在2015 - 16赛季，这是他们第三次参加资格赛。
马尔默在今年预选赛的上一轮比赛中以总比分2比1的微弱优势击败了拉脱维亚的里加队，在主场1比0取得决定性胜利，第二回合比赛以1比1结束。