The first leg ended B36-Rijeka 1-3. All is set for the decider in this Europa Conference League 3rd Qualifying Round fixture!
Rijeka's stadium, Stadion HNK Rijeka, has a grass surface. B36 have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for B36 when playing on grass; 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss from seven matches. They have scored {8 goals} in these games and conceded 6.
These teams have little in common geographically as B36 have to travel 2900 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Meistaradeildin.
Rijeka form and stats
Rijeka have not come this way in the Europa Conference League without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Dukagjini. Rijeka was eliminated in the 2nd qualifying round last season in the Europa Conference League. Djurgården was too strong.As mentioned below, Rijeka are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 1. HNL games. This match is a Europa Conference League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in this competition.
Rijeka are returning here after guesting B36 in a Europa Conference League game and winning with a 3-1 scoreline.
Previous to that game, a 1. HNL home match hosting Istra 1961 in a game that was won 6-0.Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the 1. HNL game versus Lokomotiva Zagreb in only three days. This game is also played here at Stadion HNK Rijeka.
Rijeka has scored {10 goals} so far and conceded {0 goals} from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
B36 form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Haverfordwest County and Paide in order to reach 3rd qualifying round of Europa Conference League. They also participated in Europa Conference League last season. This ended in the 3rd qualifying round, when Viborg drew the shortest straw.B36 have an excellent away record in the Meistaradeildin so far with 6-1-2 from 9 games. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa Conference League stats, they have 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss both home and away.
B36 go into this game after a win, the home game against TB that ended 4-0. As mentioned above, B36 was the only team on the pitch versus TB in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
The game earlier was the Europa Conference League-battle against Rijeka, a home loss (1-3). B36 are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found 12 matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were 6 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats. Of the defeats, 2 games were lost by at least two goals margin.
A new game in only four days for B36, the Meistaradeildin home match versus B68. Busy days.
B36 are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 6 times in 9 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The fixture history shows this score when the participants met earlier this campaign; B36 - Rijeka 1-3.
Top Goalscorers
  V. Šabala 8 goals |  B. Nielsen 6 goals |  M. Egilsson 6 goals |
Rijeka missing players
B36 missing players
| Rijeka | B36 | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 10 | Won | W | 7 | 16 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | ||
| 51 | 37 | Scored | S | 21 | 48 | ||
| 18 | 9 | Conceded | C | 7 | 24 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 88% | ||
| 52% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 54% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 28% | ||
| 8% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | ||
| 40% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Clean Sheets | C S | 55% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 9% | 16% | ||
| 5.6 | 7.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.6 | ||
| 1.2 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2.1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 14.7 | 17.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.2 | 11.5 | ||
| 5.1 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.8 | ||
| 40% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 40% | ||
| 8.6 | 8.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.4 | 10.2 | ||
| 3 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Hajduk Split | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 2 | Osijek | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| 3 | Rijeka | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 |
| 4 | Varazdin | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Gorica | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | Dinamo Zagreb | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Slaven Koprivnica | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | -7 | 4 |
| 8 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 2 |
| 9 | Istra 1961 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | -9 | 2 |
| 10 | Rudes | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -8 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | KI | 17 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 7 | 35 | 48 |
| 2 | HB | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 49 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 37 | 41 |
| 3 | B36 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 40 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 23 | 40 |
| 4 | Vikingur | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 39 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 20 | 33 |
| 5 | 07 Vestur | 18 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 32 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 29 |
| 6 | EB / Streymur | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 32 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 17 | -17 | 16 |
| 7 | TB | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 41 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 28 | -29 | 15 |
| 8 | B68 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 34 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -15 | 14 |
| 9 | IF | 18 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 17 | 47 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 24 | -30 | 12 |
| 10 | AB | 18 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 13 | 40 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 26 | -27 | 10 |
