Novi Sad favourites for feisty fight facing Loznica

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Competition: Serbia Prva Liga
Competition: Wed 12.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Pivara Stadion (3000 seats)

We should have a pronounced gap in performance between these sides based on results so far, with Novi Sad leading Loznica by 15 points.

Insights:
  • Loznica have the the worst goal difference (-19) in Prva Liga

Loznica are nearing the end of this stay in this division as relegation is now unavoidable.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Novi Sad form and stats

7-4-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Prva Liga numbers at home for Novi Sad so far this season.

Happy days for Novi Sad in their previous game, a fixture away at Mačva Šabac (placed 12th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Finally, a league victory after five matches without one.

Before that game, the home loss against Radnički Sr. Mitrovica with the scoreline 1-4.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Novi Sad handle that role? We have found 6 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

It should be taken into account that a peek at the 10 most recent league fixtures shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Novi as they are travelling to their away game against Rad Beograd in the Prva Liga. That match is three days after this one.

Novi Sad has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Novi Sad have conceded only 11 goals.

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Loznica form and stats

There's been little loot from Loznica's travels as they have only collected 13 points from 14 away games in the Prva Liga. Loznica only have 3 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 4 draws.

Loznica are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the match against Zlatibor Čajetina (placed 16th). That win was so crucial for this team, after a painful sequence of ten league games in a row not winning.

Preceding that game, the 0-5 loss visiting Železničar Pančevo's place.

Loznica are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.

A tale of few goals? 8 of this side's most recent 10 league rounds have seen zero, one or two goals.

A new game in only three days for Loznica, the Prva Liga home match versus Trajal Krusevac. Busy days.

The attacking power of Loznica when travelling is not overwhelming with 12 goals scored from 14 league matches away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Loznica's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 23 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

It's not the first time these teams meet this season, as the fixture list show this recent match: Loznica - Novi Sad 1-4. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Kokir with 2 goals scored against Loznica in these 1 encounters.

Top Goalscorers

LoznicaD. Komarčević
D. Komarčević
6 goals
Novi SadS. Vujaklija
S. Vujaklija
5 goals
Novi SadJ. Kokir
J. Kokir
5 goals

Novi Sad missing players

Loznica missing players

Novi Sad Loznica
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
28 14 5 Played P 4 14 28
12 7 3 Won W 0 3 6
6 4 1 Drew D 1 4 9
10 3 1 Lost L 3 7 13
34 17 8 Scored S 2 12 25
29 11 3 Conceded C 12 23 44
93% 86% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 86%
61% 57% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 57% 61%
32% 29% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 36% 39%
21% 14% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 36% 32%
18% 14% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 21% 18%
43% 43% 40% BTTS BTTS 50% 43% 50%
32% 43% 40% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 25%
32% 29% 40% Failed to Score F T 50% 50% 39%
 
3.3 3.6 4.6 Corners for (avg) C F 0.8 2.6 2.8
3.3 3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 5.3 4.7
3.4 3.2 3.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3 2.8
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
8.2 9 11.2 Shots (avg) S ( 5.2 5.1 6.6
2.9 3.3 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 2.4 2.9
42% 37% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 35% 31%
 
8.9 8.4 7.8 Shots against (avg) S A 10 10.9 9.7
3.2 3 3.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.2 4.1
Key stats in Prva Liga this season:
  • Loznica have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Loznica have the most conceded goals in the first half (19) in Prva Liga
  • Loznica have the the worst goal difference (-19) in Prva Liga

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 IMT Novi Beograd 28 17 7 4 44 25 14 9 4 1 26 13 14 8 3 3 18 12 19 58
2 Železničar Pančevo 28 16 5 7 44 24 14 11 0 3 33 12 14 5 5 4 11 12 20 53
3 Grafičar 28 14 5 9 54 35 14 8 2 4 32 17 14 6 3 5 22 18 19 47
4 Novi Sad 28 12 6 10 34 29 14 7 4 3 17 11 14 5 2 7 17 18 5 42
5 Radnički Sr. Mitrovica 28 10 12 6 27 23 14 7 6 1 14 8 14 3 6 5 13 15 4 42
6 Jedinstvo Ub 28 11 7 10 29 25 14 7 4 3 17 8 14 4 3 7 12 17 4 40
7 Inđija 28 9 12 7 33 28 14 5 4 5 16 12 14 4 8 2 17 16 5 39
8 Radnički Novi Beograd 28 11 4 13 25 31 14 9 1 4 15 9 14 2 3 9 10 22 -6 37
9 Sloboda Užice 28 7 15 6 28 28 14 6 7 1 19 10 14 1 8 5 9 18 0 36
10 OFK Vršac 28 10 6 12 26 30 14 8 2 4 16 9 14 2 4 8 10 21 -4 36
11 Trajal Krusevac 28 9 7 12 28 35 14 7 5 2 19 16 14 2 2 10 9 19 -7 34
12 Mačva Šabac 28 7 12 9 26 30 14 5 7 2 16 12 14 2 5 7 10 18 -4 33
13 Metalac GM 28 8 8 12 25 31 14 7 3 4 16 10 14 1 5 8 9 21 -6 32
14 Loznica 28 6 9 13 25 44 14 3 5 6 13 21 14 3 4 7 12 23 -19 27
15 Rad Beograd 28 4 12 12 31 46 14 2 7 5 17 21 14 2 5 7 14 25 -15 24
16 Zlatibor Čajetina 28 4 11 13 26 41 14 2 8 4 15 15 14 2 3 9 11 26 -15 23

Read more about Prva Liga

The Serbian First League (or Prva Liga Srbije or just PLS) is the second highest football league in Serbia. It has 16 teams playing each other home and away, making 30 fixtures in the regular season. After this the league table splits in two, the championship round and the relegation round.