Radnički Pirot vs IMT Novi Beograd: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Serbia Prva Liga
Competition: Sun 14.March
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Dragan Nikolić (13816 seats)

Struggling Radnički Pirot will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying IMT Novi Beograd in the upcoming league round. It’s 14th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Radnički Pirot have the most conceded goals in the first half (18) in Prva Liga
  • IMT Novi Beograd is in the best form (5-1-0)

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Radnički Pirot form and stats

When playing at home in the Prva Liga, Radnički Pirot have managed 4 wins, 3 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 10 games.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Ivan Dokic not having conceded a league goal in 248 minutes.

Radnički shared the glory with Grafičar in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Radnicki Sr. Mitrovica.

Radnički Pirot are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 10 games. Radnički Pirot's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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IMT Novi Beograd form and stats

4 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of IMT Novi Beograd, who have the most scored goals (16) away in Prva Liga, playing as the away team in the Prva Liga this season. Beograd has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

IMT Novi Beograd play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting Dinamo Vranje (placed 16th). That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Grafičar.

The travelling fans enjoy Beograd's attacking play in away games, having scored 16 goals in 10 league matches away. 11 goals have been conceded by Beograd in these games.

Head 2 Head

IMT Novi Beograd - Radnički 2-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

Radnički PirotS. Petrovic
S. Petrovic
6 goals
Radnički PirotA. Kostić Milutinović
A. Kostić Milutinović
4 goals

Radnički Pirot missing players

IMT Novi Beograd missing players

Radnički Pirot IMT Novi Beograd
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 10 4 Played P 5 10 20
6 4 0 Won W 3 4 9
6 3 2 Drew D 2 4 5
8 3 2 Lost L 0 2 6
20 10 3 Scored S 8 16 29
29 11 7 Conceded C 2 11 19
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 60% 80% 85%
75% 60% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 80% 70%
50% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 70% 50%
20% 10% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 40% 30%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
60% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 40% 60% 40%
15% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 60% 30% 40%
30% 30% 50% Failed to Score F T 40% 30% 35%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.8 2.7 2.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.4 2.3 1.9
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
8.4 9.4 9.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7.6 7.1 8.4
4 4.1 3.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.6 3.6 3.9
25% 24% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 44% 37%
Key stats in Prva Liga this season:
  • IMT Novi Beograd have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • IMT Novi Beograd have the most scored goals (16) away in Prva Liga
  • IMT Novi Beograd have the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Prva Liga
  • IMT Novi Beograd is in the best form (5-1-0)
  • Radnički Pirot have the most conceded goals in the first half (18) in Prva Liga
  • Radnički Pirot haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Radnicki Kragujevac 20 13 6 1 32 13 10 9 1 0 23 6 10 4 5 1 9 7 19 45
2 Kabel Novi Sad 20 11 6 3 25 11 10 5 4 1 14 7 10 6 2 2 11 4 14 39
3 IMT Novi Beograd 20 9 5 6 29 19 10 5 1 4 13 8 10 4 4 2 16 11 10 32
4 Kolubara 20 9 5 6 23 22 10 6 3 1 11 6 10 3 2 5 12 16 1 32
5 Grafičar 20 8 7 5 26 19 10 5 4 1 17 7 10 3 3 4 9 12 7 31
6 Buducnost Dobanovci 20 9 4 7 25 21 10 6 2 2 14 7 10 3 2 5 11 14 4 31
7 Loznica 20 8 7 5 27 26 10 4 4 2 19 17 10 4 3 3 8 9 1 31
8 Zarkovo 20 8 5 7 21 21 10 5 2 3 9 8 10 3 3 4 12 13 0 29
9 Jagodina 20 6 10 4 17 15 10 4 6 0 11 3 10 2 4 4 6 12 2 28
10 Borac Cacak 20 8 3 9 27 22 10 4 1 5 12 10 10 4 2 4 15 12 5 27
11 Trajal Krusevac 20 7 4 9 20 25 10 6 1 3 13 11 10 1 3 6 7 14 -5 25
12 Dubocica 20 5 9 6 17 21 10 4 5 1 12 8 10 1 4 5 5 13 -4 24
13 Zeleznicar Pancevo 20 7 3 10 19 26 10 4 2 4 9 11 10 3 1 6 10 15 -7 24
14 Radnički Pirot 20 6 6 8 20 29 10 4 3 3 10 11 10 2 3 5 10 18 -9 24
15 Radnicki Sr. Mitrovica 20 5 4 11 20 20 10 2 2 6 12 13 10 3 2 5 8 7 0 19
16 Dinamo Vranje 20 5 3 12 25 35 10 4 1 5 16 16 10 1 2 7 9 19 -10 18
17 Zemun 20 4 4 12 15 25 10 3 2 5 8 11 10 1 2 7 7 14 -10 16
18 Sloga Kraljevo 20 3 7 10 14 32 10 2 5 3 9 10 10 1 2 7 5 22 -18 16

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.