Super Liga forecast and pre-match guide: Radnički Niš moderate expected to overwhelm Mladost Novi Sad

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Competition: Serbia Super Liga
Competition: Fri 21.April
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Gradski Stadion Čair (18151 seats)

Important clash in the bottom part of the Super Liga, with both Radnički Niš and Mladost Novi Sad going through more anxiety than happiness. This game is a classic "six-pointer" with the home side placed 11th and the visitors in 16th place.

Insights:
  • Radnički Niš have the most conceded goals (28) at home in Super Liga
  • Mladost Novi Sad have the fewest scored goals (20) in Super Liga

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Radnički Niš form and stats

When playing at home in the Super Liga, Radnički Niš have managed 4 wins, 4 draws and suffered 7 defeats from 15 games. When Radnički Niš hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Radnik Surdulica, Spartak Subotica, Javor Ivanjica, Radnički Niš and Mladost Lučani), they have won 3 of 4 matches!

Radnički Niš's previous game was also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Javor Ivanjica. The home side are looking to build on that result.

Heartbreak before that as Radnički Niš lost 0-1 at Radnički Kragujevac's place.

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 to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Radnički Niš as they are travelling to their away game against Radnik Surdulica in the Super Liga. That match is four days after this one.

Radnički has scored 20 league goals at home this season, in 15 matches. Radnički Niš have conceded 28 from these games.

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Mladost Novi Sad form and stats

There's been little loot from Mladost Novi Sad's travels as they have only collected 11 points from 15 away games in the Super Liga. Mladost Novi Sad only have 2 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 5 draws.

Mladost have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 237 minutes ago. Vidakov  was the goal scorer. The Mladost Novi Sad goalkeeper Marko Knezevic is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 180 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Mladost Novi Sad has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Mladost Lučani for a 0-0 draw.

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Kolubara.

Mladost are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 11 matches.

A new game in only four days for Mladost Novi Sad, the Super Liga home match versus Kolubara. Busy days.

The visitors have scored 10 goals from 15 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Mladost Novi Sad have seen the ball go into their own net 20 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Mladost Novi Sad - Radnički Niš 0-0 was the scoreline in these contenders' previous head-to-head game, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last two meetings: zero - two - zero (Radnički wins - draws - Mladost Novi Sad wins). As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Mladost Novi SadN. Maksimović
N. Maksimović
5 goals
Radnički NišM. Škrbić
M. Škrbić
3 goals
Radnički NišS. Marjanović
S. Marjanović
3 goals

Radnički Niš missing players

Mladost Novi Sad missing players

Radnički Niš Mladost Novi Sad
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 15 4 Played P 4 15 30
7 4 3 Won W 1 2 4
8 4 1 Drew D 2 5 8
15 7 0 Lost L 1 8 18
30 20 6 Scored S 3 10 20
51 28 1 Conceded C 3 20 45
90% 93% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 73% 80%
73% 87% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 60% 63%
53% 67% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 47%
37% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 13% 17%
13% 27% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 7%
43% 67% 25% BTTS BTTS 50% 27% 37%
23% 20% 75% Clean Sheets C S 50% 33% 27%
43% 20% 25% Failed to Score F T 50% 67% 57%
 
4.8 5.1 8.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3.8 2.6 3.8
4.7 4.5 4.2 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 4.7 4.4
2.2 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.4 2.2
3 3 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.7 9.9 10 Shots (avg) S ( 10.5 7.5 7.5
3.3 3.7 3.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.3 2.5
30% 36% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 29% 27%
 
9.5 9.7 7 Shots against (avg) S A 6.2 9.1 8.8
4 4.2 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.2 3.5 3.7
Key stats in Super Liga this season:
  • Mladost Novi Sad have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Mladost Novi Sad have the fewest scored goals (20) in Super Liga
  • Mladost Novi Sad have the most conceded goals in the first half (25) in Super Liga
  • Mladost Novi Sad have the the worst goal difference (-25) in Super Liga
  • Mladost Novi Sad have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Radnički Niš have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Radnički Niš have the most conceded goals (28) at home in Super 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 Crvena Zvezda 30 26 4 0 81 14 15 13 2 0 46 6 15 13 2 0 35 8 67 82
2 Backa Topola 30 18 8 4 52 22 15 8 4 3 26 13 15 10 4 1 26 9 30 62
3 Cukaricki 29 18 5 6 55 31 14 10 2 2 28 14 15 8 3 4 27 17 24 59
4 Partizan 29 17 6 6 57 27 15 7 5 3 27 16 14 10 1 3 30 11 30 57
5 Vojvodina 30 14 12 4 47 27 15 10 3 2 25 11 15 4 9 2 22 16 20 54
6 Novi Pazar 30 15 5 10 37 31 15 9 3 3 19 10 15 6 2 7 18 21 6 50
7 Voždovac 30 11 6 13 24 42 15 6 4 5 12 19 15 5 2 8 12 23 -18 39
8 Radnički Kragujevac 30 10 7 13 29 30 15 6 3 6 16 13 15 4 4 7 13 17 -1 37
9 Kolubara 30 10 7 13 23 45 15 8 3 4 17 17 15 2 4 9 6 28 -22 37
10 Napredak 30 8 7 15 22 31 15 5 6 4 13 10 15 3 1 11 9 21 -9 31
11 Radnički Niš 30 7 8 15 30 51 15 4 4 7 20 28 15 3 4 8 10 23 -21 29
12 Javor Ivanjica 30 7 8 15 28 49 15 4 3 8 12 22 15 3 5 7 16 27 -21 29
13 Spartak Subotica 30 5 10 15 26 43 15 4 5 6 18 19 15 1 5 9 8 24 -17 25
14 Mladost Lučani 30 4 11 15 32 52 15 4 5 6 21 24 15 0 6 9 11 28 -20 23
15 Radnik Surdulica 30 5 8 17 21 44 15 4 5 6 11 16 15 1 3 11 10 28 -23 23
16 Mladost Novi Sad 30 4 8 18 20 45 15 2 3 10 10 25 15 2 5 8 10 20 -25 20

Read more about Super Liga

The Serbian SuperLiga is the highest level of football in Serbia. It was founded in 2005 with Montenegro and from 2006 with only Serbian teams. 16 teams play each other home and away, resulting in 30 fixtures. The league table then splits in two; a relegation round and a championship round.