Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Rimavská Sobota & Banska Bystrica face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Slovakia Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Rimavská Sobota have less rest than Banska Bystrica in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a 3. Liga - East game only four days ago. This match was also played here at Futbalový štadión Na Záhradkách. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Banska Bystrica have had more rest.
Rimavská Sobota form and stats
Rimavská have reached this Slovakia Cup stage through battling and winning against Slovan Tomasovce and Banik Velky Krtis. Rimavská Sobota participated in Slovakia Cup the last season, where they reached the 1st round.The Rimavská Sobota regulars enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Filakovo and win 4-0. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Rimavská played a great game against Filakovo and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Before that, Rimavská Sobota played out a 3. Liga - East draw 0-0 when visiting Novohrad Lucenec.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Rimavská Sobota, as the 3. Liga - East home game vs Vranov nad Toplou is only four days away.
Banska Bystrica form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Vinica in order to reach 3rd round of Slovakia Cup. Last season their Slovakia Cup adventure ended in the 3rd round.3-0-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Banska Bystrica in their Super Liga matches away.
Bystrica delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Skalica in their previous fixture.
Preceding that game was the away Super Liga victory against Liptovsky Mikulas with the score of 2-1.The visiting Banska Bystrica have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 8 goals from 7 games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last two games between these two teams, there's zero Rimavská victories, zero draws and two Banska Bystrica wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Polievka 5 goals |  D. Depetris 3 goals | L. Willwéber 2 goals |
Rimavská Sobota missing players
Banska Bystrica missing players
| Rimavská Sobota | Banska Bystrica | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 16 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 8 | 13 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 39 | 23 | Scored | S | 29 | 46 | ||
| 35 | 13 | Conceded | C | 23 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 94% | 84% | ||
| 60% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 12% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 64% | ||
| 40% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 19% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 12% | 16% | ||
| 4.2 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 5.1 | ||
| 5.6 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.1 | 3.9 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.4 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9.6 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 12.6 | ||
| 3.5 | 2.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 5.5 | ||
| 39% | 56% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 31% | ||
| 10.6 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.7 | 11.1 | ||
| 3.6 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 4.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Slovan Bratislava | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 23 |
| 2 | Podbrezova | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 20 |
| 3 | Spartak Trnava | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 19 |
| 4 | Zilina | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
| 5 | DAC | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 16 |
| 6 | Ruzomberok | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 7 | Banska Bystrica | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -6 | 13 |
| 8 | Skalica | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -4 | 12 |
| 9 | Zemplin Michalovce | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 11 |
| 10 | Trencin | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -9 | 11 |
| 11 | Zlate Moravce | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -8 | 7 |
| 12 | Liptovsky Mikulas | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -13 | 4 |
