National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Spišská Nová Ves or Žilina that keep their silverware dream alive.
Spišská Nová Ves's stadium, Štadión Nová Ves, has a grass surface. Žilina 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 Žilina when playing on grass; 9 wins, 12 draws and 17 losses from 38 matches. They have scored 56 goals in these games and conceded 64.
There have been limited time to rest for the hosting team, as they played a 3. Liga - East match only three days earlier. That game was an away game at Filakovo, so at least Spišská Nová Ves are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Spišská Nová Ves form and stats
Action has already taken place for Spišská in Slovakia Cup as they have defeated Medzibrod and Partizan Osrblie to reach the 3rd Round. Spišská Nová Ves was eliminated in the preliminary round last season in the Slovakia Cup.Happy days for Spišská Nová Ves in their previous game, a fixture away at Filakovo that ended with a 2-1 victory.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Namestovo (1-2).Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Partizan Bardejov are coming to town in three days.
Žilina form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Pribelce in order to reach 3rd round of Slovakia Cup. They also participated in Slovakia Cup last season. This ended in the quarter-finals.The story so far for the visiting team on their Super Liga travels is 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
Žilina play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Ružomberok.
Before that, the Slovakia Cup win away at Pribelce.
A new game in only three days for Žilina, the Super Liga home match versus Liptovský Mikuláš. Busy days.
6 goals have been conceded by Žilina in these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. Duris 4 goals |
Spišská Nová Ves missing players
Žilina missing players
| Spišská Nová Ves | Žilina | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 57 | 26 | Scored | S | 18 | 33 | ||
| 25 | 9 | Conceded | C | 18 | 30 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 44% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 30% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 52% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 48% | ||
| 44% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 36% | ||
| 4.5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4.4 | ||
| 4.2 | 2.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.6 | 6.3 | ||
| 2.7 | 3.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.5 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.8 | 10.9 | ||
| 4.1 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.4 | ||
| 42% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 26% | ||
| 6.8 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.8 | 12.9 | ||
| 2.8 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 5.1 | ||
| 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 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 22 |
| 2 | Spartak Trnava | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 18 |
| 3 | Podbrezová | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 17 |
| 4 | DAC | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 16 |
| 5 | Žilina | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 15 |
| 6 | Ružomberok | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 7 | Banska Bystrica | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -6 | 12 |
| 8 | Skalica | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -4 | 11 |
| 9 | Trenčín | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -7 | 11 |
| 10 | Zemplín Michalovce | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -7 | 8 |
| 11 | Zlaté Moravce | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -7 | 7 |
| 12 | Liptovský Mikuláš | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -11 | 4 |
