Premier Liga match prediction: Little separates Tuzla City and Sarajevo in quality

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Competition: Bosnia and Herzegovina Premier Liga
Competition: Fri 30.September
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Gradski Stadion (9730 seats)

The home side, Tuzla City, should be expected winners in this fixture, but Sarajevo have revealed both skill and courage. Learn more about the match!

Insights:
  • Tuzla City have the most scored goals (23) in Premier Liga
  • Sarajevo have the most scored goals in the second half (14) in Premier Liga

This could be an engaging game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well revitalized since they last played a game. Let's go!

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Tuzla City form and stats

The story so far in the Premier Liga for Tuzla City, who have the most scored goals (23) in Premier Liga, at their home stadium (Gradski Stadion) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

The Tuzla City followers got no joy from their last match, also played here at Gradski Stadion: A 0-1 defeat against Borac Banja Luka (placed 3rd).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Igman Konjic (2-3).

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Tuzla City have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 7 matches with the results: Won 0, drawn 4 and lost 3.

Lots of goals? Nobody knows about this one, but we do know that 8 of the 10 most recent league games with this side has contained three goals or more.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (11 in 5 games), Tuzla City's attacking play is working. Tuzla have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Sarajevo form and stats

1-2-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sarajevo in their Premier Liga matches away.

Sarajevo are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Velez (placed 8th). The draw against Velez came from a losing position. The Sarajevo manager Dudic brought on Ikić as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.

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

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Sarajevo playing away and similar expectations, we found 9 relevant matches. Results were 3 Sarajevo wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats.

Sarajevo have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 5 league away games 7 goals have been scored.

Head 2 Head

Tuzla City have pulled off a streak of 5 consecutive matches without defeat (3-2-0) when playing Sarajevo.

Sarajevo - Tuzla City 1-5 was the score in these contenders' latest H2H match, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

SarajevoI. Ikić
I. Ikić
5 goals
TuzlaS. Smajlagić
S. Smajlagić
4 goals
Tuzla CityP. Mišić
P. Mišić
3 goals

Tuzla City missing players

Sarajevo missing players

Tuzla City Sarajevo
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 5 0 Played P 2 5 11
5 3 0 Won W 1 1 4
1 1 0 Drew D 1 2 4
4 1 0 Lost L 0 2 3
23 11 0 Scored S 5 7 17
15 3 0 Conceded C 3 10 18
90% 80% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
80% 60% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 82%
80% 60% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 60% 55%
60% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 60% 45%
50% 40% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 27%
50% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 80% 64%
30% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 27%
30% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 18%
 
4.6 3.4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3 5 6.5
4.7 3.4 0 Corners against (avg) C A 5 7 4.9
2.4 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.5 4 2.9
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
9.5 7.2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 12 11.6 16.7
4.3 3.4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 5 7
53% 65% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 45% 28% 22%
 
9.4 6.2 0 Shots against (avg) S A 8.5 10.6 7.8
4 2.4 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 5 4.1
Key stats in Premier Liga this season:
  • All of Sarajevo's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Sarajevo have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Sarajevo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sarajevo have the most scored goals in the second half (14) in Premier Liga
  • Sarajevo have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Sarajevo haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Tuzla City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Tuzla City have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Premier Liga
  • Tuzla City have the most matches over the total-line (8) in Premier Liga
  • Tuzla City have the most scored goals (23) in Premier Liga
  • Tuzla City have the most scored goals in the first half (12) in Premier Liga
  • Tuzla City have won significantly less corners at home than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Siroki Brijeg 10 5 4 1 10 6 5 4 1 0 6 0 5 1 3 1 4 6 4 19
2 Zeljeznicar 11 5 4 2 17 14 6 3 3 0 10 6 5 2 1 2 7 8 3 19
3 Borac Banja Luka 11 5 2 4 10 11 6 3 1 2 5 5 5 2 1 2 5 6 -1 17
4 Tuzla City 10 5 1 4 23 15 5 3 1 1 11 3 5 2 0 3 12 12 8 16
5 Sarajevo 11 4 4 3 17 18 6 3 2 1 10 8 5 1 2 2 7 10 -1 16
6 Zrinjski 8 5 0 3 15 6 4 3 0 1 13 4 4 2 0 2 2 2 9 15
7 Sloga Doboj 11 4 2 5 19 18 6 3 2 1 11 6 5 1 0 4 8 12 1 14
8 Velez 10 2 6 2 11 9 4 2 2 0 9 3 6 0 4 2 2 6 2 12
9 Sloboda Tuzla 11 2 6 3 9 9 6 2 2 2 8 6 5 0 4 1 1 3 0 12
10 Igman Konjic 11 3 3 5 11 15 6 3 1 2 8 6 5 0 2 3 3 9 -4 12
11 Posusje 11 3 2 6 9 15 6 1 2 3 7 10 5 2 0 3 2 5 -6 11
12 Leotar 11 2 2 7 6 21 3 1 1 1 1 1 8 1 1 6 5 20 -15 8

Read more about Premier Liga

The BH Telecom Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH Telecom Premijer liga Bosne i Hercegovie, or just Liga 12) is the top football league in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has twelve teams who play each other three times for a total of 33 fixtures to create the final league table.