Zeljeznicar have travelled here for an exciting fight against the home side Velez. Get ready for the fixture with this thorough Premier Liga preview!
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.
Velez form and stats
In the previous season, Velez's league results were 13 wins, 8 draws and 12 losses, results that produced 5th place in the Premier Liga. In these 33 matches they scored 42 goals and gave away 37. Performing as the host team in the previous season Velez managed 8-2-6 (win-draw-lost) with 21 goals and 17 conceded.
The fans are hoping that Velez will fight back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Europa Conference League fixture against Hamrun Spartans.
Erik lost again The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Velez handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat.
Zeljeznicar form and stats
A perfect away game record so far for the visitors in the Premier Liga, but they have only played once. Last season their away game stats were 0 wins, 10 draws and 6 defeats from 16 matches.
Zeljeznicar's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Siroki Brijeg that finished 1-1.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Zrinjski.Zeljeznicar are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 4 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 9 matches.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Zeljeznicar has managed 2 goals and let in 1 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Data for the preceeding ten meetings involving these two sides are: two wins for Velez, four draws and four wins for Zeljeznicar. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games. The games between these sides have sometimes been brutal, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten duels.
Top Goalscorers
  Đ. Pantelić 1 goals |   E. Cocalić 1 goals | H. Gasal 1 goals |
Velez missing players
Zeljeznicar missing players
| Velez | Zeljeznicar | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 2 | 6.3 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3 | 2.7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 12 | 14.3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 7 | 6.7 |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 29% | 20% |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 15 | 8.7 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 5 | 4.3 |
| Velez | Last season | Zeljeznicar | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 33 | 16 | Played | P | 16 | 33 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 0 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Drew | D | 10 | 16 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 42 | 21 | Scored | S | 9 | 28 | ||
| 37 | 17 | Conceded | C | 20 | 29 | ||
| 94% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 69% | 76% | ||
| 76% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 64% | ||
| 42% | 38% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 6% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 12% | 6% | ||
| 6% | 6% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 6% | 3% | ||
| 52% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 44% | 36% | ||
| 30% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 56% | 39% | ||
| 4.6 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 5.1 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.7 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9.9 | 8.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.4 | 10 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 4.2 | ||
| 33% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 16% | 21% | ||
| 7.3 | 6.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.3 | 8.8 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 2.9 | ||
| 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 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Sarajevo | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | Zeljeznicar | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Sloga Doboj | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Borac Banja Luka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Zrinjski | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Velez | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Posusje | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 |
| 9 | Leotar | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 1 |
| 10 | Sloga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Igman Konjic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Sloboda Tuzla | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Zrinjski | 33 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 74 | 14 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 48 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 6 | 60 | 84 |
| 2 | Sloga | 33 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 49 | 36 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 31 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 57 |
| 3 | Borac Banja Luka | 33 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 44 | 34 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 27 | 15 | 16 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 10 | 54 |
| 4 | Sarajevo | 33 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 37 | 33 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 4 | 46 |
| 5 | Velez | 33 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 42 | 37 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 20 | 5 | 44 |
| 6 | Zeljeznicar | 33 | 9 | 16 | 8 | 28 | 29 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 20 | -1 | 43 |
| 7 | Siroki Brijeg | 33 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 31 | 35 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 19 | -4 | 39 |
| 8 | Posusje | 33 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 33 | 51 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 14 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 37 | -18 | 37 |
| 9 | Leotar | 33 | 9 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 46 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 28 | -21 | 34 |
| 10 | Sloboda Tuzla | 33 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 26 | 35 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 20 | -9 | 33 |
| 11 | Radnik Bijeljina | 33 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 34 | 53 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 35 | -19 | 27 |
| 12 | Rudar Prijedor | 33 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 28 | 48 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 31 | -20 | 26 |
