Zeljeznicar welcome Tuzla City as obvious favourites: Big preview

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Competition: Bosnia and Herzegovina Premier Liga
Competition: Sat 08.April
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Grbavica (15000 seats)

This campaign has been a rollercoaster for these contenders so far, highs and lows leading to mid-table positions so far. Gear up for Zeljeznicar - Tuzla City!

Insights:
  • Zeljeznicar have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Tuzla City have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Premier Liga

It's no vacation for neither Zeljeznicar nor Tuzla City as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Zeljeznicar form and stats

6-4-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier Liga numbers at home for Zeljeznicar so far this season.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 191 minutes without scoring a league goal. Amoah was the last player to find the net.

Zeljeznicar's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Tuzla City (placed 7th).

Before that match, a loss in the away fixture against Velez in the Bosnia Cup.

Trench warfare? Looking at this club's last 17 league games, 13 have seen less than three goals (under 2.5).

Zeljeznicar has scored 19 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. Zeljeznicar are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadion Grbavica in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 12 from 13 matches.

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Tuzla City form and stats

Tuzla City have only collected 12 points from their away games in the Premier Liga, after 3-3-7 (13 played).

Tuzla City play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Zeljeznicar (placed 5th). That win was so crucial for this team, after a terrible period of 13 league games in a row not winning.

The fixture before was the Bosnia Cup-duel against Zrinjski, a home defeat (0-3). As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Tuzla playing away, we found 4 games. Results were 1 away win, 3 draws and 0 home wins.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Tuzla City have scored 14 goals in 13 league games away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Tuzla City have conceded 24 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Zeljeznicar - Tuzla City 0-1. Padovani (Tuzla City) was given a red card by the ref when these teams last met. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Zeljeznicar three wins, three draws and Tuzla City four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

ZeljeznicarS. Štilić
S. Štilić
5 goals
ZeljeznicarC. Santos Rodrigus
C. Santos Rodrigus
5 goals
ZeljeznicarJ. Amoah
J. Amoah
5 goals

Zeljeznicar missing players

Tuzla City missing players

Zeljeznicar Tuzla City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
25 13 2 Played P 2 13 25
11 6 0 Won W 1 3 7
6 4 2 Drew D 0 3 6
8 3 0 Lost L 1 7 12
31 19 3 Scored S 5 14 32
26 12 3 Conceded C 4 24 37
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 85% 84%
60% 62% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 69% 64%
40% 31% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 62% 60%
20% 23% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 38% 36%
8% 15% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 23% 24%
56% 54% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 31% 40%
28% 31% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 31% 32%
20% 15% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 54% 44%
 
5.7 7.2 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 3.7 3.8
3.2 3.2 2 Corners against (avg) C A 7.5 6.6 5.4
2.6 2.6 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.5 2.6
2 2 1 Red cards R C 1 3 4
 
10.5 12.6 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 8.2 8.4
4.3 5.4 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 3.4 3.4
29% 27% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 56% 32% 38%
 
7 5.7 7 Shots against (avg) S A 12.5 12.5 10.7
3 2.5 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.1 4.5
Key stats in Premier Liga this season:
  • Tuzla City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Tuzla City have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Premier Liga
  • Tuzla City have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Premier Liga
  • Tuzla City have the most matches over the total-line (15) in Premier Liga
  • Zeljeznicar have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Zeljeznicar have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Zeljeznicar haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 25 19 3 3 50 12 13 11 1 1 32 6 12 8 2 2 18 6 38 60
2 Borac Banja Luka 25 13 4 8 28 23 13 9 1 3 18 11 12 4 3 5 10 12 5 43
3 Velez 25 10 10 5 29 22 13 6 6 1 22 13 12 4 4 4 7 9 7 40
4 Siroki Brijeg 24 11 7 6 30 25 12 8 3 1 17 7 12 3 4 5 13 18 5 40
5 Zeljeznicar 25 11 6 8 31 26 13 6 4 3 19 12 12 5 2 5 12 14 5 39
6 Sarajevo 25 10 6 9 32 33 13 6 4 3 18 14 12 4 2 6 14 19 -1 36
7 Tuzla City 25 7 6 12 32 37 12 4 3 5 18 13 13 3 3 7 14 24 -5 27
8 Posusje 25 7 6 12 22 34 12 4 3 5 15 14 13 3 3 7 7 20 -12 27
9 Leotar 25 7 5 13 22 34 12 6 3 3 15 6 13 1 2 10 7 28 -12 26
10 Sloboda Tuzla 25 5 9 11 24 29 12 5 3 4 19 14 13 0 6 7 5 15 -5 24
11 Igman Konjic 24 6 6 12 28 39 12 5 3 4 14 11 12 1 3 8 14 28 -11 24
12 Sloga Doboj 25 6 6 13 31 45 12 5 3 4 17 14 13 1 3 9 14 31 -14 24

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.