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Competition: Croatia 1. HNL
Competition: Fri 21.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Kranjčevićeva (10850 seats)

Lokomotiva Zagreb are longing to improve their points total at their own ground in this soon-to-be-played fixture versus Šibenik.

Insights:
  • Lokomotiva Zagreb have the most conceded goals (42) in 1. HNL
  • Šibenik have the fewest scored goals (20) in 1. HNL

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Lokomotiva Zagreb form and stats

The story so far in the 1. HNL for Lokomotiva Zagreb at their home stadium (Stadion Kranjčevićeva) is 6 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. When Lokomotiva Zagreb hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Gorica, Slaven Koprivnica and Lokomotiva Zagreb), they have won 2 of 3 matches!

An away draw last time out for Lokomotiva Zagreb, facing Osijek in a game that ended 2-2. The hometeam coach Čabraja made a successful contribution in the game against Osijek, bringing on Kulenović who scored the equalizer in the 2-2 draw. The goalie Čavlina was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.1 out of ten. Čavlina saved a penalty.

Preceding that match was the home game against Dinamo Zagreb that was lost 1-2.

The Lokomotiva fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 19 in 14 matches. Lokomotiva Zagreb have conceded 16 in these home matches. Lokomotiva Zagreb has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

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Šibenik form and stats

Šibenik have only collected 14 points from their away games in the 1. HNL, after 2-8-4 (14 played). It's a growing despair in Šibenik as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

Šibenik aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 180 league minutes without a goal. Kvrzic was the last player to find the net.

Šibenik failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Gorica (placed 10th) that ended with defeat 0-4. Šibenik lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. Mesa got a match rating of 7.44 in that game, top player of the team. Mesa hit two key passes and had 94 successful passes (of 106 total).

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Rijeka wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

Highlight this: 8 of the latest 10 league matches featuring this side have had only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting words).

After this away game Šibenik return home for a 1. HNL game against Slaven Koprivnica. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The visitors have scored 9 goals from 14 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. It's not easy to score on Šibenik as they have only conceded 12 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

This happened when the participants played each other previously this campaign; Šibenik - Lokomotiva Zagreb 0-4. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Lokomotiva Zagreb victories, three draws and two Šibenik wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Lokomotiva ZagrebS. Kulenovic
S. Kulenovic
8 goals
Lokomotiva ZagrebA. Ibrahim
A. Ibrahim
6 goals
LokomotivaS. Goričan
S. Goričan
5 goals

Lokomotiva Zagreb missing players

Šibenik missing players

Lokomotiva Zagreb Šibenik
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 3 Played P 4 14 29
9 6 2 Won W 2 2 4
7 3 0 Drew D 2 8 12
13 5 1 Lost L 0 4 13
39 19 3 Scored S 4 9 20
42 16 2 Conceded C 0 12 38
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 64% 76%
76% 79% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 25% 50% 66%
66% 57% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 29% 41%
28% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 7% 14%
14% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 3%
66% 71% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 29% 41%
24% 21% 33% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 31%
21% 7% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 57% 52%
 
4.3 5 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 4.4 4.1
4.3 4.4 4.7 Corners against (avg) C A 7.5 6.5 4.6
2.4 2.1 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 2.2
4 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
11.9 13.6 15 Shots (avg) S ( 8.8 8.5 8.7
4.5 4.9 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.3 3.5
30% 28% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 20% 20%
 
10.7 9.9 6.3 Shots against (avg) S A 16 14.4 12.4
4.6 3.4 2.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.4 5.2
Key stats in 1. HNL this season:
  • Lokomotiva Zagreb have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Šibenik have scored away.
  • Lokomotiva Zagreb have the most conceded goals (42) in 1. HNL
  • Lokomotiva Zagreb haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Šibenik have the fewest conceded goals (12) away in 1. HNL
  • Šibenik have the fewest scored goals (20) in 1. HNL
  • Šibenik have the fewest scored goals in the second half (11) in 1. HNL
  • Šibenik have the the worst goal difference (-18) in 1. HNL

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Dinamo Zagreb 29 20 6 3 69 26 15 13 2 0 42 11 14 7 4 3 27 15 43 66
2 Hajduk Split 29 16 6 7 53 41 14 9 3 2 31 18 15 7 3 5 22 23 12 54
3 Rijeka 29 12 5 12 35 35 15 5 3 7 16 19 14 7 2 5 19 16 0 41
4 Osijek 29 10 9 10 36 33 15 6 7 2 19 12 14 4 2 8 17 21 3 39
5 Varazdin 29 10 9 10 34 39 15 5 5 5 17 20 14 5 4 5 17 19 -5 39
6 Istra 1961 29 9 10 10 28 31 14 6 4 4 12 10 15 3 6 6 16 21 -3 37
7 Slaven Koprivnica 29 9 10 10 22 37 14 4 6 4 13 20 15 5 4 6 9 17 -15 37
8 Lokomotiva Zagreb 29 9 7 13 39 42 14 6 3 5 19 16 15 3 4 8 20 26 -3 34
9 Šibenik 29 4 12 13 20 38 15 2 4 9 11 26 14 2 8 4 9 12 -18 24
10 Gorica 29 5 8 16 27 41 14 4 4 6 13 18 15 1 4 10 14 23 -14 23