Lokomotiva Zagreb host Varaždin for another entertaining 1. HNL game here at Stadion Kranjčevićeva.
Lokomotiva Zagreb and Varaždin should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Lokomotiva Zagreb form and stats
The first 1. HNL game here at Stadion Kranjčevićeva resulted in a draw. Last season Lokomotiva Zagreb's home game statistics were 8 victories, 4 draws and 6 defeats from 18 games.
Lokomotiva faced defeat in their previous match, away at Gorica (0-1). Heartbreak for Lokomotiva Zagreb in their last match as Gorica's Blummel scored the winning goal deep into overtime. Mersinaj was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.42 out of 10. The defender Mersinaj won 4 of 7 duels.
Before that, Lokomotiva Zagreb drew at home versus Istra 1961.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Lokomotiva Zagreb's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 4 games, won 0 matches, drawn 3 and lost 1.
Early season league goal statistics from Lokomotiva Zagreb's 1 home game: {1 goals}, 1 conceded.
Varaždin form and stats
The visitors settled for one point in their first 1. HNL away game of the season. During their previous season 18 away games resulted in 6 wins, 4 draws and 8 defeats.
Varaždin played 2-2 against Slaven Koprivnica in their previous match. It looked so good for Varaždin vs Slaven Koprivnica, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw. Šego got a match rating of 7.65 in that game, top player of the team. Šego served one assist and hit one key pass.
Before that, Varaždin travelled to Gorica and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.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 Varaždin playing away, we found 4 games. Results were 1 away win, 1 draw and 2 home wins.
It's early days yet, but Varaždin has scored 1 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Varaždin have pulled off a sequence of 4 consecutive games without defeat (1-3-0) when playing Lokomotiva.Top Goalscorers
  F. Brodić 2 goals |   V. Bubanja 1 goals |  D. Mitrovski 1 goals |
Lokomotiva Zagreb missing players
Varaždin missing players
| Lokomotiva Zagreb | Varaždin | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5 | 9 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1.5 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 16 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 15 | 14 |
| 3.5 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 14% | 17% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 30% |
| 9.5 | 7 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 23 | 18.5 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| Lokomotiva Zagreb | Last season | Varaždin | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 36 | 18 | Played | P | 18 | 36 | ||
| 11 | 8 | Won | W | 6 | 12 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 10 | ||
| 15 | 6 | Lost | L | 8 | 14 | ||
| 45 | 25 | Scored | S | 21 | 41 | ||
| 50 | 22 | Conceded | C | 28 | 51 | ||
| 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 89% | ||
| 72% | 78% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 78% | ||
| 61% | 61% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 56% | 50% | ||
| 28% | 22% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 22% | 25% | ||
| 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 6% | 8% | ||
| 58% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 58% | ||
| 28% | 22% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 25% | ||
| 28% | 11% | Failed to Score | F T | 22% | 28% | ||
| 4.5 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.2 | 3.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 5.3 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.9 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 5 | ||
| 11.9 | 13.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 11.3 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.2 | ||
| 29% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 27% | ||
| 11 | 10.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.6 | 12.7 | ||
| 4.6 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 4.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Osijek | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 | Hajduk Split | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Gorica | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Rijeka | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | Dinamo Zagreb | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Varaždin | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 8 | Istra 1961 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 1 |
| 9 | Slaven Koprivnica | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 1 |
| 10 | Rudes | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -5 | 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 | Dinamo Zagreb | 36 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 81 | 28 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 29 | 16 | 53 | 81 |
| 2 | Hajduk Split | 36 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 65 | 41 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 39 | 18 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 23 | 24 | 71 |
| 3 | Osijek | 36 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 46 | 41 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 21 | 13 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 25 | 28 | 5 | 50 |
| 4 | Rijeka | 36 | 14 | 7 | 15 | 44 | 44 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 23 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 21 | 0 | 49 |
| 5 | Istra 1961 | 36 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 36 | 38 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 27 | -2 | 46 |
| 6 | Varaždin | 36 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 41 | 51 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 23 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 28 | -10 | 46 |
| 7 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 36 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 45 | 50 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 22 | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 28 | -5 | 43 |
| 8 | Slaven Koprivnica | 36 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 27 | 46 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -19 | 43 |
| 9 | Gorica | 36 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 36 | 50 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 30 | -14 | 32 |
| 10 | Sibenik | 36 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 24 | 56 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 33 | 18 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 23 | -32 | 27 |
