1. HNL: Osijek receive Rijeka in what should be an exciting football game. Here's a thorough preview!
- Osijek have the most dropped points from leading position (19) in 1. HNL
- Rijeka have the fewest points from losing position (2) in 1. HNL
Rijeka are staying put at 4th place whatever happens for the rest of the season.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Osijek form and stats
All-inclusive 1. HNL results playing at home this season for Osijek are 7-9-2 (wins-draws-losses). Two draws in a row at home now for Osijek.
The spoils were shared in Osijek's previous game, also at home. Visiting Rijeka (placed 4th) travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline. A painful moment in the game against Rijeka was the missed penalty kick from Miérez in the 90th minute. A goal there would obviously have changed the match and probably the outcome. Cheberko, defender, was given a rating of 7.45/10 in that game, top of the team. Cheberko won 4 of 5 duels.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Sibenik and winning 4-1.Low on goals? In this team's last 20 league games, 15 have seen two goals or less.
Osijek has scored 21 league goals at home this season, in 18 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Osijek are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadion Gradski vrt in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 13 from 18 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Rijeka form and stats
Playing away, Rijeka have won 8 games, drawn 3 and suffered 7 defeats in the 1. HNL this season.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Osijek (placed 3rd) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1. Goalkeeper Labrović got the top player rating of the team with 7.84/10. Labrović saved a penalty.
Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Dinamo Zagreb.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 4 similar matches played by Rijeka in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Rijeka, 2 draws and 0 defeats.
The visiting Rijeka have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 23 goals from 18 games. 21 goals have been conceded by Rijeka in these games.
Head 2 Head
Osijek have put together a streak of 4 consecutive games without losing (1-3-0) when playing Rijeka.Osijek - Rijeka 1-1 was the scoreline in these contenders' previous h2h match, earlier this season. The match official pulled out his red card when these teams last played each other, and the culprit was Galesic (Rijeka).
Top Goalscorers
  M. Frigan 13 goals |  R. Mierez 12 goals |  M. Caktaš 8 goals |
Osijek missing players
Rijeka missing players
| Osijek | Rijeka | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 36 | 18 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 18 | 36 |
| 13 | 7 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 8 | 14 |
| 11 | 9 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 12 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 46 | 21 | 5 | Scored | S | 3 | 23 | 44 |
| 41 | 13 | 3 | Conceded | C | 7 | 21 | 44 |
| 89% | 78% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 97% |
| 69% | 61% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 83% | 75% |
| 42% | 28% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | 42% |
| 25% | 17% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 17% | 17% |
| 11% | 6% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 3% |
| 47% | 44% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | 47% |
| 33% | 44% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 22% | 28% |
| 31% | 33% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 22% | 28% |
| 4.1 | 4.7 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.8 |
| 4.2 | 3.6 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.1 |
| 2 | 1.9 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 12.1 | 13.4 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 11.2 | 12.2 |
| 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 28% | 23% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 34% | 30% |
| 10 | 8.8 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.2 | 12.1 | 11.4 |
| 3.8 | 3.6 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4 | 4.1 |
- Osijek have the most dropped points from leading position (19) in 1. HNL
- Rijeka have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Rijeka have the fewest points from losing position (2) in 1. HNL
- Rijeka haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | Dinamo Zagreb | 35 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 77 | 27 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 48 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 29 | 16 | 50 | 78 |
| 2 | Hajduk Split | 35 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 62 | 41 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 36 | 18 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 23 | 21 | 68 |
| 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 | Varazdin | 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 | 35 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 35 | 46 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 26 | -11 | 32 |
| 10 | Sibenik | 35 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 53 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 33 | 17 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 20 | -29 | 27 |
