Rijeka will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 11 points behind Osijek.
- Rijeka has the fewest conceded goals (9) in 1. HNL
- Osijek have scored more than double the goals of Rijeka.
It's no vacation for neither Rijeka nor Osijek 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.
Rijeka form and stats
5-0-0 (win-draw-lost) are the 1. HNL numbers at home for Rijeka, who have the fewest conceded goals (9) in 1. HNL, so far this season.
The fans are hoping that Rijeka will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Europa League game against Napoli. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Lokomotiva Zagreb.
Ivan Nevistić had a busy but productive day in the Napoli match. Despite making eight saves the loss could not be prevented.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Rijeka as they are travelling to their away game against Real Sociedad in the Europa League. That match is four days after this one.
Rijeka have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadion HNK Rijeka with 9 goals in 5 league matches. Rijeka have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Osijek form and stats
The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 4 wins, 1 draw and only 1 loss in the 1. HNL.
Osijek play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 4-1 victory visiting Istra 1961 (placed 10th). That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Dinamo Zagreb.
Osijek are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 10 times in 6 away games so far. As opposed to that, Osijek have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Osijek - Rijeka 3-0. Rijeka-Osijek H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Rijeka four wins, Osijek four wins, two draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  R. Mierez 7 goals |   F. Andrijašević 3 goals |  R. Murić 2 goals |
Rijeka missing players
Osijek missing players
| Rijeka | Osijek | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 75% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 75% |
| 50% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 38% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 25% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 38% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.9 | 2.4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.4 | 12 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 13.5 | 12.2 |
| 4.9 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 5.5 | 4.5 |
| 23% | 30% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 30% | 37% |
- Osijek have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Osijek have scored more than double the goals of Rijeka.
- Osijek haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Rijeka has the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in 1. HNL
- Rijeka has the fewest conceded goals (9) in 1. HNL
- Rijeka has the most points (15) at home in 1. HNL
- Rijeka have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Rijeka have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Rijeka have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Rijeka have won all their matches at home so far.
- Rijeka haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 26 |
| 2 | Osijek | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 26 |
| 3 | Gorica | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 22 |
| 4 | Hajduk Split | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 17 |
| 5 | Rijeka | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 15 |
| 6 | Sibenik | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | -4 | 13 |
| 7 | Slaven Koprivnica | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 11 |
| 8 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -10 | 8 |
| 9 | Varazdin | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -11 | 8 |
| 10 | Istra 1961 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 16 | -15 | 8 |