Delightful dogfight as daring Rijeka duel with determined Slaven Koprivnica

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Competition: Croatia 1. HNL
Competition: Sat 25.February
Match begins: 17:10 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion HNK Rijeka (8279 seats)

A traditional home win, the away team steals the points or a score draw? It's all possible when the mid-table sides Rijeka and Slaven Koprivnica clash at Stadion HNK Rijeka.

Insights:
  • Slaven Koprivnica have the most clean sheets (7) away 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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Rijeka form and stats

With 2 1. HNL wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats from their home games, Rijeka are certainly not brimming with confidence. The happy trend is alive also outside their own arena as Rijeka has won their last four matches.

Rijeka are returning here after visiting Lokomotiva Zagreb and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Frigan and Obregón scored the goal(s). Manager Cosmi felt very clever after Obregón scored the winning goal against Lokomotiva Zagreb, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 68th minute. Defender Dilaver got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.41/10. Dilaver won 4 of 6 duels.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Gorica in a game that was won 2-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Rijeka handle that role? We have found 6 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

Rijeka aren't scoring a lot here at Stadion HNK Rijeka in the league, with only {9 goals} from 10 games. Rijeka have conceded 16 from these games. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Slaven Koprivnica form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most clean sheets (7) away in 1. HNL, on their 1. HNL travels is 4 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats.

The attacking players of Koprivnica have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 238 minutes.

Slaven Koprivnica's previous game was their home loss versus Sibenik (0-1). The attacker Manaj got a match rating of 8.03 in that game. Manaj hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

A 0-0 draw at Osijek's stadium before that.

We have checked recent matches where Slaven Koprivnica have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 11 games were 3 victories, 2 draws and 6 defeats.

A tale of few goals? 8 of this club's last 10 league fixtures have seen zero, one or two goals.

After this away game Slaven Koprivnica return home for a Croatia Cup game against Rudes. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The visitors have scored 8 goals from 11 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.

Head 2 Head

The participants have faced each other previously this season, with the match result Slaven Koprivnica - Rijeka 2-1 registered in the official records. Álvarez (Rijeka) was shown a red card when these teams last played each other. Head-to-head statistics (for the preceeding ten meetings): Rijeka won six games, two matches ended with a draw and Slaven Koprivnica got two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / four.

Top Goalscorers

RijekaM. Frigan
M. Frigan
7 goals
Slaven KoprivnicaA. Hoxha
A. Hoxha
6 goals
RijekaJ. Obregón Rojas
J. Obregón Rojas
3 goals

Rijeka missing players

Slaven Koprivnica missing players

Rijeka Slaven Koprivnica
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 10 1 Played P 1 11 22
8 2 0 Won W 0 4 7
4 2 0 Drew D 1 4 8
10 6 1 Lost L 0 3 7
26 9 0 Scored S 0 8 17
31 16 1 Conceded C 0 11 29
95% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 73% 77%
77% 60% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 36% 50%
50% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 18% 36%
14% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 23%
5% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 14%
50% 30% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 27% 36%
27% 30% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 64% 45%
27% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 100% 36% 41%
 
4.1 4 4 Corners for (avg) C F 5 3.4 3.8
4.3 4.1 1 Corners against (avg) C A 2 4.6 4
2.9 3.2 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.9 2.5
5 3 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
10.9 11.1 8 Shots (avg) S ( 4 7.7 8.8
3.7 3.7 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.3 3.2
32% 24% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 22% 24%
 
12 10.8 5 Shots against (avg) S A 12 14.1 11.5
4.3 4.3 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.9 4.3
Key stats in 1. HNL this season:
  • Slaven Koprivnica have the most clean sheets (7) away 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 21 16 4 1 55 20 11 10 1 0 32 10 10 6 3 1 23 10 35 52
2 Hajduk Split 22 13 5 4 42 27 11 8 2 1 25 12 11 5 3 3 17 15 15 44
3 Osijek 22 10 5 7 32 24 11 6 5 0 17 7 11 4 0 7 15 17 8 35
4 Istra 1961 21 8 6 7 21 20 11 5 3 3 11 8 10 3 3 4 10 12 1 30
5 Slaven Koprivnica 22 7 8 7 17 29 11 3 4 4 9 18 11 4 4 3 8 11 -12 29
6 Rijeka 22 8 4 10 26 31 10 2 2 6 9 16 12 6 2 4 17 15 -5 28
7 Varazdin 22 7 6 9 26 33 12 3 4 5 13 19 10 4 2 4 13 14 -7 27
8 Lokomotiva Zagreb 22 7 4 11 30 33 11 5 2 4 16 13 11 2 2 7 14 20 -3 25
9 Sibenik 22 3 10 9 16 27 11 1 3 7 7 18 11 2 7 2 9 9 -11 19
10 Gorica 22 1 6 15 12 33 10 1 3 6 4 13 12 0 3 9 8 20 -21 9