National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Nehaj or Gorica that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Nehaj and Gorica.
Nehaj form and stats
Nehaj participated in Croatia Cup the last season, where they reached the preliminary round.Two draws in a row at home now for Nehaj.
The spoils were shared in Nehaj's previous game, also at home. Visiting Pazinka travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Buje (0-3).No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Nehaj had similar winning odds as today, and found two games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew one and lost one. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Nehaj lost one similar game by at least two goals.
Nehaj are traveling soon after this match as the 3. HNL - Zapad match at Naprijed Hreljin awaits in four days.
Gorica form and stats
Gorica's mission in Croatia Cup last season failed in the semi-finals.2-0-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Gorica in their 1. HNL matches away.
Gorica played 1-1 against Hrvatski Dragovoljac in their previous match. Midfielder Kristijan Lovrić was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.43. Lovrić served one assist and hit eight key passes.
Preceding that game was the away 1. HNL victory against Lokomotiva Zagreb with the score of 1-0.Many goals are not expected from the visiting Gorica as they have only managed to score 3 times from 4 away games in the league. 4 goals have been conceded by Gorica in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Nehaj one win, zero draws and Gorica one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  K. Lovrić 3 goals | H. Babec 2 goals | M. Dieye 2 goals |
Nehaj missing players
Gorica missing players
| Nehaj | Gorica | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 6 | 13 | ||
| 23 | 16 | Scored | S | 9 | 25 | ||
| 28 | 15 | Conceded | C | 16 | 39 | ||
| 84% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 68% | ||
| 40% | 43% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 14% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 28% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 12% | ||
| 28% | 43% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 44% | ||
| 44% | 43% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 24% | ||
| 44% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 36% | ||
| 4.8 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 5.1 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.2 | 3.2 | ||
| 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.7 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 15 | 19 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.7 | 10.4 | ||
| 8.2 | 12 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 4.4 | ||
| 15% | 8% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 23% | ||
| 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 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 16 |
| 2 | Hajduk Split | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| 3 | Rijeka | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | Osijek | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 5 | Gorica | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 13 |
| 6 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 7 | Sibenik | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | -3 | 7 |
| 8 | Istra 1961 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | -7 | 6 |
| 9 | Slaven Koprivnica | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 5 |
| 10 | Hrvatski Dragovoljac | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -12 | 4 |