Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Split & Dinamo Zagreb face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Croatia Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
The visiting Dinamo Zagreb played their last game only four days ago, a 1. HNL match.
Split form and stats
Split participated in Croatia Cup the last season, where they reached the round of 32.The Split crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-5 to Zagora here at Stadion Park mladeži. Split were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Heartbreak before that as Split lost 1-4 at Vodice's place.The match schedule is unforgiving for Split as they have a new game in only four days, a 3. HNL - Jug match thankfully also at home. GOSK Kastel Gomilica are visiting.
Dinamo Zagreb form and stats
Last season their Croatia Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 5 wins, 3 draws and only 1 loss in the 1. HNL.
Impressive finishing from Ristovski secured the home win 1-0 against Istra 1961 in their previous game. Ristovski was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.02. The defender Ristovski scored one goal and won 3 of 4 duels.
Ahead of that match was the 1. HNL away draw versus Slaven Koprivnica that ended 1-1.Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Dinamo Zagreb given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 8 matches with 8 wins as expected, 0 draws and 0 surprise home wins. The favourites won 6 of these games by at least two goals.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Dinamo are regular goalscorers on their travels.
Head 2 Head
Dinamo Zagreb have put together a streak of 8 consecutive matches without losing (7-1-0) when facing Split.Top Goalscorers
  B. Petković 8 goals |  J. Drmic 5 goals |  D. Špikić 4 goals |
Split missing players
Dinamo Zagreb missing players
| Split | Dinamo Zagreb | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 9 | Won | W | 5 | 15 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 10 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 5 | ||
| 32 | 21 | Scored | S | 20 | 50 | ||
| 33 | 11 | Conceded | C | 13 | 26 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 16% | ||
| 48% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 16% | ||
| 4.8 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 4.4 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.4 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 14.3 | 14.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 12.9 | ||
| 6 | 6.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 5.9 | ||
| 25% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 35% | ||
| 9.7 | 9.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.4 | 11.1 | ||
| 4 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4 | ||
| 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 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 52 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 33 | 49 |
| 2 | Hajduk Split | 21 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 40 | 26 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 41 |
| 3 | Osijek | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 32 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 35 |
| 4 | Slaven Koprivnica | 21 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 28 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -11 | 29 |
| 5 | Istra 1961 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 27 |
| 6 | Varazdin | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 25 | 30 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | -5 | 27 |
| 7 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 29 | 31 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 20 | -2 | 25 |
| 8 | Rijeka | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 24 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 14 | -6 | 25 |
| 9 | Sibenik | 21 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 27 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -12 | 16 |
| 10 | Gorica | 21 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 11 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 18 | -20 | 9 |
