Soccer betting preview: Pardubice welcomes České Budějovice in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Czech Republic Fortuna Liga
Competition: Sun 17.January
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Dolícek (7500 seats)

There should be a significant difference in quality between these teams based on table positions so far, with Pardubice leading České Budějovice by 7 points.

Insights:
  • Pardubice have not yet lost a game at home.
  • České Budějovice have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

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Pardubice form and stats

Pardubice are steadily winning Fortuna Liga games and points here at Stadion Dolícek. 4 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 7 games. In general it's been a long time since Pardubice tasted defeat here at Stadion Dolícek, as they have taken at least one point from their last 14 home games in the league.

Nothing to worry about in defence for Pardubice, as their goalkeeper Marek Bohac has completely shut out the opponents for 190 minutes in the Fortuna Liga.

A good away victory last time out for Pardubice, who won 2-0 against Karvina (placed 10th). In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Karvina.

This is expected to be a close game, with Pardubice perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Pardubice as a small favourite), we find five games. Pardubice has won two of these, drawn two and lost one.

The Pardubice fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 7 matches. Pardubice are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadion Dolícek in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 7 matches.

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České Budějovice form and stats

2-4-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for České Budějovice in their Fortuna Liga matches away.

There might be some fixture complaints from Budějovice as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Fortuna Liga match against Jablonec (1-2). Prior to that match, the Budějovice manager D. Horejs faced defeat when travelling to Jablonec and losing 1-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by České Budějovice in our archives, and the results are: two wins for České Budějovice, two draws and two defeats.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Příbram in just three days.

Budějovice are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 13 times in 7 away games so far. Budějovice have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last six games between these two teams, there's two Pardubice victories, three draws and one České Budějovice win. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

PardubiceD. Huf
D. Huf
5 goals
České BudějoviceP. Brandner
P. Brandner
5 goals
PardubiceE. Tischler
E. Tischler
4 goals

Pardubice missing players

České Budějovice missing players

Pardubice České Budějovice
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 7 2 Played P 3 7 13
6 4 2 Won W 1 2 3
4 3 0 Drew D 1 4 6
4 0 0 Lost L 1 1 4
15 10 3 Scored S 6 13 17
15 4 1 Conceded C 5 10 22
93% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 85%
71% 71% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 85%
36% 43% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 71% 62%
7% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 57% 38%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 14% 15%
43% 57% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 86% 69%
36% 43% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 15%
29% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 31%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 2.3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.7 2.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
7.8 7.6 8 Shots (avg) S ( 8.7 8 7.3
2.9 3 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4.3 3.5
38% 48% 60% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 43% 37%
Key stats in Fortuna Liga this season:
  • Pardubice have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Pardubice have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Pardubice have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • České Budějovice have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Slavia Praha 13 11 2 0 36 4 7 6 1 0 18 3 6 5 1 0 18 1 32 35
2 Jablonec 14 9 2 3 26 15 7 6 0 1 14 6 7 3 2 2 12 9 11 29
3 Sparta Praha 13 9 1 3 29 18 7 4 1 2 13 10 6 5 0 1 16 8 11 28
4 Sigma Olomouc 14 5 7 2 20 15 7 3 3 1 12 7 7 2 4 1 8 8 5 22
5 Pardubice 14 6 4 4 15 15 7 4 3 0 10 4 7 2 1 4 5 11 0 22
6 Slovacko 13 6 3 4 23 15 7 3 2 2 14 6 6 3 1 2 9 9 8 21
7 Baník Ostrava 12 6 3 3 18 10 5 2 2 1 7 4 7 4 1 2 11 6 8 21
8 Slovan Liberec 13 6 3 4 20 15 7 4 2 1 15 6 6 2 1 3 5 9 5 21
9 Viktoria Plzeň 14 6 2 6 28 21 7 5 0 2 19 6 7 1 2 4 9 15 7 20
10 Karvina 14 5 5 4 14 18 7 1 3 3 6 12 7 4 2 1 8 6 -4 20
11 Zlin 13 5 1 7 15 17 6 2 0 4 7 9 7 3 1 3 8 8 -2 16
12 Teplice 14 5 1 8 16 28 6 2 1 3 5 7 8 3 0 5 11 21 -12 16
13 České Budějovice 13 3 6 4 17 22 6 1 2 3 4 12 7 2 4 1 13 10 -5 15
14 Bohemians 1905 13 4 2 7 16 18 6 4 1 1 12 6 7 0 1 6 4 12 -2 14
15 Mlada Boleslav 14 2 3 9 16 28 7 2 1 4 12 14 7 0 2 5 4 14 -12 9
16 Zbrojovka Brno 14 2 3 9 12 27 8 1 2 5 7 16 6 1 1 4 5 11 -15 9
17 Příbram 13 2 3 8 10 28 7 2 1 4 6 13 6 0 2 4 4 15 -18 9
18 Opava 12 1 3 8 10 27 6 1 2 3 6 13 6 0 1 5 4 14 -17 6